Short and Sweet

Cory von Wallenstein works by day, and often night, as the VP, Product Management for Dynamic Network Services, in Manchester, NH (you may know us best as DynDNS), specializing in datacenter automation, virtualization, and getting great products to market quickly. He has a BS from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a minor in Computer Science, and he enjoys writing, being outdoors, and traveling with his wonderful wife Jessica.

Now Let’s Take It Back…

I was born in central New Jersey in 1983. My father worked as a tug boat captain, and my mother worked in sales. My sister and I were quite a handful growing up, and I owe my parents significant gratitude.

I attended the Science & Engineering Learning Center in Manalapan, New Jersey where I received an incredibly influential education. It was so formative that myself along with a fellow student founded our first company while attending in 1998; like many others, the first endeavor was a small web design, application development, and hosting shop.

After the learning center, I moved up North to Massachusetts to attend Worcester Polytechnic Institute. I originally intended to study Computer Science at WPI. I felt, however, that I wanted to learn an entirely new field with my undergraduate education, and it is for that reason that I chose to major in Electrical Engineering.

It was in Worcester that I met my wife Jessica, learned how to solve problems, continued my work as a web and application developer to fund my education, and began voraciously reading the works of experts in business and technology.

During and immediately following WPI, I took on a couple of software engineering internships, projects, and jobs at Avaya in Lincroft, NJ, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, Charles River Analytics in Cambridge, MA, and founding Servprise International, Inc. in Rochdale, MA (the full story on Servprise can be found here). Each in turn greatly shaped my career and who I am today.

After wrapping up with Servprise, and while preparing financing for my next venture (ByFolio.com), I crossed paths with two fellow WPI alumni, Jeremy Hitchcock and Tom Daly from Dynamic Network Services Inc. in Manchester, NH, that I had the pleasure to see about once or twice a year at various WPI venture forums, local networking events, and even the occasional sales and “let me bounce some ideas off of you” meeting!

Little did I know at the time, but bouncing ideas off of each other led us to discover that we had more in common than we thought. We wanted to build the same great things, and we all knew we could build them even better together. In mid-2008, I proudly joined the DynDNS team.

We unveiled the first great thing we wanted to build in early autumn 2008… the DynDNS Spring Server platform. Who knows what we’ll build next?

About This Site

This site was started in December, 2007, at the point when I felt I had sufficient material of sufficient quality to be worth your time. The content is largely driven by my own personal experiences in developing technology, building businesses, and the successes and failures along the way.