Cooper Bills
San Francisco Bay Area at SUN
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolCooper Bills is a technical advisor and founder-CTO with nine years of engineering experience building robotics, platform, and startup-grade systems from the Bay Area. He has led software efforts at Boston Dynamics, X (Moonshot Factory), and Palantir, and now splits time between co-founding CogBase and advising SUN, bringing both product-level leadership and deep systems engineering chops. His hands-on background spans full-stack development, CI/CD and build-tooling—evidenced by contributions to Bazel NodeJS toolchains and ARM64 macOS build support for web testing workflows. Cooper combines academic roots in computer science from Cornell with practical experience shipping complex robotics and infrastructure software, making him adept at bridging research, operations, and product delivery. Less obvious: he moves fluidly between low-level build and tooling improvements and high-level technical strategy, a skill honed across startups and research-driven engineering organizations.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Engineering, Computer Engineering Technology, Associate of Engineering, Computer Engineering Technology at Vermont Technical CollegeB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Cornell University
English
Github Skills (14)
cypress10
nodejs10
bazel10
cicd10
typescript-types9
web-testing9
automation9
automations9
typescript9
typescripts9
webtest9
arm8
dockers7
docker7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
bazel-contrib/rules_nodejs
Feb 2020 - Dec 2021
NodeJS toolchain for Bazel.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 10 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Cooper primarily contributed to infrastructure and configuration management within the Bazel build system and related tooling. Their commits focused on adapting the build process to support new platforms, particularly for ARM64 architecture on macOS, and improving build configurations for Cypress testing. They also updated dependencies and version numbers for web testing and browser versions. The user's contributions involved modifying build files, toolchain definitions, and CI/CD configuration scripts.
bazeljavascriptstarlarknodejsrules-nodejs
CooperBills/grpc
Oct 2019 - Sep 2021
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 10 months
objective-ccpppythongrpcphp
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