Orest Cokan
Sr. Software Engineer - Solutions Architect at TELUS
Greater Edmonton Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolOrest 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
Github Skills (35)
financial-data8
stock-data7
yahoo7
api7
dedicated-server6
finance6
python6
pandas6
hardcore5
react-native-paper5
textinput5
dotnet5
yahoo-finance5
multiselect5
expressjs5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CMPUT301F18T15/MediTrackr
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:345 commits, 89 PRs, 273 pushes in 5 months
Orest-Cokan/cokan-FeelsBook
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:62 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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