Emjek Cordover
Staff Software Engineer at Etsy
Easton, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolEmjek Cordover is a Staff Software Engineer at Etsy with 12 years of experience blending software engineering, law, and public-facing program management. He progressed through multiple engineering roles at Etsy since 2016 and brings a systems-oriented, policy-savvy perspective shaped by prior legal practice and hands-on product and events work. Comfortable shifting between high-level architecture and detailed implementation, he excels at turning complex, cross-disciplinary problems into pragmatic, auditable solutions. Driven by a lifelong curiosity—originally the childhood goal to "know everything"—he pairs intellectual breadth with a preference for precise, well-documented outcomes. Based in Easton, Connecticut, he also leverages formal legal training to navigate regulatory and compliance tradeoffs that often accompany large-scale platform work.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Laws (BSc-LLB), Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Laws (BSc-LLB) at University of TasmaniaRecurse Center
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Github Skills (99)
python10
chat10
gtk10
authenticator10
collaboration10
javascript10
django10
zulip10
electron10
apache10
slack10
react-native10
statusbar10
hmac10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mjec/khefin
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
A simple way to generate password-proteceted secrets from a FIDO2 authenticator with the hmac-secret extension
Contributions:8 releases, 1 review, 115 commits in 2 years 8 months
authenticatorhmacfido2-authenticatorsecurity-tools
mjec/rc-niceties
Aug 2016 - Feb 2021
End of batch niceties for the Recurse Center
Contributions:1 review, 46 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 7 months
centerrecurse-centerbatch
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