From an early age, I have longed to work with cutting edge technology and during secondary school this focus shifted to software. I like how there will always be something new to learn about that will benefit my work, or generate new ideas, and if there isn’t I can just make it myself. As I continue to try new languages, frameworks, technologies, development principles and methodologies, I find that my university degree is giving me a great grounding in theory to benefit the practical experience I gain in every project I undertake.
Over the past 3 years I have made an effort to attend many events around the industry to build contacts, learn new skills, and gain critical feedback on ideas.
Events I have been to include Riot Hack Nights, Barcamp Southampton, Barcamp Brighton 6, Rewired State: Parliament 2012, DevXS Student Conference and Hack Weekend, Random Hack of Kindness (June and December), Southackton, London Real-Time, the Southampton Appathon, NSConference and National Hack the Govt. Day.
GoSquared is a real-time web analytics service. This summer I spent 4 months working on re-engineering the backend services that handle incoming analytics, making use of Node.js, Redis, Cassandra and more. I investigate the use of Amazon Elastic Map Reduce and competing products, and helped to set up the continuous integration and deployment system used in the company.
Over the summer I worked for 10 weeks at Realmac Software, a well known Mac OS development company. Here I worked on improving their existing app Courier, contributed to code that will be used in future apps, and helped put the finishing touches on Analog. I learnt a lot about the structure of larger applications, dealing with web services and APIs, and about making very high quality, user-experience focused apps.
As part of my role as the leader of the University of Southampton Atheist Society, I was involved in writing the bid to host the AHS’s Annual General Meeting. We won, and over the course of a few months I negotiated accommodation with a local branch of Liberty Living, helped to organise feeding our guests for the weekend, found venues around the university, and arranged the UK premiere of The Ledge as entertainment.
Technical
Objective-C projects in a professional role and on personal projects.Python (Django) and Javascript (Node.js).Java for desktop applications.Non-technical
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