Summary
Orest Cokan is a senior software engineer and solutions architect with 7 years of experience designing cloud-native, resilient systems at TELUS. He specializes in migrating legacy platforms to event-driven, microservices architectures and modernizing CI/CD pipelines—most recently moving teams from Jenkins to GitHub Actions. Orest builds high-performance data pipelines and managed messaging solutions that support AI/ML initiatives and prevent operational disruptions, including protecting payroll for 60,000 employees with intelligent alerting. He is fluent across Java Spring Boot, Node.js, React, Terraform, GCP and OpenShift, combining full-stack delivery with infrastructure-as-code. Based in the Greater Edmonton area, he mixes a pragmatic focus on user-facing outcomes with a research-minded curiosity—often fueled by "way too much coffee"—and has a track record of turning strategic analysis into measurable funding and technical impact.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Alberta
Ukrainian, English