George Cook

5.0

(16 reviews)

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ABOUT ME

Experienced Software Engineer and consultant, specializing in mobile and AR/VR

Hello! I'm George Cook. I love engineering high quality code. I take great pride in my craft, and produce highly extensible and maintainable applications. I'm extremely good at refactoring apps - I'll get into that below; but if you're a serious organization, and your code is getting stale, or hard to work with, then getting you back on track is one of my specialties, and I'd love to help you!

I'm really enthusiastic about Roku development in general : really - and I've got the goods to prove it :) ! Here's some of the things I've done/do:

Wrote a beautiful unit testing framework for brightscript developers, called rooibos - it's based on Mocha, and it's awesome - I use it all the time to keep my productivity high and deliver quality code
Heavily contributed to the Brightscript langage vscode extension, which is the number 1 ide extension for roku developers
Shared navigation examples, and MVVM code in my public navigation example
Wrote a logging framework, tailored to brightscript and roku development, called rLog
Wrote a lightweight processor, a bit like awk, just for brightscript, named burp
Started the popular, and awesome Roku developer slack group

Some of my Roku work
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I've proudly delivered work for companies you know:

My Roku experience includes
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Application architecture
Full cycle development
Continuous integration, and professional build processes, leveraging gulp and other build systems, with jenkins/travis, etc
TDD development, and supporting patterns
Front end work, both general, framework and advanced UI components
Performance optimization
Integration with Roku and 3rd party authentication, and analytics such as:
- Google IMA
- Adobe AdMobile
- RokuPay
- Youbora analytics
- Cleeng payment processing
- Other 3rd party solutions
Custom video components and controls
Advanced analytics integrations
Graphql, json, XML, and RSS feed consumption
4k, HLS and live streaming
Advanced application debugging
and more...

Some of my other work
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I've done years of Xamarin development, pushing the envelope on cross platform performance, and had a hugely successful blog series and cross platform library
AR/VR in Unity3d, for Oculus and Vive - I spent a year making a few VR games, like The Incredible VR Gameshow
iOS, I've done advanced objective c apps, making the worlds first AR video editor (I made it way too early; but that's life :/ ), and a whole bunch of other realtime video, video players, imovie clones, amongst others
Worked in Banking, pharms, military over a 20 year career
Did almost a year doing full-stack js with a kafka-based micro-architecure, contracting to UnderArmour
Was a consultant for Adobe's own consulting group, specializing in Flex

UX/Business processes/Design/Architecture/
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I've been involved in startups and huge organizations, on products and services
I've launched my own products
As such I've got a wide array of skills, and solid Software Development Principles and can successfully interact across a wide range of roles
Been working remotely for a decade, so I know how to get things done when not physically present
Take pride in training other's in the best Practices and Processes and teaching them how/why to be a Principled software engineer
Have a diverse set of software skills and have good level's in a broad range of languages

Refactoring failing code bases/getting software back on track
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I started coding when I was 6, 35 years ago. I'm as passionate now as I was then; but I've got a whole lot of acumen, and natural coding talent. That allows me to hold extremely large codebases in my head, even crazy-insane, poorly architected ones, and rewrite them over a few weeks. Over my career I built a solid name for being able to come into a project, understand the current code, identify the issues, and refactor the codebase, with low regression risk, while converting unmaintainable code bases to highly maintainable one's with solid patterns.

I love that kind of work as well - if you've got a project in dire straits, and don't want to lose a fortune; then take advantage of my experience, OCD and my wife's ability to let me disappear for a few 70 hour weeks: you will never regret it :D

Let's talk!
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I probably sound arrogant; but I want you to know what a great benefit I will be to you and your project - I offer a lot more besides these tidbits here. Why not ping me on mail/roku slack group/linked in, and we can further chat. I really like people and computer software and I work on every project as if it were my own: as far as I'm concerned; your success is my success. So get in touch!, and let's see what I can do to help.

Spanish, English

Quito (-05:00)

Joined March 2018

EXPERTISE

Roku

1 year experience

Created tv channels in Brightscript (roku's programming language). Also created a Unit testing framework and preprocessor to improve the ...

Created tv channels in Brightscript (roku's programming language). Also created a Unit testing framework and preprocessor to improve the language's usability development efficiency.

BrightScriptOtttvOS

BrightScriptOtttvOSBig screen

5 years experience | 1 endorsement

I was coding c# way back in the ASP.net days; before taking a break to work on other things. In 2011, I came back to C# to make games in ...

I was coding c# way back in the ASP.net days; before taking a break to work on other things. In 2011, I came back to C# to make games in Unity3d, and then branched into streaming WebRTC video services, and later Xamarin. These days I write high level c# for Unity3d and mobile.

Async.js Unity NuGet

Async.js Unity NuGet JSONWebrctUnit Testing Generics Xamarin Xamarin.Forms

JavaScript

15 years experience

Been writing javascript since back in the day. Always dipped in and out of it, from writing front end javascript in my Ruby days, flash s...

Been writing javascript since back in the day. Always dipped in and out of it, from writing front end javascript in my Ruby days, flash software (Actionscript was Ecmascript afterall), and then nodejs, and full stack. Really cut my teeth with almost a year of full stack, microservices architecture experience at Under Armour, which was huge project leveraging just about every hip javascript technology there is.

Es6 npm Node.js

Es6 npm Node.js Apache Kafka Underscore.jsCloud technology & infrastructure managementMicroservices Mocha

Unity

7 years experience

My passion is Virtual reality and games. I've been coding games since I was 6 years old. Unity3d is the ultimate democratization of video...

My passion is Virtual reality and games. I've been coding games since I was 6 years old. Unity3d is the ultimate democratization of video game creation and now is the best time to learn. I made mobile games, using Unity for several years, before getting more serious and creating a cutting edge Mobile AR title and kids educational books/games. About a year and half ago I started to focus full time on my games company, and heavily focused on VR. I can help you to learn the right way to use unity3d for VR, and help you learn ways to structure your Unity3d projects like a pro. I've grafted long and hard to get the best practices that lead to satisfying Unity dev and can help you kick start your Unity3d development. If you are an indie, or an enterprise looking to equip a Unity team, and want to shortcut years of time, learning how to get highly productive and where to focus to realize your Unity goals, especially in VR, then I've got you covered.

Mobile App Development AR VR

Mobile App Development AR VR C#Game Game Design Animation 3D Graphics Vrtk

Xamarin.Forms

2 years experience

I spearheaded an initiaitve to adopt Xamarin at Twin Technologies, and while there wrote an extensive library that solved many of Xamarin...

I spearheaded an initiaitve to adopt Xamarin at Twin Technologies, and while there wrote an extensive library that solved many of Xamarin Forms performance issues and expanded upon it's versatility. I recorded videos, wrote exhaustive multi-thousand word blog posts series and shared huge github repos, which are still popular to this day. I pushed the envelope as far as it could on Forms, ultimately leveraging my library to create pip video playback with live streaming video chat, web browsing, games, twitter feeds and more. Along the way I developed best practices and solved the most difficult problems in forms, all while architecting with reuse and long term codebase support in mind. I have personally trained several others with this experience, presented publicly, and shared my work with countless others: I'll be happy to do the same with you. I'm available for both guidance and trouble-shooting.

Front-End Xamarin C#

Front-End Xamarin C#iOS AndroidCross platform

Objective-C

7 years experience

Made several apps since 2011, including a highly integrated AR/Video editing apps, music projects, wond a guardian newspaper hackathon, m...

Made several apps since 2011, including a highly integrated AR/Video editing apps, music projects, wond a guardian newspaper hackathon, made some games, loads of custom component work for cross platform Xamarin too.

Cocos2d Cocoa Touch CocoaPods

REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS

5.0

(16 reviews)

April 2018

VR Expert in StreamVR and VRTK today. I am really thank you today:)

Sibel Basar

April 2018

I had an excellent first session today with George. He immediately understood my issue and explained step by step how I shall proceed with my Unity/Hololens project. George is very knowledgable and very helpful. I now have an better overview and an idea for my further work. I will definitely contact George again with my next issue.

April 2018

George taught me how to use VIVE setting up in Unity3D rather than using complex logic and we figure out RayCast overlap collider to resolve gameobject problems. It is really usefull for me

Jun Lee

March 2018

He is the sweetest tutor I've ever had. He will keep working until you're satisfied. DON'T HESITATE TO TALK TO HIM :)

Removed User

March 2018

This was my first time working with George, and he did such a great job. I would definitely request him again

March 2018

The second session, I have learned his professional development Unity3D knowledge and he taught me a lot of Unity3D secrets

March 2018

George is a fantastic mentor. The first class I have learned a lot of experience about Unity3D. He is patient to talk about deep knowledge. Looking forward to seeing next class:)

SOCIAL PRESENCE

GitHub

xamarinFastCell

fast view cell implementation for iOS that's really performance friendly, yet allows you to write cells in xaml.

iOSFBOToAVAssetWriterTextureCacheSpike

example of how to write out opengles FBO to avasset writer using ios's fast texture cache - same thing used by gpuimage

Objective-C

Community Posts

Using custom PlayableBehaviours to create an event mechanism for Unity's Timeline

Join me as I cover the What, Why and How of adding events to Unity3d's timeline system. You will learn about implementing custom timeline events, and we'll lay a foundation for a series of blog posts that explore "Timeline-orientated-design" in Unity3d.

How I improved Unity3d Timelines, with events that call arbitrary code

How I loved to embrace timeline, and create utils and patterns to make this a first tier component of my professional Unity development.

EMPLOYMENTS

Technical Director

Tantawowa

2013-01-01-Present

I LOVE AR/VR and so took a one year sabbatical to get my chops in Unity3d for creating AR and VR games. I released 2 titles from 2017-201...

I LOVE AR/VR and so took a one year sabbatical to get my chops in Unity3d for creating AR and VR games. I released 2 titles from 2017-2018. I invested this time as it's clear to me that AR/MR/XR are going to be the future of how we interact with computers and the only way to get those skills down was to take it from hobby project (I'd been making iOS games for several years) to reality (took the hard knocks, done the learning, battle tested and ready).

iOS

Xamar

Senior Consultant

Twin Technologies

2011-11-01-2016-12-01

With Twin, I worked on a number of projects for various clients, including startups and established brands in various sectors. I was resp...

With Twin, I worked on a number of projects for various clients, including startups and established brands in various sectors. I was responsible for delivering cross platform Xamarin mobile apps, leveraging Brightcove technologies to write iOS wrappers for various companies, produce mobile apps that specialized in real-time audio video streaming, collaboration and communication, full stack microarchitecture javascript development for highly scalable ecommerce solutions. I won consultant of the year and innovator of the year awards during my tenure and was very active and passionate about working with such a wonderful group of people.

Android

Xamarin

Full Stack

Android

Xamarin

Full Stack

VoIP

WebRTC

React

Xamarin.Forms

iOS

Senior Consultant

Adobe Consulting

2006-10-01-2009-06-01

I started as a consultant specializing in delivering flex solutions. For the first 2 years I was contracted on site and off site exclusiv...

I started as a consultant specializing in delivering flex solutions. For the first 2 years I was contracted on site and off site exclusively to Adobe Professional Services, and as such had the honor of working with and learning from some of the greatest developers in the UK flex scene. I undertook long and short projects (longest 1 year) delivering RIAs in Flex 3 and 4, using Remote Objects over LCDS and integrating with MQ and lightstreamer, and other backend services, for clients including Sky, the British Meteoroligical Office and Morgan Stanley. In this time I have written countless custom components, skinned various interfaces, architected application tiers while producing quality code. I have worked on code improvement task forces in several projects dealing with issues of maintainability, scalability and performance. I also created an opensource actionsript parser to aid debugging (fxTramp).

Java

XML

OOP

Java

XML

OOP

Apache Flex

Consulting

PROJECTS

The Incredible VR GameshowView Project

Tantwowa

2017

I pushed my VR experience to the next level by writing 10 mini games, and wrapping it all up in a TV Gameshow experience. This project wa...

I pushed my VR experience to the next level by writing 10 mini games, and wrapping it all up in a TV Gameshow experience. This project was a labour of love, in which I formulated my current set of best practices for Unity3d VR development with VRTK.

Game

Game Design

Game

Game Design

VR Coaster ExtremeView Project

Tantawowa

2017

VR roller coaster experience for Oculus and VIve