Jesse Cook
Director, Engineering at DigitalOcean
Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Cook is a Director of Engineering with 14+ years building and leading remote infrastructure and data teams, currently driving automation, observability, and OS delivery at DigitalOcean. He blends hands-on engineering (Python, Go, Plotly, Docker, Kubernetes) with strategic leadership—optimizing CI/CD, fleet data, and virtualization primitives to reduce lead time and improve reliability. Known for advocating simple architecture, behavior-driven testing, and healthy team culture, he prioritizes honesty, trust, and measurable outcomes. His background includes large-scale cloud projects at Rackspace (OpenStack, OnMetal) and low-level systems work (libvirt, QEMU, KVM) from earlier roles, giving him uncommon breadth from device to data. A Georgia Tech MS and former Army National Guard sergeant, he brings disciplined operational rigor and people-first coaching to complex engineering problems. Outside org-level strategy he still contributes code and InfoViz work, keeping a direct line to the technical challenges his teams face.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Github Skills (54)
javascript10
browser-extension10
digitalocean10
linux10
pihole10
command-line10
letsencrypt9
python9
openvpn9
http9
automation9
certificate9
rackspace9
raspberry-pi8
certbot8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CrashenX/vimrc
Sep 2015 - Aug 2024
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
CrashenX/ws-deploy
Sep 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 110 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 4 months
ansibleconfigureansible-roledebianubuntu
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