Corey Roach
CTO & Partner at Northern Trust Corporation
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolCorey Roach is a Chicago-based technology leader and Full-Stack Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience, currently serving as CTO & Partner at DwellSafe while also holding a senior engineering leadership role at Northern Trust. He blends enterprise-grade architecture and product-focused delivery—having led front-end, back-end, and cross-platform projects from Angular/Electron apps to Django/React sites and mobile iOS builds. Corey has a history of translating creative briefs into production systems, from predictive marketing ROI tools and decentralized exchange prototypes to chatbots that leverage Dialogflow; he contributed upstream enhancements to the Dialogflow Node.js client to improve session context management. Comfortable mentoring teams and shipping end-to-end solutions, he pairs design-rooted sensibilities from an art-school background with rigorous engineering practices. Known for pragmatic technical stewardship, he moves easily between rapid prototyping and long-term platform thinking.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Internship, Architectural Photography, Internship, Architectural Photography at Columbus College of Art & Design
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Github Skills (18)
javascript10
api-design10
actionscript10
dialogflow10
nodejs10
spritekit9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
html6
react6
flash6
apache-flex6
angularjs6
forms6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dialogflow/dialogflow-nodejs-client
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Node.js SDK for Dialogflow
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Corey primarily focused on extending the functionality of the Dialogflow Node.js client library related to context management. They introduced a mechanism to delete or reset contexts for a session and refactored the code to separate the delete context logic. These changes involved modifying existing API calls and creating a dedicated class for the delete context request, along with updating examples and TypeScript definitions. The contributions centered around improving the API for context manipulation within the Dialogflow platform.
node-jssdknodejsdialogflowchatbot
coreyroach/api-ai-node-js
Feb 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
apinode-jssdknodejsapi-ai
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