George Cook
Owner, Technical Director at TantaWowa Ltd
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Cook is a seasoned software architect and founder with over two decades of engineering experience and more than a decade focused on Roku and OTT platforms. As owner and Technical Director of TantaWowa Ltd, he designs elegant, high-performance Roku applications and has created influential open-source tools like the rooibos unit testing framework, maestro-framework, and contributions to the brighterscript language. He has led architecture and platform work for major clients (NBA, Under Armour, Smithsonian Channel) and helped shape Applicaster’s turnkey Roku solution, spanning ads, payments, GraphQL integrations, and dynamic UI paradigms. Comfortable across full-stack and embedded media ecosystems, he pairs hands-on implementation with team leadership, onboarding, and developer tooling. Known in the Roku community as an inventor and organizer (owner of the Roku Slack group), he treats platform limitations as opportunities to innovate and scale maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BSc 2:1 (hons) Computer Science, BSc 2:1 (hons) Computer Science at University of Kent
Spanish
Stackoverflow
180reputation
6kreached
2answers
4questions
Github Skills (142)
visual-studio-code-extension10
brightscript10
test-framework10
roku10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
rider9
application-launcher9
visual-studio9
launcher9
visual-studio-code9
maestro9
unity3d8
adobe-xd8
superset8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
georgejecook/roku-log-bsc-plugin
Oct 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:9 releases, 1 review, 16 PRs in 3 years 6 months
applicaster-plugins/zapp-roku-plugins
Feb 2020 - Mar 2025
Repo for Applicaster Roku plugins
Contributions:132 reviews, 95 PRs, 413 pushes in 5 years 1 month
applicasterroku
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