Russell Schick
Senior Research Engineer at CloudZero
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRussell Schick is a senior research engineer based in Squamish, BC, who builds reliable services, developer tools, and cloud-native applications across startups and large platforms. He combines hands-on systems and AWS experience—from an SDE role at AWS to his current research engineering work at CloudZero—with entrepreneurial perspective as co-founder and lead developer of Ampt. His decade-spanning career includes shipping backend services and leading teams at Serverless Inc. and D2L, informed by early industrial and academic development roles. With a BASc in Computer Engineering from Waterloo and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, he brings a research-minded approach to practical engineering problems. He’s known for translating complex cloud cost and developer-experience challenges into scalable, production-ready solutions that bridge product, research, and engineering.
10 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of TorontoBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English
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Github Skills (167)
iframes10
azure-functions10
jwt-authentication10
mobile-web10
serverless10
hybrid10
javascript10
animation10
browser10
serverless-applications10
aws-apigateway10
compiler10
lambda10
azure10
serverless-architectures10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rschick/serverless
Nov 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 11 months
serverlessaws-lambdaiot-applicationsawsgoogle-functions
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