Tony Cook
Software Developer at The Perl Foundation
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Cook is a seasoned software developer with 25 years of experience, based in the Greater Sydney Area, who focuses on core systems, portability, and build infrastructure. Since 2013 he has contributed to and diagnosed issues in the Perl core at The Perl Foundation, tackling parser bugs, configuration and installation problems, cross-platform file handling, and CI error reporting. His open-source work on the high-profile perl5 repository includes improving testing and build tooling, adding install controls, and addressing platform-specific quirks on Darwin and Win32. Tony combines deep systems-level insight with a practical mindset for stabilizing long-lived language ecosystems and reviewing community patches. A UTS graduate with second-class honours in Computer Science, he brings steady, behind-the-scenes craftsmanship that reduces operational risk for language runtimes. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic fixes that keep complex build and installation flows working across diverse platforms.
25 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Second class honours, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Second class honours at University of Technology Sydney
Github Skills (12)
perl10
build-automation10
testing10
win649
cicd9
pthreads-win329
win32com9
pywin329
win32gui9
win2d9
file-handling9
darwin8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Perl/perl5
Jul 2013 - Jan 2023
🐪 The Perl programming language
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1350 reviews, 143 commits, 630 PRs in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Tony primarily contributed to the Perl programming language repository by modifying testing and build infrastructure. Their work included adding options to control module installation, fixing issues related to Darwin systems, and improving error reporting within the CI/CD pipeline. The user also addressed issues related to file handling and symbolic links on the Win32 platform, improving the overall stability and functionality of the Perl build process. Additionally, the user updated ExtUtils::CBuilder and its related modules.
macrosperl5compilerperlprogramming-language
tonycoz/imager
Jan 2011 - Oct 2022
Imager - image manipulation from perl.
Contributions:4 reviews, 1371 commits, 4 PRs in 11 years 10 months
manipulationimageimage-manipulationimage-processingperl
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