Cody Ray

Cody Ray is an accomplished engineering leader with extensive experience in platform engineering and DevOps, currently serving as the Director of Engineering at Confluent since October 2017. Key achievements include bootstrapping a Service Foundations team, developing a service-runtime framework in Golang, and leading initiatives to enhance testing practices across the organization. Previously, Cody held positions at PEAK6 Investments, where significant contributions to digital assets and cloud migration were made, and at Signal™, where a scalable distributed stats infrastructure was built. Cody's educational background includes a Master's and Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University, along with early experience in leadership roles at Drexel Smart House and technical positions in various organizations.