Mike Cichonski
Lead Software Developer at Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Cichonski is a lead software developer who blends cognitive science and data-driven engineering to deliver user-focused, scalable software. Based in Old Toronto, he currently leads software development at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, leveraging Python, JavaScript, AWS, and modern cloud-native stacks. In previous roles at Creative Destruction Lab, he designed AI-driven end-to-end solutions that automated core operations across AWS, Salesforce, Slack, Google, and Airtable, saving over 10,000 hours of manual work for a network of 5,000+ stakeholders. As an R&D Data Analyst, he normalized venture-finance text into robust SQL schemas and boosted NLP model performance by roughly 20%. His background includes building EEG processing pipelines that analyzed over 1,200 infant recordings to reveal early neural markers, illustrating his knack for turning research into production-ready tools. He thrives in Agile environments, turning UX concepts into practical software while leading teams toward high performance.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Cognitive Science, Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Cognitive Science, Cognitive Science at Carleton University
English, Polish, French
Github Skills (2)
lossless7
pipeline6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mikeCplus/SOILIE-3D
Mar 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:14 PRs, 52 pushes, 15 branches in 8 years
mikeCplus/quickERP
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:39 pushes, 2 branches in 18 days
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