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Cook Coding

Let's cook.Joe Cook, Forward Deployed Engineer.

Websites, custom software, and private AI for local businesses, restaurants, ministries, and nonprofits. Built inside the business, on your systems, with your real data, and kept running after launch.

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Also hired as

  • Full Stack Engineer
  • Software Engineer
  • Web Developer
  • AI Engineer
  • Mobile Developer
  • Systems Architect

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Websites
Fast, mobile-first, easy to find. Built to turn a search into a call, a booking, or an order.
Custom software
The tool the business actually runs on. Scheduling, dashboards, staff and member portals.
Local AI systems
Private models running on your own hardware. Your documents stay in your building. No per-seat bill, nothing leaving the network.

Audits and rescue work as well: an honest read on an inherited or stalled codebase, then hands-on fixes.

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How I work.

  • The engineer you talk to is the engineer who builds it.
  • Design, build, deploy, maintain: one owner for the whole system.
  • Built on your systems, around your workflow and your real data.
  • Large projects ship in phases, each one live before the next begins.
  • Working software in production, not a recommendation deck.

Joe Cook, coding since 2018 · Cook Coding, LLC · TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, React Native, Local LLMs

Live demo

A full restaurant site you can click through: menu, online ordering, catering, and reservations.

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