Summary
Cooper Buckingham is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building enterprise UI frameworks at Guidewire using TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, and React. He specializes in developer-facing tools and large-scale refactors, turning messy code into reusable classes and libraries to improve long-term maintainability. His background spans game design and systems at EA, Sony Online Entertainment, and indie leadership at Idea Fabrik, giving him a strong product-first perspective on UX and system architecture. Outside of work he prototypes games and tooling—publishing an iOS game and a JavaScript game prototyping framework—demonstrating a continual habit of shipping playful, reusable code. Based in Rocklin, CA, he blends creative writing training with technical craft, often applying narrative thinking to UI and developer experience problems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programming, Computer Programming at De Anza College
Johns Hopkins University
UNSW Sydney