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Brett Cooley

@brettcooley

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Staff Software Engineer specializing in planet-scale distributed systems, cloud, and AI platforms.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek senior engineering roles building scalable, compliant cloud platforms with strong cross-functional collaboration, mentoring, and impact on product and reliability.

I am a Staff Software Engineer with 12+ years building planet-scale distributed systems, multimodal data platforms, and AI-powered products at Google and Verily. I lead technical strategy, architect highly reliable cloud-native services, and drive execution across complex cross-functional programs.

At Verily I engineered HIPAA-compliant, high-throughput ingestion pipelines and backend microservices that support tens of millions of lives, productionized ML infrastructure, and codified enterprise SRE/DevOps standards to achieve 99.99% uptime for critical systems. At Google I architected and scaled core YouTube backend services, real-time payments, and transcoding platforms serving billions of daily views.

I mentor engineers, align technical roadmaps with product and regulatory stakeholders, and ship mission-critical, compliant solutions with a focus on observability, performance, and scalability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Staff Software Engineer

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Verily

Oct 2020 - Present (5 years 8 months)

Spearheaded technical strategy and architecture across three precision-health platforms supporting 60M+ lives, built scalable multimodal ingestion pipelines and HIPAA-compliant backend services that reduced onboarding from months to days and achieved sub-100ms P99 latency for 500K+ concurrent users.

Google Cloud BigQuery Dataflow Pub Sub Java Go gRPC Kubernetes TensorFlow Observability

Senior Software Engineer

Google

Jan 2014 - Oct 2020 (6 years 9 months)

Led development of planet-scale distributed systems for YouTube products, architecting backends and ML infrastructure that cut P99 latency by 70%, supported 30M+ subscribers, and enabled $500M+ annual creator revenue.

Go Python Java gRPC Spanner BigTable Kubernetes FFMPEG TensorFlow Distributed Systems

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

College of William & Mary

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science

2009 - 2013

Completed a dual-focus undergraduate program combining mathematics and computer science, developing strong analytical and programming foundations applied in large-scale systems engineering.