Jim Cooley has an extensive work experience in the technology industry. Currently, they are working as a Principal Database Reliability Engineer at Cognite since March 2021. Prior to this, from September 2018 to March 2021, they held the position of Venture CTO / Director Of Engineering at BCG Digital Ventures, where they led incubation and played the role of CTO in the development and launch of new digital ventures.
From an earlier role at VMware, Jim worked as a Sr Staff Architect, Cloud Automation, where they designed a distributed systems operating environment utilizing technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Kafka, and Xenon. Their tenure at VMware spanned from 2016 to March 2021.
Before VMware, Jim worked as the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Ubix.io, a company that utilized Machine Learning to power data analytics and visualization. Their contributions to Ubix.io were from November 2013 to 2015.
From 2009 to 2013, Jim held the position of Director of Engineering, HP Cloud Services, at Hewlett-Packard. Jim was responsible for starting, building, and managing several service teams, including Trove, Monitoring as a Service, Hadoop as a Service, and more.
At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Jim served as a Sr Engineering Manager for Elastic Block Storage (EBS) from July 2008 to September 2009. Jim led the team through the launch of the service and managed various aspects such as team management, service architecture, and capacity planning.
Jim's earlier experience includes roles at Zumobi as the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder, where they developed an innovative mobile platform with zoomable user interfaces, and at Microsoft as a Director of Technology and Technical Lead/Architect.
Overall, Jim Cooley has a diverse background with expertise in database reliability engineering, venture incubation, cloud automation, machine learning, and mobile technologies.
Jim Cooley completed their MBA in Executive Management from the University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business from 2009 to 2011. In 2005, they attended the MIT Sloan School of Management for Graduate Learning, focusing on Developing and Managing Technology Strategy. Jim also earned a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from the University of Washington, although the specific timeline for this degree is not provided.
Additionally, Jim Cooley obtained two certifications in April 2021. Jim completed the CDF Basics Completion Certificate from Cognite Academy and became a Citizen Data Scientist Adventurer from Cognite.
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