Jim Cooley
About Jim Cooley
Jim Cooley is a Principal Database Reliability Engineer at Cognite, with extensive experience in cloud services and engineering. He has held significant roles at companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, and has contributed to various technology advancements including Elastic Block Storage.
Work at Cognite
Jim Cooley serves as the Principal Database Reliability Engineer at Cognite since 2021. In this role, he is responsible for ensuring the reliability and performance of database systems. He has developed large-scale messaging infrastructure using Kafka, contributing to the company's data management capabilities.
Previous Experience in Engineering and Technology
Prior to his current role, Jim Cooley held various engineering and leadership positions. He worked at Hewlett-Packard as the Director of Engineering for HP Cloud Services from 2009 to 2013. He also served as a Technical Lead/Architect at Microsoft from 2002 to 2004 and later as Director of Technology at Microsoft from 2004 to 2006. His experience includes a role as Venture CTO at BCG Digital Ventures from 2018 to 2021 and as a Senior Staff Architect at VMware from 2016 to 2021.
Educational Background
Jim Cooley studied at the University of Washington, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. He later pursued an MBA at the UW Foster School of Business from 2009 to 2011. Additionally, he attended MIT Sloan School of Management, focusing on Developing and Managing Technology Strategy, where he completed a Graduate Learning program in 2005.
Contributions to Cloud Services and Technology Development
Jim Cooley has made significant contributions to cloud services and technology development. He played a key role in the development of Elastic Block Storage (EBS) at Amazon Web Services and directed the engineering of HP Cloud Data Analytics Services, including Map Reduce (Hadoop) and Database-as-a-Service (Trove). His work has focused on public, private, and hybrid-cloud deployment.
Patents and Innovations
Jim Cooley has been issued patents related to over-the-air updating for mobile and wireless devices, which were sold to Apple Computers. His innovations reflect his expertise in technology and engineering, contributing to advancements in mobile and wireless communications.