Guy Cobb
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGuy Cobb is a senior Site Reliability Engineer at Google with 15 years of experience building and operating distributed systems, scalable storage, and data analytics in the cloud. He currently supports BigQuery and broader data analytics platforms, drawing on prior Google roles across Drive, Datastore, Cloud Search, and Cloud Dataproc to design reliable, scalable infrastructure. His background spans high-performance scientific computing and parallel processing (MPI in C/C++, MapReduce in Java), giving him a deep appreciation for fault tolerance, throughput, and observability. An accomplished researcher turned practitioner, he carried early work in numerical analysis and HPC at the University of Colorado and through internships at LLNL and Argonne before moving into cloud-native software engineering. He is based in Kirkland, WA, and combines hands-on engineering with a strategic eye for reliability at scale.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science / Mathematics, BS, Computer Science / Mathematics at Indiana University SoutheastMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Colorado at Boulder
Github Skills (11)
google-cloud-dataproc10
nodes10
terraform9
kubernetes8
wrapper5
generator3
swig2
index-html2
mpi2
php1
ada1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cobb/dataproc-initialization-actions
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Run in all nodes of your cluster before the cluster starts - lets you customize your cluster
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
nodeskubernetescustomizeterraformcluster
cobb/GreenMonkeys
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 months
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