Summary
Joseph Cook is a computer science senior at Michigan State University with three years of hands-on software engineering experience building high-performance backend systems and automation tools. He has shipped production-grade services for startups and enterprise teams—ranging from low-latency arbitrage monitoring across order books to a DynamoDB-backed loan-origination analytics API and a near-real-time parking enforcement tracker. Comfortable across Python, C#/.NET, and cloud-native AWS stacks, he focuses on efficient algorithms, maintainable APIs, and pragmatic data design. Joseph also brings practical ML/NLP experience, having built a GPT-4 powered internal chatbot with a custom hybrid search RAG pipeline, and has tutored and supported large undergraduate courses, honing his ability to explain complex systems. Based in New York, he blends curiosity-driven engineering with compliance-minded product work, often optimizing for latency, security, and real-world constraints.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Michigan State University