Summary
Jeff Cooper is a seasoned software engineer and Site Reliability Engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating large-scale systems at Google, where he has held both SRE and TPM roles since 2014. Based in Pittsburgh, he pairs deep technical chops—rooted in a Computer Science degree from Carnegie Mellon—with leadership across academia and nonprofits, including teaching, student organization direction, and a current board role at Protohaven. He brings practical production experience from internships at SpaceX and NVIDIA to operational leadership in volunteer emergency medical services, reflecting a blend of high-stakes reliability and hands-on problem solving. Comfortable bridging engineering and program management, he has guided cross-functional teams through complex system design, incident response, and delivery. His background mentoring students and running campus innovation groups underscores a knack for developing talent and translating research-minded thinking into reliable, maintainable infrastructure. Notably, his career mixes hyperscale SRE practices with grassroots technical leadership in the Pittsburgh tech and civic scene.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors in Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelors in Computer Science Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Langley High School