Jim Cooley
Principal Database Reliability Engineer
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJim Cooley is a Principal Database Reliability Engineer in Seattle with a decade of hands-on experience building and leading teams from early startups to large cloud product initiatives. He has repeatedly launched and scaled foundational cloud services—most notably AWS EBS, HP Cloud data and messaging services, and Kafka-based messaging at Cognite—bringing product, operations, and architecture together. As a former Venture CTO and co-founder, he blends startup pragmatism with enterprise-grade engineering, designing cross-cloud, autonomous management systems and low-latency data gateways. Jim holds patents in OTA mobile update technologies (some transferred to Apple), reflecting a pattern of practical innovation that spans storage, analytics, messaging, and visualization platforms.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at University of WashingtonGraduate Learning, Graduate Learning at MIT Sloan School of ManagementMBA, MBA at University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business
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Github Skills (23)
sdk10
azure-sdk9
python9
azure-functions9
azure9
kafka-streams8
kafka-connect8
messaging8
microsoft7
data-stream7
kubernetes-operator7
blockchain7
openshift7
data-streams7
apache-kafka6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jim-cooley/abletonremotescripts
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 14 pushes in 16 days
jim-cooley/simple-parser
Apr 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 5 months
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