Chris Cooper
Director Of Engineering, DevOps at Miris
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolChris Cooper is a founder and Principal AI Engineer with 15 years of experience building production-grade distributed systems and consumer products, currently shipping an AI-native iOS app that personalizes thousands of Mandarin stories. He combines hands-on system architecture—from FastAPI backends and iOS clients to Postgres + Pinecone hybrid search—with MLOps, observability, and cost modeling to move LLM prototypes into scalable, monitored services. Chris has repeatedly led founding-engineer efforts to turn research-y LLM workflows into customer-facing features, including an AI sales research pipeline that processed tens of thousands of pages daily. He’s equally at home improving legacy risk platforms at Stripe and mentoring engineers, and has been recognized as a code approver there for quality and rigor. A software generalist by training, he pairs pragmatic product instincts with deep implementation skills in prompt chains, RAG, and production vector search. Based in Old Toronto, he brings entrepreneurial grit—having launched games and campus tools—plus a knack for shipping complete end-to-end solutions.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc. Environmental Informatics, M. Sc. Environmental Informatics at University of Guelph
English, French
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Github Skills (38)
django-project10
multidimensional-arrays9
objective-c9
java9
python9
semantics9
django9
logical-operators9
iphone9
django-rest-framework9
hide9
error-handling9
rfc8
social-authentication7
operator6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ChrisCooper/CIT
Aug 2011 - Nov 2011
Contributions:60 commits in 3 months
ChrisCooper/QcumberD
Aug 2012 - Jan 2023
A Django-based course search service for Queen's University
Contributions:540 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 6 months
queenpythondjango-rest-frameworkdjangocourse-search
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