Pj Cook
Lead Software Engineer at John Lewis & Partners
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPj Cook is a seasoned Lead Software Engineer with over two decades in commercial engineering and more than a decade building native iOS experiences since 2009, currently guiding a cross-functional mobile and server-side Swift team at John Lewis. He combines hands-on expertise in Objective‑C, Swift, SwiftUI and Vapor with strong architecture, performance tuning and testing practices to deliver resilient, data-driven mobile platforms. Pj has led and unified geographically distributed teams, designed a CMS-backed homepage architecture, and champions reusable components, pair programming and continuous learning. His background spans agency and enterprise work—from IoT and voice-controlled children’s apps to large retail and airline projects—giving him a rare ability to translate diverse product requirements into maintainable systems. Colleagues rely on him for mentorship, technical strategy and pragmatic decisions around security, localisation and accessibility.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
8 GCSE's, 3 A'Levels, 8 GCSE's, 3 A'Levels at Lady Manners SchoolBSc Honours, Computing for Industry, 2-1, BSc Honours, Computing for Industry, 2-1 at Northumbria University
Github Skills (39)
beautifier9
translation9
django9
internationalization9
localization9
gettext9
swift8
version-control8
server-side8
python8
server-side-swift8
xcode-extension8
formatting8
vapor8
xcode-plugin8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pjcook/Advent-of-Code
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:168 commits, 428 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 1 month
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