Dean Cook
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDean Cook is a versatile software engineer with 12 years’ experience building low-level, high-performance systems and user-facing applications, now based in Berlin. He has shipped production-grade work across embedded, mobile, backend and cloud environments—from implementing GigE camera interfaces and GPU-backed AI inference to scaling high-throughput tracking systems and GraphQL feeds. At companies from Wire to Gestalt Automation and WG2 he improved CI speeds by 100x, introduced robust testing and security patterns, and mentored teams while owning complex features end-to-end. His focus on local-first, sovereignty-preserving technology shapes his choice of problems and motivates pragmatic, human-centered engineering. Comfortable working solo across distributed teams, he thrives on untangling legacy systems and turning protocol- or hardware-level constraints into reliable products.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at The University of Western AustraliaBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Civil Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Civil Engineering at Australian Defence Force AcademyHigh School Certificate, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Geography and Literature, High School Certificate, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Geography and Literature at All Saint's College
English, German
Github Skills (82)
android-gradle-plugin10
svg10
charts10
isomorphic10
android10
d3js10
canvas10
react10
duolingo9
data-visualization9
firefox-webextension9
visualization9
css9
google-chrome-extension9
android-plugin9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
wireapp/scala-utils
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:59 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
jvmscalajavasignalsthreading
deanrobertcook/nutcase
Nov 2015 - Jun 2018
A simple test case management system with a RESTful API
Contributions:6 PRs, 24 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 7 months
spring-bootapimanagement-systemrestfulcase-management
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