
Simon Corcos
Verified Expert in Engineering
TypeScript Developer
Montreal, QC, Canada
Toptal member since March 20, 2020
Simon is a hands-on CTO and engineering leader with 10+ years of experience across healthtech, data platforms, SaaS, and eCommerce. As CTO of HOP TECH, he leads architecture and delivery while staying involved in the code. His work spans clinical data and AI platforms, complex API integrations, subscription analytics, and commerce systems. He helps founders turn unclear requirements into practical architecture, clear delivery plans, and reliable products.
Portfolio
Experience
- TypeScript - 10 years
- APIs - 10 years
- JavaScript - 9 years
- System Architecture - 8 years
- Node.js - 8 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 7 years
- Technical Leadership - 5 years
- PostgreSQL - 3 years
Work Experience
Data Engineer, Subscription Analytics & Lifecycle Systems
YogaWorks
- Built subscription analytics and BI dashboards for subscriber counts, MRR, LTV, trials, churn, and plan changes, with clear metric definitions and data-quality drilldowns.
- Reconciled customer identities, subscriptions, revenue, and entitlements across Vimeo OTT, web and mobile sources, BigQuery, and MySQL using explicit lifecycle and source-of-truth rules.
- Implemented and maintained lifecycle instrumentation across Segment, GA4, GTM, BigQuery, and Iterable, keeping customer state and conversion events consistent across systems.
Technical Product Owner & Integrations Lead
Nester & Finn
- Owned booking journey rules for availability, rates, member pricing, promotions, fees, taxes, and payment failures, keeping pricing and checkout behavior consistent.
- Led the Mews booking engine and connector integration strategy, validating API feasibility, property access, and parity between sandbox and production environments.
- Implemented privacy-safe PostHog analytics from search through booking confirmation, including session replay, Web Vitals, source maps, release tracking, and error capture.
Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
HOP TECH
- Led technology strategy and delivery across software, AI, clinical data, cloud infrastructure, and connected devices, managing eight developers and coordinating with clinical and hardware teams.
- Architected a shared data and AI platform for governed datasets, operational and analytical pipelines, preprocessing, and model-development workflows across internal teams and subcontractors.
- Built a Polar H10 integration across React Native, Kotlin, Swift, web, and back-end systems for ECG, 200 Hz accelerometer, heart-rate, and RR data, with offline recovery and physically validated streams on Android and iOS.
- Migrated a 69 GB PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, and API platform with rollback protection; validated 28 legacy endpoints and reconciled more than 1,800 clinical recordings with zero mismatches.
- Led development of a secure clinical trials platform spanning mobile, web, back-end, and wearable firmware; co-authored digital-biomarker research and contributed as an inventor on two published health-technology patent applications.
Data Engineering - Segment CDP Expert
Clover Health
- Built and shipped production Segment CDP pipelines across source, destination, and insert functions, connecting CRM data, profile enrichment, identity resolution, and downstream activation.
- Implemented reliable integrations for Segment Profiles, Insightly, AWS Connect, secure email, data feeds, and Twilio SMS with validation, retries, batching, and consent controls.
- Established automated CI/CD to lint, test, and deploy Segment Functions through GitHub Actions, improving data-pipeline quality and release safety.
Senior Full-stack Engineer
Red Krypton, Inc.
- Developed appointment booking and checkout flows with Next.js.
- Built data pipelines using Segment to track conversions in the front end and using offline conversion APIs.
- Developed libraries to integrate Segment in the front end and back end.
- Built, deployed, and managed A/B tests with VWO. Worked with visual A/B tests and SplitURL tests.
- Managed data pipelines using Segment, GTM, Google Ads, and Facebook Ads.
- Managed email marketing using Klaviyo, Active Campaign, and Customer.io.
- Connected segment to data warehouse (BigQuery and Redshift) for multiple clients and built live reports in Looker, Google Sheets, and Google Analytics.
Lead Mobile App Developer
Milliman, Inc. -- Employee Benefits Admin Practice
- Led Android and iOS delivery using .NET MAUI and Azure, bringing both platforms into a shared engineering workflow and agile release process.
- Developed and maintained mobile applications handling customers' financial and health data, with secure authentication and monthly HIPAA training.
- Built custom Android and iOS WebView integrations for cookie management, file downloads, and tabs, and updated the app's UI to match the client's website.
- Delivered more than 50 features and bug fixes per year on a 10-hour-per-week engagement.
Fractional CTO
Barefoot Surf
- Acted as fractional CTO. Provided technical expertise and advice on software development and software stack.
- Developed, customized, and maintained their React Native app that teaches people how to surf. One of the most notable tasks was developing a video player plugin for their app.
- Maintained and customized the WordPress site for their e-learning platform.
Solution Architect, Technology Due Diligence
World Institute on Disability
- Led technical due diligence across a multi-product disability-services platform spanning a CMS, benefits estimator, secure document vault, housing system, authentication, microservices, and AWS.
- Assessed the codebase, documentation, security, architecture, cloud environment, performance, accessibility, and operational risks.
- Presented executives with acquisition and licensing options, modernization priorities, infrastructure-transfer plans, and the team required to operate the platform.
Lead Full-stack Developer
Succession
- Used React to develop the front end of a modern, opinionated BI tool to track KPIs of businesses that use different SaaS to power their operations.
- Architected and built an integration engine for over 30 SaaS products.
- Developed the back end of the platform using Next.js and Node.js.
C# Developer
Tahoe Donner Assocation
- Developed a Xamarin Android binding library around the Square SDK for Android.
- Made an exact replica of the Square SDK Android sample application in Xamarin Android.
- Provided documentation on integrating the binding library for the Square SDK into the client's application.
- Created a Gradle script to download all the dependency files (AAR and JAR) for any Android package.
CTO | Solutions Architect
DFAS, LLC
- Designed the architecture of a modern HR back-office system, accounting for diverse stakeholder needs, various user profiles, SaaS integrations, and extensive requirements.
- Wrote a comprehensive technical vision document detailing the system's architecture.
- Negotiated with vendors to secure the best pricing for solutions.
Software Back-end Architect
Soulmate LLC
- Designed the back-end architecture for a dating app (like Hinge or Tinder) that allows members to filter the suggested profiles with a variety of parameters like geolocation (e.g., members within 50km of me), height, age range, etc.
- Reengineered the existing back end to overcome the limitations of Google Cloud Firestore for queries with a scalable Node.js/Postgres set of services that run on Google Cloud Platform.
- Provided structure to the team's project management process by setting up in a few hours a project management tool (Open Project) and introduced them to the Agile methodology, user stories, and story point estimations.
- Provided cost estimates for the back-end infrastructure on Google Cloud and Firebase that covered usage by 1 thousand, 100 thousand, and 1 million users.
Software Architect
Creative Advanced Technologies (via Toptal)
- Performed requirements elicitation and research to design the architecture and lead a team of developers responsible for the development of a COVID-19 contact tracing application for an entire country in the Middle East (30 million users).
- Came up with clever solutions to complex problems such as distributing new data every hour to millions of active users while avoiding peak loads or keeping users anonymous while still allowing them to access their COVID-19 test results with the app.
- Delivered the high-level architectural design of the entire platform, including a vision document, a high-level system diagram, the user stories, and the initial mobile application's UI prototype.
- Designed key low-level architectural components of the platform, delivering an in-depth architectural overview document, the mobile application architecture diagram, several sequence diagrams, and the system's data structures.
- Produced job descriptions for the rest of the development team, including back-end developers, iOS and Android developers, and DevOps engineers. Also helped the client screen the candidates during the interview process.
ERP Customization Specialist
GURUS Solutions
- Wrote scripts for users of the ERP to query databases, perform data validation, and implemented custom business flows. We used unit testing, acceptance testing, and peer reviews for quality assurance.
- Spoke directly to the clients to document their needs and figure out how NetSuite could be configured and customized to fulfill those needs.
- Collaborated with the lead developers to improve and document the development process.
Web Developer
SOS Cuisine
- Developed a recipe recommendation algorithm that ultimately used caching and database optimizations to improve performance.
- Revamped the user profile page, making it responsive, with a cleaner UI and added a “recommended recipes” widget that I created.
- Tested front-end and back-end components using JavaScript.
Analytics Software Developer
DJL Construction
- Designed and implemented the system's new architecture.
- Developed software that could analyze and transform data retrieved from different types of sensors used in cement factories and produce one-pager reports for management.
- Created an app that could run on Windows 95 and be operated by factory workers to extract the data recorded by cement factory sensors.
Project History
30+ SaaS Integrations & Business Intelligence | Succession
Subscription Analytics & Reconciliation | YogaWorks
https://yogaworks.com/Clinical Data & AI Platform | HOP TECH
https://hoptech.ca/Booking & Payment Integrations | Nester & Finn
https://nesterfinn.com/Kernel | Tasks, Calendars, & Time Tracking
https://krnl.work/Wearable Data Collection App | Xamarin
https://hoptech.ca/Avatar App for People with Autism | Xamarin
https://hoptech.ca/MMS Foundation Website | WordPress
http://www.fondationmms.org/Contact Tracing App | Architectural Design
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yn6o_ViaMTOLtT9emPvuFTT0Lhd2e4lan21To7-kea4/edit?usp=sharingCOVID-19 Population Questionnaire | Angular
https://hoptech.ca/3D Model Management App | Angular
https://hoptech.ca/HOP-Child Technologies Website | WordPress
https://hoptech.ca/Video Labeling App | AngularJS
https://hoptech.ca/Criminal Attorney Office Website | WordPress
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering
(ETS) École De Technologie Supérieure - Montreal, Canada
Certifications
Certified Node.js Application Developer
OpenJs Foundation
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, Segment.io, Chai, REST APIs, jQuery, React, Protobuf, Kepler.gl, OpenID, Doctrine
Tools
Visual Studio App Center, GitLab, Visual Studio, Google Workspace, Google Docs, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Word, MinGW, VMware, GitLab CI/CD, Gradle, Prisma, BigQuery, Zapier, Karma, Mocha, Auth0, Graylog, NPM, NGINX, Microsoft Excel, TeamGantt, GitHub, Claude
Languages
UML, C#, JavaScript, SQL, XAML, HTML5, C#.NET, TypeScript, HTML, Python, XML, CSS, CSS3, Kotlin, SuiteScript 1, Less, VB.NET, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), C, PHP, R, Java, YAML, SCSS
Frameworks
Express.js, .NET, .NET MAUI, Angular, Jasmine, Next.js, OAuth 2, iOS SceneKit, Apache Spark, ASP.NET, Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS, React Native, NUnit
Paradigms
Database Design, Microservices, Test-driven Development (TDD), Behavior-driven Development (BDD), MEAN Stack, RESTful Development, Testing, REST, ABAC, E2E Testing, Continuous Deployment, Scrum, Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
Platforms
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Xamarin, Android, iOS, Docker, Windows, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), WordPress, Azure, Vercel, Buddy, MacOS
Storage
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Databases, MongoDB, NoSQL, Cloud Firestore, Redis, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Industry Expertise
Healthcare
Other
Back-end, Mobile Apps, CTO, Architecture, Segment, Back-end Development, Technical Leadership, Software Architecture, System Design, System Architecture, Technical Documentation, APIs, Cloud, Dash, Cost Estimation, JetBrains IDE, Bluetooth, Symphony, Data-level Security, NetSuite, Leadership, Software Engineering, Square, Back-office System Development, Google Analytics 4 (GA4), Google Tag Manager, SSL, SuiteScript, Artificial Intelligence (AI), ISO Standards, Big Data, OpenAI, Data Engineering
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