Todd Cook
Director Of Engineering at ActiveState
Burlingame, California, United States
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Top SchoolTodd Cook is a Director of Engineering with 15 years building and transforming front-end and full-stack teams, currently leading engineering at ActiveState from the Bay Area. He combines hands-on development (React, TypeScript, Webpack federated modules, Nx monorepos) with strategic leadership—shaping platform architecture, influencing executive roadmaps, and mentoring distributed teams. At Malwarebytes he architected a shared frontend platform to boost velocity and consistency across Nebula and OneView while still contributing code and reviews. A pragmatic craftsman with roots in UI and UX, he earlier led front-end standards at Emerson and has deep experience modernizing legacy stacks. Todd is also an active open-source contributor to projects like the Classical Language Toolkit, where he implemented Latin prosody and scansion features—an indicator of both technical breadth and attention to nuanced problems. He brings a designer’s sensibility from a Digital Art background to create usable, maintainable software and developer-friendly platforms.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Art (3D Animation) Electronic Media Art and Technology, Digital Art (3D Animation) Electronic Media Art and Technology at University of TampaHigh School Diploma General, High School Diploma General at Winter Springs High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
nlp10
prosody10
python10
doctest9
transformer-models6
huggingface-transformers6
pytorch6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cltk/cltk
Jul 2017 - Aug 2021
The Classical Language Toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 43 commits, 42 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Todd primarily contributed to the development of the `cltk/cltk` project, focusing on Latin prosody and text analysis. Their work involved implementing new classes and methods within the prosody module, specifically for handling hexameter scansion, including functionalities for handling optional transformations, and refining syllabification rules. They also corrected doctests and documentation, ensuring the accuracy and usability of the code. In addition, the user added new functionality, including methods for handling hendecasyllables and pentameter.
nlplingpythonlatinnltk
lizadaly/brobot
Feb 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:4 PRs in 5 years 3 months
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