Ella Cooper

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VP of Engineering, Quartz Ops - AWS · Kubernetes · Go

Quartz Ops
Seattle, WA · PT (UTC-8)
11+ years experience
UC Berkeley
English
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Overview

I lead cloud infrastructure at Quartz Ops in Seattle. Wrote the Terraform service that now handles 45 million requests a day. Before that: Capital One and Snap. Most at home with incident response and Go.

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Skills
KubernetesTerraformincident responseAWSGo
HiringHiring for a role
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Building out infrastructure at Quartz Ops: SREs wanted in Seattle

Role
SRE
Level
Mid
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$154k-$221k + equity
Team
Infrastructure, 12 people
Start
Within two months
Must have
Production experience with Terraform Production experience with Go Good judgment about what not to build
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp $148k-$289k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Seattle, WAkubernetesincident responseterraform
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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    May 2026 - Present
    Quartz Ops · 5 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Moved 89% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 32 minutes to under 4.
    • Cut p99 latency on the infrastructure services from 413ms to 114ms.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Apr 2023 - May 2026
    Capital One · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Reduced cloud spend on infrastructure by 25% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 45 minutes to under 5.
  3. Principal Engineer
    Apr 2021 - Apr 2023
    Snap · 2 yr · Contract · Seattle, WA
    • Previously an operator for 10 years before investing.
  4. Director of Engineering
    Mar 2018 - Apr 2021
    Robinhood · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Moved 95% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Jun 2015 - Mar 2018
    KPMG · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Seattle, WA
    • Previously an operator for 11 years before investing.

Projects

Side project: a budgeting app
2025

Built with AWS and incident response. 1368 people used it last year.

Open-source incident response toolkit
2024

A small library for cloud infrastructure that 852 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. UC Berkeley
    BA, Electronics and Communication
    1994 - 1998

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