Jeff Cooper
Member Board Of Directors at Protohaven
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff 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.
15 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 UniversityLangley High School
Github Skills (43)
platformio10
adafruit10
python10
mqtt10
internet-of-things10
asyncio10
esp826610
iot10
yaml10
esp3210
home-assistant10
raspberry-pi10
home-automation10
wifi10
esphome10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jeffc/nrf52-watch-obsolete
Feb 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:51 commits, 8 pushes in 3 years
jeffc/nrf52-watch-firmware
Aug 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:56 commits, 40 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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