Summary
Cooper Halvordson is a client-facing software leader with 12 years of experience and eight years of hands-on engineering at General Dynamics Electric Boat, specializing in embedded and safety-critical systems for the defense sector. He has led DevOps adoption across 3+ programs and 100+ repositories, introducing CI/CD, GitLab pipelines, and container workflows that halved deployment time and accelerated code changes by ~30%. As an engineer he transitioned legacy toolchains and languages, wrote code-generation tools that saved hundreds of development hours, and delivered near-zero-failure software for vehicle operation and diagnostics. In his current Client Liaison role he bridges government customers and engineering teams, supporting cybersecurity ATO efforts across 100+ controls and coordinating multi-stakeholder meetings. Comfortable across Python, Java, Ada, C/C++, and web technologies, he blends deep systems knowledge with practical process design and documentation. Colocated in Stonington, CT, he combines defense-domain rigor with a knack for automating tedious development work to scale team productivity.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computational Science, Bachelor of Science Computational Science at University of Connecticut