Russell Schick
Senior Research Engineer at CloudZero
Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolRussell Schick is a Senior Research Engineer with 11 years of professional experience building cloud-native services, developer tools, and scalable applications across startups and large enterprises. He has deep AWS expertise from roles at AWS S3, founding Ampt (a cloud app dev platform), and product work at Serverless Inc., plus a track record migrating legacy systems to serverless architectures to cut costs and boost scalability. Based in Squamish, BC, he blends low-level systems and embedded experience from early telecom work with modern cloud infrastructure, making him comfortable across the full stack of distributed systems. At CloudZero he focuses on tooling that helps engineering teams optimize cloud spend and architecture—leveraging both hands-on coding and research to turn operational data into actionable improvements. Notably, his background spans academic research (MSc, U of Toronto) and entrepreneurial product-building, giving him a hybrid perspective on practical engineering and long-term platform design.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of TorontoBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (152)
azure-functions10
jwt-authentication10
mobile-web10
serverless10
hybrid10
javascript10
animation10
browser10
serverless-applications10
aws-apigateway10
compiler10
lambda10
azure10
serverless-architectures10
cloud-services10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rschick/serverless
Nov 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 11 months
serverlessaws-lambdaiot-applicationsawsgoogle-functions
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