Will Cooke
Senior Manager at Chainguard
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolWill Cooke is a seasoned engineering leader with 12+ years driving platform, infrastructure, and OS engineering at scale, most recently as Senior Manager at Chainguard after five years as Director of Engineering at InfluxData. He has led globally distributed teams to deliver cloud-native, high-throughput data platforms (InfluxDB Cloud, IOx) across multi-cloud regions and modernised operational practices for enterprise-grade reliability. Previously he ran Ubuntu Desktop product strategy at Canonical, blending product ownership, OEM partnerships and public-facing advocacy to ship Linux to millions of users. Will combines deep systems and infrastructure expertise—from kernel/OS-level product delivery to big-data storage engines using Arrow and Parquet—with a pragmatic focus on hiring, remote collaboration and sustainable engineering practices. A longtime practitioner of remote leadership and platform thinking, he often bridges technical strategy and commercial priorities while staying hands-on in architecture decisions.
12 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Nottingham Trent University
Github Skills (200)
timeseries-database10
custom-component10
python10
xubuntu10
automation10
scripting-language10
faunadb10
opentelemetry10
rgb10
home-assistant10
influxdb10
tempo10
monitoring10
mqtt10
influx10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
8none1/idealLED
Dec 2023 - Jan 2025
Control your iDeal LED lights with Python
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 4 PRs in 1 year 1 month
custom-componenthome-assistanthomeassistantidealled
8none1/pybq
Jun 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:28 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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