Josh Cooke
Engineering Lead - Business Banking at Starling Bank
Letchworth, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJosh Cooke is an experienced engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on Java and data engineering experience, currently heading Business Banking engineering at Starling Bank. He combines low-latency trading systems expertise from Barclays with large-scale distributed systems and ETL/data warehouse design, having progressed from Java developer to Practice Lead for Data Engineering. At Starling he leads teams owning Open Banking, OAuth, Confirmation of Payee and marketplace integrations, balancing technical direction with product-driven delivery. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he brings deep familiarity with messaging systems, time-series analysis and building asset-agnostic trading platforms—skills that surface in robust, reliable APIs and data pipelines. Based in Letchworth, he pairs a Warwick MEng in Computer Science with a track record of shipping production-critical financial systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels, Mathematics A, Computing A, Physics A, A-Levels, Mathematics A, Computing A, Physics A at Greenhead CollegeMaster of Engineering (MEng) Hons, Computer Science, Upper Second Class (2:1), Master of Engineering (MEng) Hons, Computer Science, Upper Second Class (2:1) at University of Warwick
Spanish, French
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Github Skills (94)
python10
perl10
jwt-authentication10
ruby10
avro10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
high-performance10
database10
json10
java10
serialization10
csharp10
pool10
jdbc10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
icecreamhead/adventofcode
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
icecreamhead/londoncitypool
Nov 2019 - Jul 2024
London City Pool [Hugo]
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 70 pushes in 4 years 8 months
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