Carson Cook
Articling Student at Olthuis, Kleer, Townshend LLP
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolCarson Cook is a software engineer-turned-law student with 10 years of technical experience building scalable, secure systems and leading cross-functional teams. He shipped production telemetry and mainframe integration work at IBM—contributing custom OpenTelemetry Collector components and to the Zowe project—while earlier roles spanned DevOps, test automation, and mobile and web application development. Known for pragmatic problem solving, Carson emphasizes maintainability, security, and operational readiness, and has experience drafting continuity and IT policy for student and nonprofit organizations. He pairs hands-on engineering with governance perspective now that he’s articling after earning a JD from the University of Toronto, bringing a rare blend of legal training and deep systems knowledge to risk, compliance, and technical design discussions.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Law - JD, Doctor of Law - JD at University of TorontoComputer Engineering, 3.63, Computer Engineering, 3.63 at Queen's University
English
Github Skills (41)
data-set10
packaging10
mainframe10
collector10
java10
certificate10
api10
rest10
api-gateway10
opentelemetry10
rest-api10
tempo10
telemetry10
otel10
controller9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
QueensEngineeringSociety/QLife
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:4 releases, 10 PRs, 99 pushes in 11 months
QueensEngineeringSociety/OWeekRegistration
Feb 2018 - Mar 2020
Application to view Queen's Engineering Orientation Week Registration Information
Contributions:2 PRs, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
queenreact-nativeregistrationandroidorientation
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