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Isaac Corbrey

Isaac Corbrey

Software Engineer

Software Engineer at Sweetwater Sound

Fort WayneIndianaUnited States🇺🇸
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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: 4

Sweetwater Sound

Full-time · Hybrid

Apr 2026 - Present

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

ReactSoftware EngineeringSystems DesignGoogle CloudGoogle PubSub

University of Saint Francis

Fort Wayne, Indiana, US · On-site

Sep 2023 - Present
  • 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.
TeachingC#Rust

Do It Best

Hybrid

Jan 2024 - Apr 2026
  • 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.

Aptera

Fort Wayne, Indiana, US · Hybrid

Jul 2019 - Nov 2023
  • 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.
ReactProgressive Web AppsIndexedDBLocalizationAccessibilityData IntegrityASP.NETExpress.jsMongoDBTest-Driven Development

Projects: 3

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.
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.

Feb 2025

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Publications: 15

Isaac's Ramblings14 articles
Sep 2026
Sep 2026

Notes from JJ Con 2026

isaaccorbrey.com

Sep 2026
Apr 2026
Isaac's Notes1 article

Skills: 39

Technical

.NET FrameworkAccessibilityApache KafkaASP.NETAstroAT ProtocolAureliaC#
CI/CDData IntegrityDockerDomain ModellingExpress.jsGoogle CloudIndexedDBJavaJavaScriptKubernetesLocalizationMicrosoft AzureMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBPostgreSQLProgressive Web AppsReactRustSoftware EngineeringSvelteSystems DesignTailwind CSSTest-Driven DevelopmentTypeScriptVersion Control

Creative

Architectural Design

Interpersonal

Conflict ResolutionMentoringTeaching

Community

Community Building

Other

Google PubSub

Education: 2

BSc, Computer Science

Aug 2018 - May 2022

Worked with C#, C++, Pep/9 Assembly, and Python to explore programming fundamentals and methodologies.

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: 1

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: 1

Open Source

Community Leader

Jul 2025 - Present

Languages: 1

English(Native or bilingual)

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