Justin Cooke
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJustin Cooke is a principal-level Java engineer with two decades of experience designing scalable, resilient platforms for financial services, government and other regulated industries. He specialises in greenfield platform challenges—turning complex requirements into clean, event-driven microservice architectures that become long-term strategic assets. Currently focused on lending origination and high-volume financial workflows, he combines modern Java, cloud-native patterns and open-source platforms to enable rapid product innovation and operational resilience. As a consultant and former programme lead for £50m+ transformations across UK policing and justice, he brings hands-on delivery, solution architecture and stakeholder stewardship to large, mission-critical modernisations. He also blends full‑stack skills (React + Java) with emergent tech like Generative AI and AWS Amplify in consumer-facing projects, showing a curious appetite for applied innovation beyond finance. Based in London, Justin pairs deep technical craft with pragmatic leadership to simplify complex systems and accelerate delivery.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of Sussex
Github Skills (25)
cqrs10
messaging10
event-sourcing10
java10
raml10
maven-plugin9
maven9
eventstore7
google5
tooling5
terraform4
parent-pom4
k8s4
wiremock3
kubernetes3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
skiddykong/amplify-vite-react-template
May 2024 - Jan 2025
My Amplify Gen 2 starter application
Contributions:12 PRs, 64 pushes, 9 branches in 7 months
skiddykong/multi-docker
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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