Will Cook
Web Developer
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolWill Cook is a web developer with a decade of cross-disciplinary experience building user-focused digital products, from full-stack Python/Django backends to React/Next.js frontends and AWS infrastructure. Trained at General Assembly in London and a former teaching assistant there, he blends hands-on coding with mentorship and a clear focus on making technology accessible. His background in design, fabrication and project management gives him a practical edge in turning concepts into polished, production-ready experiences under tight deadlines. At Octave and AMPP Group he shipped client platforms and internal tooling, working closely with stakeholders to solve complex problems using data, design and code. Outside work he’s undertaken adventurous travel and long cycle tours, reflecting a restless curiosity and resilience that informs his approach to engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development, Web Development Immersive, Web Development at General AssemblyBachelor's of Design, Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor's of Design, Industrial and Product Design at Massey University
English
Github Skills (40)
django9
robot9
python8
user-experience8
hardware8
heist8
nodejs7
cms7
graphql-yoga7
ports7
wagtail7
backend7
flexibility7
node-serialport6
react6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
willcook4/e-commerce-graphql
Dec 2019 - Feb 2020
E-commerce Site, React JS and Apollo Client on the Front-end and GraphQL Yoga and Prisma on the backend.
Contributions:108 commits, 4 PRs, 71 pushes in 2 months
graphql-yogareact-jsreact-sitereactjsfront-end
willcook4/goldielocks-fe
Jul 2018 - Jan 2020
Goldielocks React Frontend
Contributions:10 PRs, 24 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 6 months
reactjsreactfrontendreact-frontend
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