Oliver Cooper
Chief Technology Officer at Freelance (Self employed)
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOliver Cooper is a hands-on Chief Technology Officer and .NET developer with eight years of professional experience building full-stack and embedded solutions from the UK. He leads technology at Aloe Software while freelancing as a software engineer, combining strategic leadership with day-to-day coding and system administration—he personally maintains a home lab with routers, switches, VMs, DHCP/DNS and file shares. An active open-source contributor, Oliver has improved enterprise ASP.NET tooling in the popular ABP framework and added Zigbee device support and optimisations to the deCONZ REST plugin, reflecting both web and embedded systems expertise. He values continuous learning and holds a BEng from Sheffield Hallam University, while his hobbies—landscape photography, cycling and camping—inform a practical, observant approach to problem solving. Notably, his contributions span front-end Angular fixes to low-level device battery reporting tweaks, showing an ability to navigate both user-facing UX issues and device-specific constraints.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) at Sheffield Hallam UniversityAS/A2 Level, AS/A2 Level at Cheadle & Marple 6th Form CollegeLevel 3 Diploma, Level 3 Diploma at The Source Skills Academy
Github Skills (24)
application-framework10
deco10
javascript10
app-framework10
typescript10
asp-net-core10
sys10
typescript-types10
dotnet-core10
web-framework10
embedded10
zigbee10
typescripts10
csharp10
home-automation10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
abpframework/abp
Nov 2019 - Feb 2021
Open-source web application framework for ASP.NET Core! Offers an opinionated architecture to build enterprise software solutions with best practices on top of the .NET. Provides the fundamental infrastructure, cross-cutting-concern implementations, startup templates, application modules, UI themes, tooling and documentation.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 35 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Oliver contributed to both front-end and back-end aspects of the ABP framework. Their work included fixing form value assignments in Angular components and integrating Angular 9 `@Injectable()` annotations. They also made changes to C# code, adding `virtual` to a DTO and addressing MySqlConnector compatibility. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the email validation regex and enhanced the DataTable.Net AJAX Adapter function.
web-applicationc-sharpdomain-driven-designblazorweb-application-framework
dresden-elektronik/deconz-rest-plugin
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
deCONZ REST-API plugin to control ZigBee devices
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer / Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:7 commits, 114 comments, 4 issues in 6 days
Contributions summary:Oliver primarily contributed to the deCONZ REST-API plugin, focusing on the integration and support of Zigbee-based devices, especially Osram Lightify and other OSRAM smart home products. Their work involved updating button mappings and adding support for new remote versions. These updates include identifying and addressing the nuances of these devices' specific button functionalities for the Zigbee network. They modified the code to optimize battery reporting intervals on supported devices.
conbeehome-automationiobrokerfritzboxraspberry-pi
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