Summary
Corey Hickson is a seasoned software developer with over a decade of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He has designed and operated hundreds of distributed, event-driven microservices on GCP and Kubernetes and regularly ships scalable automation solutions—one implementation based on AWS Step Functions handled bursts above one million events while cutting costs by 90%. Corey has driven product and revenue impact by leading integration teams and prototyping a greenfield conversation-analysis product in a fraction of expected time, demonstrating a talent for rapid, pragmatic architecture. Beyond coding, he cultivates engineering culture through mentorship, technical writing programs, frontend communities, and cross-company initiatives. His dual academic background in computer science and chemical engineering underpins a methodical, data-informed approach to problem solving and systems design.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science with great distinction, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science with great distinction at University of Saskatchewan