# Isaac Corbrey (@isaaccorbrey.com)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/isaaccorbrey.com
Headline: Software Engineer

## About

Full-stack and systems engineer with 14 years of experience who thinks about memory semantics for fun. I work across the stack, from distributed data pipelines to deliberate frontend experiences, with a particular pull towards domains that reward precision and a drive to make other developers' lives better.

## Career

- **Software Engineer at Sweetwater Sound** (Apr 2026 - Present)
  Full-time · Hybrid
  Designed and shipped a realtime order-batching system handling concurrent, computationally expensive batching requests sent over Google PubSub, reducing time-to-compute from multiple minutes to <10 seconds
- **Adjunct Professor at University of Saint Francis** (Sep 2023 - Present)
  Fort Wayne, Indiana, US · On-site
  \- Taught classes of 8-15 students introductory procedural programming and OOP principles in C#, focusing on algorithmic thinking and logical correctness.
  \- Taught a Rust topics class introducing students to systems programming and encouraging them to think more about memory semantics and type invariance.
- **Software Engineer at Do It Best** (Jan 2024 - Apr 2026)
  Hybrid
  \- Supported and maintained a suite of more than 20 legacy applications (written in C#, JavaScript, and TypeScript) critical to corporate operations during the onboarding of over 3,500 new co-op members.
  \- Ensured the success of a high-stakes ERP go-live across a suite of legacy applications, sustaining critical operations through an extended hypercare period.
  \- Maintained and built onto an extensive network of over 4,000 Kafka producers, consumers, and Streams applications hosted in Kubernetes that were responsible for syndicating data between over 150 production MSSQL databases.
- **Software Engineer at Aptera** (Jul 2019 - Nov 2023)
  Fort Wayne, Indiana, US · Hybrid
  \- Designed, built, and maintained a specialized React PWA for data collection in low-connectivity environments for a global userbase, with particular focus on data integrity and internationalization.
  \- Maintained a quoting and booking application for trucking logistics using React, Express, and MongoDB.
  \- Reduced unit testing runtimes by a factor of 12x from >15 mins to <2 mins.

## Projects

- **isaaccorbrey.com** — https://isaaccorbrey.com (Apr 2024 - Present)
  Personal site and ATProto publishing pipeline
  
  \- Designed a low-friction publishing system using dictation and LLM reflow capabilities that made consistently thinking in public sustainable.
  \- Drove tangible ecosystem contributions: upstream bug fixes, collaborations, and unsolicited reader outreach.
- **bevy_hex_coords** — https://tangled.org/isaaccorbrey.com/bevy_hex_coords (Apr 2026)
  A library that provides hexagonal coordinate utilities, with accurate vertex and edge placement and rotation, for the Bevy game engine. Derived from first principles, high performance and very space efficient.
- **scream_cypher** — https://tangled.org/isaaccorbrey.com/scream_cypher (Feb 2025)
  Áâa̡ȃa̦a̯ā aâa̱ a̱áa̡ȃa̦a̯ā ǎáããaa̋áã äãảâa̋ āa̰á ÃA̡ȂÁAǍ A̡A̦A̯A̰ÁȂ! An implementation of the Scream Cypher from XKCD 3054.

## Publications

- On the Art of Finishing Things — isaaccorbrey.com (Sep 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings/on-the-art-of-finishing-things
- Notes from Git Merge 2026 — isaaccorbrey.com (Sep 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings/notes-from-git-merge-2026
- Notes from JJ Con 2026 — isaaccorbrey.com (Sep 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings/notes-from-jj-con-2026
- On tests and perceptual domain modelling — isaaccorbrey.com (May 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblingson-tests-and-perceptual-domain-modeling
- A job postmortem, circa 2026 — isaaccorbrey.com (Apr 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings/a-job-postmortem-circa-2026
- Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit — isaaccorbrey.com (Apr 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit
- Open source funding, a bimodal distribution — isaaccorbrey.com (Feb 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings/open-source-funding-a-bimodal-distribution
- Webrings as collective OAuth — isaaccorbrey.com (Feb 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings/webrings-as-collective-oauth
- Standard.site backlinks for Margin annotations — isaaccorbrey.com (Feb 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings/standard-site-backlinks-for-margin-annotations
- A thought about releases on Tangled — isaaccorbrey.com (Feb 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings/a-thought-about-releases-on-tangled
- Parenthood is exhausting, but I don't regret a second of it — isaaccorbrey.com (Feb 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings/parenthood-is-exhausting
- A growing sense of disconnection — isaaccorbrey.com (Feb 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings/a-growing-sense-of-disconnection
- First thoughts on integrating with standard.site — isaaccorbrey.com (Feb 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings/first-thoughts-on-integrating-with-standard-site
- On database migrations and workflow friction — isaaccorbrey.com (Feb 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings/on-database-migrations-and-workflow-friction
- How accessible to LLMs is Jujutsu? — isaaccorbrey.com (Feb 2026) https://isaaccorbrey.com/ramblings/how-accessible-to-llms-is-jujutsu

## Skills

### Technical
- .NET Framework
- Accessibility
- Apache Kafka
- ASP.NET
- Astro
- AT Protocol
- Aurelia
- C#
- CI/CD
- Data Integrity
- Docker
- Domain Modelling
- Express.js
- Google Cloud
- IndexedDB
- Java
- JavaScript
- Kubernetes
- Localization
- Microsoft Azure
- Microsoft SQL Server
- MongoDB
- PostgreSQL
- Progressive Web Apps
- React
- Rust
- Software Engineering
- Svelte
- Systems Design
- Tailwind CSS
- Test-Driven Development
- TypeScript
- Version Control
### Creative
- Architectural Design
### Interpersonal
- Conflict Resolution
- Mentoring
- Teaching
### Community
- Community Building
### Other
- Google PubSub

## Education

- **Indiana Institute of Technology** — BSc, Computer Science (Aug 2018 - May 2022)
  Worked with C#, C++, Pep/9 Assembly, and Python to explore programming fundamentals and methodologies.
- **Indiana Institute of Technology** — Minor, Mathematics (Aug 2018 - May 2022)
  Explored linear algebra, graph theory, numerical methods, discrete structures, and other mathematical concepts to discover applications in software development.

## Awards

- 1st Place — Indiana State CCDC (Jan 2019)
  Worked with Linux, Windows, and networking specialists to combat active red teams and maintain 4 nines of uptime in cyberattack simulations. Linux and reverse engineering specialist.

## Involvement

### Open Source
- Jujutsu (jj) (Jul 2025 - Present)
  Community Leader 
  Skills: Community Building, Conflict Resolution, Rust, Architectural Design

## Languages

- English (native)

## Links

- other: https://github.com/icorbrey
- other: https://tangled.org/isaaccorbrey.com
- other: https://isaaccorbrey.com
- other: https://ko-fi.com/icorbrey
- bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/isaaccorbrey.com
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/icorbrey