Summary
Tom Cook is a Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, securing, and operating scalable internet infrastructure for startups, major tech firms, and high-stakes political organizations. He has built core systems from Facebook’s early datacenter days through roles at Dropbox, Quora, HackerOne, and Anki, and has repeatedly led incident- and security-focused efforts under pressure. Tom served as the senior cloud security architect for the Biden campaign and helped harden infrastructure for the Presidential Inaugural Committee, demonstrating operational rigor against well-resourced adversaries. As a consultant and cloud economist he translates technical complexity into cost-optimized, durable architectures for fast-growing teams. Now based in San Francisco and currently at Bedrock Robotics, he blends deep systems knowledge with pragmatic security hygiene and an obsessive attention to telemetry and observability. Colleagues know him as “extremely online” and relentlessly hands-on—comfortable moving from low-level server provisioning to strategic cloud cost and security decisions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer