James Cook
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Cook is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building client-side C/C++ systems, UI, and virtual-world features, now shaping Chrome for Chrome OS at Google. A former internal medicine physician with an MD and deep technical degrees, he brings a rare blend of clinical insight and systems-level engineering—useful for medical software and usability-focused products. His background includes leading UI and search teams at Linden Lab, shipping everything from OpenGL rendering to Python glue and MySQL integrations. Known for pragmatic architecture and hands-on coding across toolchains (Visual Studio, Xcode, gcc), he emphasizes usable interfaces and resilient designs. Less obvious: he started as employee number five at Linden Lab, gaining broad full-stack exposure that informs his pragmatic leadership style.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MD Medicine, MD Medicine at University of California, Davis - School of MedicineUniversity of California, San DiegoCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (30)
atlas9
image-registration9
hpc-cluster8
normalization8
neuroimaging7
voxel7
pipeline7
image-segmentation7
ants7
vtk5
hpc5
medical-image-processing5
image-processing4
python4
segmentation4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jamesjcook/pipeline_settings
Jan 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:121 pushes in 4 years 3 months
jamesjcook/civm_matlab_common_utils
Mar 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:140 pushes in 4 years 2 months
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