About

Andrew Cook is an experienced application programmer and Lead Backend Services Engineer at Bethesda Game Studios. He has a strong background in developing full stacks, with a focus on interactive media development such as simulations and computer games. Andrew is skilled in using graphics APIs such as OpenGL and DirectX 10, as well as working with a programmable graphics pipeline using GLSL and HLSL. He has extensive experience with Unity3D, both in an academic setting and on professional projects. Andrew also has a fair amount of experience with automated build system design and development, including automating the deployment of multi-staged web apps, mobile apps, and backend server data deployments using a variety of python, php, bash, and ruby scripts that run off of a Jenkins CI setup. He is passionate about making computers work as slaves for the human race and loves utilizing the latest and greatest scripting languages. Currently, Andrew's specialties include game server development in Golang utilizing Couchbase and Redis. In his free time, he enjoys building scalable web applications utilizing technologies such as Node.js and Golang on the AWS platform. He is interested in utilizing the range of AWS services such as Kinesis Firehouse and Elastic MapReduce to collect and analyze big data from games. Andrew's past experience includes working as a Senior Backend Services Engineer at Bethesda Game Studios and Battlecry Studios. As a senior member of the platform services team, he managed the day-to-day operations of a team of engineers, architected and developed micro-services in Go to support the backend of Fallout 76, and assisted in developing companywide processes for dealing with customer service, incident resolution, resource management, code quality, and employee on-boarding. Andrew holds a B.S. in Computer Game Development from DePaul University. His tech stack includes Backend, AWS, Web, Golang, MapReduce, Big Data, Redis, Javascript, PHP, Jenkins, Mobile, Microservices, Senior Software Engineer, test, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, and Docker. With 14.46 years of relevant experience, Andrew is a valuable addition to any R&D team.