Chris Cook
Technical Development Director at Electronic Arts (EA)
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Cook is a technical product leader with 11 years of experience building front-end-first SaaS products and scaling product organizations. He co-founded Certn’s web platform and later established and led its Product department, blending hands-on React engineering with strategic roadmap and team-building work. Now a Technical Development Director at Electronic Arts, he combines UX sensibility, data-driven product design, and engineering discipline to deliver high-quality, performant user experiences. Chris is active in the Victoria tech community, volunteers mentoring youth in coding, and brings experience as a live Battlesnake commentator—evidence of his appetite for playful, competitive coding and public-facing technical storytelling. His background includes commercial work on complex security and retail applications, and a B.SEng. with distinction from the University of Victoria.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Software Engineering (B.SEng.), Management Option, With Distinction, Bachelor of Software Engineering (B.SEng.), Management Option, With Distinction at University of Victoria
English
Github Skills (62)
typescript9
twisted9
api9
react9
boilerplate9
docker8
rest-api8
django8
python8
rest8
react-components8
ui-components8
antd7
testing7
javascript7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
geoapi/mangiamo
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
Repository for startup programming, csc485b@UVic
Contributions:127 commits in 2 months
uvic
chrisjcook/SENG490
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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