Corey is an Australian CTO & software engineer (full stack) with 15+ years of industry experience running engineering teams and delivering software at-scale. For the past decade he's been focused on founding and supporting startups to build web applications for enterprise companies in the e-commerce, last-mile logistics, and F&B verticals.Notable projects include:• An integrated real-time call center dashboard, ERP and CRM system for a large restaurant chain (500+ outlets) in South East Asia, directly responsible for processing more than $10M USD GMV annually.• An app-based (iOS & Android) loyalty program and digital wallet for an Australian café chain (40+ locations) with 100,000+ active users.• A consumer-facing food delivery marketplace (responsive website & native applications) and integrated last-mile fulfilment system for a premium F&B holding company in Hong Kong (30+ restaurants, with multiple Michelin starred brands).Prior to this, Corey was a senior engineer at Bigcommerce during a rapid growth phase as a result of a $20 million series B investment. During this period he acted as a key team member and leader, helping to scale the product from 20,000 to 50,000+ paid installs, and grow the development team from less than 20 to 60+ full-time engineers.Corey has a Bachelor of Software Engineering from the University of Newcastle. He graduated with First Class Honors and his name on the Dean's merit list for his major thesis and work in machine learning for medical applications (brain MRI classification).Specialties: • Building effective software engineering teams; hiring, mentoring junior talent, project management (sprint, KANBAN), managing offshore/outsourced talent, CI/CD...• Software architecture; designing for scale.• A range of programming languages and frameworks: PHP 5.x-8.x, Laravel, Typescript, NestJS, Elixir + Phoenix.• Database design and admin; PostGRES / PostGIS, MySQL. NoSQL (Redis, MongoDB). Elasticsearch.• Devops; AWS, Terraform, Ansible.