Charles Cook
Sr. Staff Program Manager, Robotics at Collaborative Robotics
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolCharles Cook is a senior product and program leader with 18 years of experience turning user insights into hardware-enabled customer experiences across robotics, consumer appliances, and retail operations. Currently leading robotics program management, he has driven strategy and roadmaps for autonomous systems at Amazon Scout and scaled rapid innovation cycles at Starbucks—delivering patented consumer products and measurable store efficiencies. He blends deep mechanical engineering pedigree (Caltech, UW MSME) with hands-on development experience dating back to Synaptics, enabling him to bridge research, hardware, software, and policy for real-world deployment. Known for creative problem-solving, he excels at compressing development timelines (e.g., 100-day innovation sprints) while navigating complex stakeholder and regulatory landscapes. Less obvious: he pairs product intuition with operational rigor, habitually turning ambiguous customer problems into testable prototypes and staged rollouts that reduce risk and accelerate adoption.
18 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MSME Mechanical Engineering, MSME Mechanical Engineering at University of WashingtonCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (21)
json10
printer10
svn9
javascript9
markdown9
formatter9
css9
yaml9
vue9
angular9
graphql9
xml8
html8
jsx8
eslint8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PKRoma/XML-RPC.NET
Nov 2007 - Mar 2012
Contributions:270 commits in 4 years 4 months
rpcdotnetxmlsvncsharp
charlescook/sregex
Aug 2011 - Aug 2011
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.