Courtney Hurt

About Courtney Hurt

I am looking to build products with a focus on quality, automation, communication, and continuous integration during the development lifecycle. Resume: http://courtneyhurt.xyz

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer Developer Experience

   Checkr, Inc.

   Jun 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Developer Experience Engineer and Tech Lead building tooling and infrastructure that let hundreds of engineers ship faster with confidence. I focus on platforms that eliminate bottlenecks at scale.Cut monolith CI pipeline time by 58%(1 hour → 25 minutes) through build tuning and intelligent test sharding, saving thousands of engineering hours annually.Created the AI Developer platform — centralized workflows, MCP servers, and automation that bring consistent, high-quality assistance to every developer tool.Built the Dev CLI with 42+ commands that simulate entire CI stages, validate configs, and wrap every pipeline script in an interactive local experience so engineers catch failures in 5–10 minutes instead of waiting 15–20 minutes on shared pipelines, slashing CI spend and accelerating feedback loops.Designed the monolith hotfix process with a dedicated track and skip-stage path, providing a safe, audited express lane to production for critical fixes.Led Mockr, the pre-prod mock repository powering customer integration tests; replaced 10k+ duplicated responses with a template system plus unit/integration tests and Datadog observability.Eliminated enterprise customer API timeouts by optimizing webhook processing, replacing inefficient MongoDB queries with lightweight boolean checks.Architected Testr, a custom test execution platform with reusable declarative templates that standardize runs and boost developer velocity across teams.Current Focus: Owning monolith pipelines, core libraries, and GitLab administration while providing daily support that keeps hundreds of engineers productive.My platforms and optimizations reduce wait times, enable faster iteration, and maintain deployment confidence at scale

Skills

• Teaching
• Time Management
• Entrepreneurship
• Public Speaking
• Strategy
• Creative Writing
• Community Outreach
• Community Development
• Curriculum Design
• Non-Profits
• Proposal Writing
• Television
• Program Development
• Entertainment
• Leadership Development
• Career Counseling
• Grant Writing
• Leadership
• Research
• Fundraising
• Social Media
• Curriculum Development
• Event Planning
• Social Media Marketing
• Organizational Development
• Staff Development
• Public Relations
• Media Relations
• Press Releases
• Marketing
• Copy Editing
• Facebook
• Publicity
• Newsletters
• Social Networking
• Blogging
• Volunteer Management
• Editing
• Strategic Planning
• Strategic Communications