Nick Cook
Senior Technical Writer at NVIDIA
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Cook is a Senior Technical Writer and seasoned backend developer with nine years of experience building and documenting cloud-native media and developer tools, now based in California. He spent nearly a decade at Google and now writes at NVIDIA, blending deep hands-on contributions to Google Cloud client libraries and samples (notably extensive work on the Transcoder and Video Stitcher APIs across Ruby, Go, Java, .NET, PHP, Node.js, and Python) with polished SDK and README documentation for projects like the Google Assistant. Comfortable across languages and layers, he has implemented cross-platform samples, tests, and overlays for complex video workflows and even touched Android platform tooling and VNDK scripts. Nick pairs developer-centric writing with real engineering chops—his background includes gameplay and UI programming for major titles and patent-credited work—so he uniquely bridges product docs, samples, and production-ready backend code.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Github Skills (42)
apim10
live-streaming10
javascript10
google-cloud-platform10
transcode10
video-encoding10
restructuredtext10
pytest10
python10
apidoc10
video-conversion10
testing10
net10
sample-size10
dotnet10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/golang-samples
Nov 2020 - Dec 2022
Sample apps and code written for Google Cloud in the Go programming language.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:113 reviews, 19 commits, 53 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to the Google Cloud Transcoder API samples, implementing and testing various features. Their work involved creating, getting, listing, and deleting job templates and jobs, including jobs from presets, templates, and ad-hoc configurations. The user demonstrated expertise in working with Go, interacting with the Transcoder API, and ensuring the samples functioned correctly by writing tests. They extended the samples to include jobs that use various overlays (static, animated) and spritesheets as well.
golangappenginesample-appsgoogle-cloudgoogle-appengine
GoogleCloudPlatform/dotnet-docs-samples
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
.NET code samples used on https://cloud.google.com
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:96 reviews, 13 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick's primary contribution involved adding .NET code samples related to Google Cloud's media transcoder service, game servers, and video stitcher services. These samples demonstrate the creation and configuration of transcoding jobs, including features like animated overlays, concatenated inputs, and periodic image spritesheets. The user also added tests and sample for the Media CDN, showing work in the Video Stitcher samples. Further contributions included adding and updating various .NET samples demonstrating the usage of Live Stream services.
dotnetc-sharpcsharpgoogle-clouddotnet-core
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