# Josh Cook > Software and Systems Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/joshcook https://github.com/cookjosh ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Science Jan 2023 – Present - Full Stack software engineer for a variety of internal- and external-facing platforms supporting BCI research, manufacturing, company operations, and clinical trials. Experience with Ruby on Rails, python FastAPI, React/Typescript - Infrastructure and systems administration, experience with AWS, GCP, Terraform, and other tools. Responsible for maintaining publicly-accessible web infrastructure in AWS and managing a wide range of on premises hardware. - Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, enabling reliable deployments and reducing manual operational overhead. - Manage and support internal on-prem and hybrid infrastructure, including setup and operation of a Ceph storage cluster used for R&D data, corporate networking infrastructure, and kubernetes and clustered compute resources. - Support IT operations as requested such as networking infrastructure management, certificate rotation, physical hardware installation, SaaS management. ### IT Manager @ Neuralink Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area • Lead team of IT Specialists across different geographic locations to ensure high response times and resolutions to end user requests for support, ranging from daily IT operations to long-term systems and infrastructure engineering projects. • Manage lifecycle of user accounts across external IAM platforms including Google Workspace, Okta, and Microsoft’s Azure AD and on-prem AD. Write powershell scripts for AD management and python internal webapp for automated provisioning on other platforms through REST APIs. Integrating and configuring SAML/SSO apps in a variety of IdP platforms (mentioned above). • Work with interdisciplinary teams such as engineering, operations, security, soft sciences, etc… • Deploy and administer multiple internal tools and applications to Kubernetes, including linking apps to external AWS RDS instances. • Administer remote and virtual workstations through a variety of technologies including EC2, vSphere, RDP-enabled machines, VNC, MaaS and others. • Systems administration experience across Windows, macOS, and Linux workstations and servers. • Partner with vendors and contractors to manage inventory, complete onsite infrastructure projects, and evaluate and implement new SaaS solutions. ### Special Forces Green Beret (18E) @ 20th Special Forces Group (Airborne) - Army National Guard Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 • Training and experience in both IT and military communication systems through classroom instruction, field training, and professional duties and responsibilities. Non-commissioned officer responsible for a varying number of soldiers from team- to squad-sized elements. • Understanding of basic IT fundamentals, networking, and security controls to include building and initializing desktops, connecting multiple systems via a switch in a LAN, connecting peripheral devices and IP addressing, network and port scanning utilizing tools such as Nmap and Wireshark, and many other principles. • Setup and maintain LANs for intra-team planning requirements including networking multiple workstations, NAS, and other networked devices for efficient collaboration. • Graduate of Basic and Advanced Leaders Courses. ### Intelligence Recruiter @ Geo Owl LLC Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Connecting Veterans, Transitioning Military, and Defense Professionals with their next opportunity and career! Our Mission: We provide high quality solutions to our mission partners in the United States through our expert analysts. Geo Owl is a people-centric organization, because we know to provide the best solutions, it requires personnel unsurpassed in knowledge, experience and dedication to the important missions of our nation. Our goal is to be recognized as the best at what we do by our customers and be a team our members are proud to be a part of. We continually strive toward excellence and seek the most difficult challenges our industry has to offer. Geo Owl is a premiere provider of Full-Motion Video (FMV), Geospatial, ISR, Intelligence and IT services to the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community. We are vitalized by our engaged team of professionals that truly value each other and the important missions we support. ### Talent Acquisition Consultant @ Supporting Strategies Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Diego, CA (Remote) • Partnered with multiple small accounting businesses in western United States to provide consultation and execution of workforce planning and recruitment goals. • Held weekly meetings with key external stakeholders to better understand current and future recruitment needs and collaborated with them to assist in workforce planning. • Implemented entire recruitment process for new businesses from beginning to end, to include sourcing candidates, document collection and interviewing, through onboarding of new hires. ### Recruitment Manager @ AMN Healthcare Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 • Experienced recruiter currently serving in a recruitment team manager position providing higher-level team coaching and client relations services to a range of healthcare organizations. • Responsible for leading daily operations of staffing delivery teams to provide high level of staffing services and workforce consultation to client partners with a focus in quality and customer service. • Track recruitment metrics and analytics to report on opportunities for improvement in client hiring processes, how to utilize different marketing initiatives to better reach labor market, as well as provide discussion points to better partnership and truly assess client needs. Apply analysis of recruitment data to internal team to ensure high level of productivity and progress towards recruitment goals. • Implementation experience for new recruitment partnerships providing overall recruitment process analysis, consultation, and process modeling. Revisit existing processes for areas of improvement and efficiencies through metric tracking between each step of the process. • Coach and lead flexible recruitment team ranging from roughly 5-20+ direct reports. Manage all aspects of team’s operations from administrative tasks such as time cards, to development, and daily huddles. Maintain knowledge of company benefits, HR policies and procedures, and other organizational policies to educate and guide team members. • Develop and lead recruitment teams through professional development frameworks such as formal performance reviews, activity and goal tracking, one on one coaching sessions, and other initiatives. • Client/account management services to multiple healthcare organizations partnering with AMN for staffing and workforce consulting needs. Drive business development for division by partnering with clients to increase staffing orders and constantly expanding position types and services of our delivery teams. ### Recruiter @ AMN Healthcare Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 RPO Division • Account Manager and Recruiter: working with healthcare organizations in the private and non-profit sectors, responsible for planning and implementing all recruitment and staffing processes including marketing, sourcing, resume screening, initial interviews, interview scheduling, offers and negotiation, reference and background checks, HR processes, among others. • Responsible for roughly $30,000 in billings on a monthly basis. • Maintain communication with high-level management such as COOs and Director-level individuals to constantly reevaluate techniques and procedures in order to meet changing demands for staffing needs. • Build relationships with community organizations related to the educational or cultural background requested of candidates. Research local universities and vocational programs to market open positions related to their courses of study and licensing. • Record, analyze, organize, and present data on a weekly and quarterly basis to the Director of HR of the client in order to provide accurate information on current staffing practices, results, and challenges. Identify problem areas and find solutions to improve efficiency and procedures. • Remain knowledgeable of state and federal hiring laws in order to maintain compliance during the interview and hiring processes. Maintain confidentiality when handling applicants’ paperwork containing sensitive identification information. • Act as contact point for salary negotiations, benefits related questions and issues, and other aspects of the recruitment and hiring stages in order to allow the client’s management staff to focus on other pressing issues. ## Education ### Master's in Human Resources and Industrial Relations University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### Bachelor of Science in Psychology; History University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/josh-cook-5268702a --- Source: https://flows.cv/joshcook JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/joshcook/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11