Iain Cooke
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Prilly, Vaud, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolIain Cooke is a seasoned staff software engineer based in Prilly, Switzerland, with 12 years of experience and a multi-decade technical leadership background spanning startups, geospatial solutions, and academia. He has progressed from co-founding and leading engineering teams to CTO roles and product management before joining Google, where he transitioned from product manager to senior SRE and now staff engineer in Zurich. His strengths combine deep control-systems and robotics academic training (MSc, PhD) with practical product delivery and large-scale reliability engineering. Iain excels at launching products, forging strategic alliances, and translating research-grade algorithms into production services. Less obvious is his sustained cross-domain fluency—from industrial control software to cloud-scale site reliability—that lets him bridge research, product, and ops teams effectively. He brings a pragmatic leadership style focused on shipping resilient systems and mentoring engineers to operate at scale.
12 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
BA Engineering Science, BA Engineering Science at University of OxfordMSc Industrial Robotics, MSc Industrial Robotics at Cranfield University
Github Skills (8)
react2
morphic2
javascript2
web-development2
ide2
smalltalk2
nextjs1
user-interface1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
edesa/Quink
Feb 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 6 months
LivelyKernel/lively.ide
Dec 2018 - Dec 2018
A library of interactive development tools for lively.next
Contributions:1 PR in 1 day
development-toolsreactlivelytypescriptnextjs
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