Andrew Cook

About Andrew Cook

I enjoying providing hands-on engineering leadership to technology-forward organizations. My background is in the gaming sector, but I have a strong passion for any interactive media projects or organizations with a startup mentality. I thrive in any environment where I can fully utilize my experience growing small business ventures into larger teams and companies.Most recently, my experience includes managing cross-discipline engineering teams with the goal of optimizing the development, deployment, and operations of cloud services. Some of the challenges have included building hybrid on-prem/cloud build systems to deploy Infrastructure as Code, designing secure artifact distribution systems for multi-site/remote studios, and orchestrating the operational processes for multiple live games and services. Questions I Love Being Asked About - How would you describe your leadership style- What cloud technology should my project use now while prototyping versus when in production- What kind of engineering skills do I need to hire and when?

Experience

1. Supervising Lead Backend Programmer

   Bethesda Game Studios

   Nov 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US

   Led multi-discipline international teams to develop scalable gaming and infrastructure backends. • Spearheaded the creation of a new development infrastructure, enhancing collaboration across 4 continents. • Implemented Azure DevOps automations and distributed Perforce systems, etc.

Education

• DePaul University

  B.S., Computer Game Development

  2008 — 2012

Skills

• Hlsl
• Game Development
• Perforce
• Iphone
• Game Design
• Objective-C
• Jenkins Ci
• Go
• Mobile Games
• Software Engineering
• Programming
• Hot Tubs
• Visual Studio
• Unity3d
• Gameplay
• Git
• Glsl
• Directx
• Web Services
• Python
• Video Games
• Unreal Engine 3
• Facebook Api
• Winforms
• C#
• Computer Games
• Cross-Platform Development
• Game Programming
• Opengl
• Java
• Ruby
• Social Games
• Ruby on Rails
• Mobile Applications
• Jenkins
• Xna
• C++