Summary
Craig Cook is a transformational engineering leader with 21 years of hands-on experience building and operating highly available infrastructure and developer tooling, currently managing Developer Tooling at IBM for PagerDuty, Instana and PowerUps. He blends strategic vision with deep technical chops—automation, monitoring, SRE and multi-region architectures—to remove friction, improve uptime and scale services across global teams. At IBM he’s driven large-scale DevOps adoption, introduced collaboration features like VS Code Live Share, and shepherded an acquisition into a low-friction internal service. Known for coaching without direct authority, he has influenced dozens of squads across multiple countries to adopt rigorous DevOps and security automation practices. A pragmatic problem solver who’s worked across Australia, the UK and the US, he pairs operational excellence with an aptitude for converting messy legacy processes into measurable business outcomes.
21 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Infomation Technology, Information Systems, Bachelor, Bachelor of Infomation Technology, Information Systems, Bachelor at Queensland University of Technology