Christopher Cook

Senior Director

Responsible AI + Software Developer

What inspires me

Impact: Building trustworthy AI and decision-support systems that make a positive impact in the world.

Experimentation and Problem Solving: Stress-testing plans and systems with an adversarial lens—and turning hard lessons into practical improvements

Communication and Networking: Translating complex technical signals (and uncertainty) into decisions teams can act on with confidence

In Demand Skills

AI Engineering; Data Analytics; Data Generation; Red-Teaming; Pentesting; Deployment/Integration Strategies; Operation Risk Mitigation; CI/CD Pipelining; Project Management

Adage

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”
–Sir Isaac New
“It is important to follow your dreams and heart. Do something that excites you.”
–Sundar Pichai

Bio

Christopher Cook is a strategic AI and engineering leader at Frontier focused on AI safety–bringing adversarial thinking, rigorous evaluation, and risk informed deployment practices to high stakes real-world systems. He has a proven record designing, delivering, testing, and scaling machine learning models, data analytics pipelines, statistical algorithms, and full-stack software for federal, state, and commercial programs where reliability and trust are non-negotiable.

His work at Frontier Design focuses on systematic evaluation, red-teaming, data generation, and structured risk assessment to help organizations understand, build, and responsibly integrate advanced AI into complex operations. He combines deep technical expertise with human-centered training and decision frameworks to improve how teams learn from adversarial tests and make sound operational decisions in uncertain environments.

Frontier uses this assessment to identify our unique strengths and maximize our teamliness - how we collaborate effectively as cross-functional teams. We often pair colleagues with opposite strengths to turbocharge our creativity and impact.

Over 90% of Fortune 500 companies have used the CliftonStrengths assessment to improve their workplace and meaningfully engage their employees.

Christopher’s Clifton Strengths

Coming soon