Thomas Cooper
Director, Open Source Software Development at RBC
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolThomas Cooper is a Director of Open Source Software Development with nine years of experience modernizing infrastructure and developer practices at scale, currently leading RBC’s OSPO and open source supply chain, application security and developer advocacy efforts. He brings a rare combination of hands-on cloud architecture and former network-operator expertise, having designed and operated large-scale IP networks before moving up the stack into containerized, cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes, OpenShift, AKS and EKS. A pragmatic engineer and architect, he champions SRE practices, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) and CI/CD with TDD and domain-driven design to reduce developer friction and safely enable internal and external open sourcing. Active in upstream community projects (Kubernetes libraries, Helm charts, Jenkins plugins), he focuses on reusable components, standards and policies that move organizations toward InnerSource and open collaboration. Colleagues describe him as a recovering packet jockey who pairs deep operational empathy with developer-centric leadership and a taste for good coffee.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Systems Technology, Diploma, Computer Systems Technology at Durham College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (103)
security10
infrastructure10
dx10
security-compliance10
microservices10
charts10
github-api10
helm10
gitops10
vmware10
utility10
compliance10
dns-record9
sec9
github-bot9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
coopernetes/git-proxy
Aug 2023 - Feb 2025
An info-security/compliance-friendly way for highly regulated industries to be more accepting of open source
Contributions:4 PRs, 65 pushes, 22 branches in 1 year 6 months
coopernetes/kube-role-gen
Jan 2020 - Nov 2022
Generate a Kubernetes role containing all resources available on a cluster
Contributions:4 releases, 43 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 11 months
rbacutilitykubernetesclusterrole
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