Nathan Cook
Independent Thinker at EpiSci (an Applied Intuition company)
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Cook is an independent thinker and principled flight test engineer with 11 years of experience driving complex aerospace test programs and data-driven modernization across military and commercial projects. He has led multidisciplinary teams through high-stakes flight test planning, ground and flight execution, and safety risk mitigation for platforms from F-16 weapons integration to experimental Quarterhorse prototypes. Comfortable translating between pilots, software, avionics, and data systems, he has a track record of improving processes—introducing regression testing methods that saved flight hours and implementing procedure and test-data management tools enterprise-wide. Nathan blends deep technical training (MS degrees in Flight Test Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Computational Data Analytics) with instructional and outreach experience from the USAF Test Pilot School and academic roles. Based in Florida, he thrives on cross-discipline integration and is often the go-to technical contact when onboarding new enterprise software or shaping human–machine interfaces. A longtime educator and mentor, he brings an engineer’s curiosity to operational problems, turning rigorous analysis into practical, safety-conscious solutions.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Education (MEd) Secondary Natural Science, Master of Education (MEd) Secondary Natural Science at Converse UniversityMaster of Science - MS Flight Test Engineering, Master of Science - MS Flight Test Engineering at USAF Test Pilot SchoolGerman Studies, German Studies at Institute for the International Education of Students - FreiburgMaster of Science - MS Computational Data Analytics, Master of Science - MS Computational Data Analytics at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics at Harvey Mudd College
English, German
Github Skills (113)
epub10
donut10
tidyverse10
bookdown10
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dplyr10
rmarkdown10
gitbook10
tsne10
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quarto9
markdown9
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jupyterlab9
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Society-of-Flight-Test-Engineers/perlan-data
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
cooknl/flight-test-brevity
Jan 2023 - Jun 2024
A port to Quarto of the Flight Test Brevity Guide
Contributions:9 releases, 7 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 4 months
brevitycommunicationsflight-testquarto
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