Pete Cook
Co-Founder at Rota.fit Ltd
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPete Cook is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder with 13 years of experience building web and mobile products across startups and scale-ups in the UK. He blends frontend craftsmanship with backend tooling—shipping user-facing interfaces at companies like Benefex and Monolith while contributing backend features to open-source projects such as auto-changelog. As Co-Founder of Rota.fit since 2020 he combines product-minded engineering with hands-on delivery, previously holding senior engineering roles at Infogrid and Ben. His work shows a practical focus on developer experience, having improved changelog generation, templating, and package-versioning in community tooling. Pete holds a BSc in Computing and Management from Loughborough University and brings an operator’s mindset: comfortable switching between code, product decisions, and running a business.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) DPS, Computing and Management, BSc (Hons) DPS, Computing and Management at Loughborough University
Github Skills (6)
command-line-tool10
git10
javascript10
nodejs10
sem8
handlebars8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cookpete/auto-changelog
Dec 2015 - Mar 2022
Command line tool for generating a changelog from git tags and commit history
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 291 commits, 66 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pete primarily contributed to the development of a command-line tool for generating changelogs. Their work included adding functionality for specifying output files, supporting package versioning from package.json, and enhancing the template system. They also addressed bugs related to the package versioning feature and improved the overall formatting and output of the generated changelogs.
command-line-toolchangelogcommitsconventional-changelogrelease-management
cookpete/chrome-prevent-fixup-merge
Jun 2015 - Apr 2018
Chrome extension to prevent merging fixup commits.
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
commitschromemergingpreventmerge
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