Gregory Cooke
Software Engineer at Google
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGregory Cooke is a software engineer and machine learning researcher with a decade of experience building scalable, testable production ML systems and secure backend infrastructure. He has led ML platform development and large refactors at Pindrop that halved end-to-end training time and automated cloud deployment using Terraform, Docker, and AWS. His work spans fraud detection in voice systems, ASR/NLP research, and security-focused contributions to high-profile open-source projects like gRPC (implementing CRL support and TLS verification improvements). Gregory combines rigorous academic training from Georgia Tech in ECE and multi-agent robotics research with hands-on production engineering at Google and Microsoft. He is equally comfortable optimizing distributed training pipelines and hardening transport-layer security—an uncommon pairing that speeds both model iteration and secure deployment.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (17)
ss10
c-language10
ssl10
it-security10
sslv310
security10
go10
x50910
openssl10
cryptography10
cprogramming-language10
grpc10
audit-logging9
golang9
rpc9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
grpc/grpc-go
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
The Go language implementation of gRPC. HTTP/2 based RPC
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:1 release, 252 reviews, 1 commit in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gregory primarily focused on enhancing the security of the gRPC-Go implementation. Their commits involved adding tests for CRL cache expiration and certificate revocation, and migrating from deprecated certificate revocation list (CRL) APIs. They implemented a utility function to convert PEM to DER format, and integrated and tested a new mechanism to handle CRLs. Additionally, the user refactored code, refactored audit logging.
golangnanoservicesrpcprotoprotobuf
grpc/grpc
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Role in this project:Security Engineer
Security EngineerContributions:347 reviews, 48 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Gregory's commits primarily focus on enhancing the security features of the gRPC library. They implemented features related to TLS certificate verification, including the ability to extract and pass up verified root certificate subjects and CRL (Certificate Revocation List) support. Additionally, the user refactored internal CRL handling, and implemented directory reloader functionality for CRL providers. The changes made impact the library's ability to validate certificates and ensure secure connections.
objective-ccpppythongrpcphp
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