Cory Wood
Automation Engineer
Oceanside, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCory Wood is an Automation Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing and automating Windows and cloud deployments using PowerShell, DSC, Azure, and Active Directory. He has driven infrastructure and deployment projects at Netgain and supported complex build-and-release pipelines at Rockstar Games, combining operational leadership with practical scripting to save hours of manual work. An active contributor to the dsccommunity/ActiveDirectoryDsc project, he improved DSC resources, added forest-trust functionality, and wrote unit tests to harden AD automation. Based in Oceanside, CA, he pairs a background in network modeling with a penchant for removing duplication and improving maintainability, often surfacing small tooling fixes that prevent recurring incidents.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (A.A.), Associate of Arts (A.A.) at Anoka Ramsey Community CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Network Modeling and Simulation, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Network Modeling and Simulation at St. Cloud State University
Github Skills (10)
unit-testing10
powershell10
active-directory10
dsc10
system-configuration10
autoconfiguration10
testing10
automation9
automations9
debugging8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dsccommunity/ActiveDirectoryDsc
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
This module contains DSC resources for deployment and configuration of Active Directory Domain Services.
Role in this project:
Back-end & QA Engineer
Back-end & QA EngineerContributions:15 commits, 7 PRs, 10 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Cory primarily focused on enhancing and testing PowerShell DSC resources for Active Directory domain services. They implemented new functionality for creating forest trusts and removed duplicate code within the resources. The user also created unit tests for the `xWaitForADDomain` resource, ensuring its reliability and functionality. Furthermore, they addressed conflicts and improved code formatting for better readability.
active-directorydsc-resourcesdscactivedirectory
corydwood/MicrosoftPartnerCenterAPI
Aug 2016 - Sep 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 4 years
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