Skills | Projects | Education | Experience
I am a recent Makers graduate looking for a role where I am challenged constantly to better myself and where I am working with people who I can learn from. Programming allows me to challenge myself both logically - when coming up with a solution to a problem - and creatively - when figuring out an elegant solution to said problem. I love the idea of creating usable products and gain great satisfaction from the result and problem solving to get there.
Tech Skills: React, Node.js, Express, Mocha, Chai, Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, RSpec, Capybara, JavaScript, Jasmine, jQuery, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL
Many of my previous roles have relied upon my communication skills, from being an English Tutor to Recruitment Consultant to working with fellow developers at Makers Academy. They have required me to interact with team members or clients in a range of different situations.
After university, I decided to go to Rio de Janeiro where I had no contacts upon arrival. Due to my determination and motivation to succeed, after a couple of months I was able to establish myself as a self-employed English tutor with a network of students.
For our final project at Makers Academy, I learnt Node.js, express and React without being taught on the course. Using it to build a fully functioning social search app in two weeks, implementing features from back-end to front-end.
| Project | Description | Technologies |
|---|---|---|
| Take-a-Paws | A social search app that brings together dog lovers. | Javascript, Node.js, React, socket.io, express, Sequelize, PostgreSQL, Mocha, Chai, Supertest |
| Photo Viewer | A photo viewing app with an image carousel and search function. | React, CSS and Jest |
| Cooking Up A Storm | An app that uses machine learning to recommend the user a style of cuisine to cook, given a list of ingredients. | Python, Ruby, jQuery, HTML, and CSS |
| Makersbnb | A clone of Airbnb. | Ruby, RSpec, Capybara, Sinatra, DataMapper |
A 12 week intensive web development course at Europe's leading web developer bootcamp. The course is highly competitive, accepting only 10% of applicants, and emphasises the following practices:
- Agile methodologies
- XP values
- Focus on TDD and OOD
- Full stack development
- Pair programming
- MVC framework patterns
- 2:1 BSc (Hons) Psychology
- Cambridge English Language Teaching for Adults (CELTA)
- A Levels: Mathematics (A), Psychology (A), Economics (B)
Venn Group (January 2017 to July 2017)
Recruitment Consultant
Grafton Banks (July 2016 to September 2016)
Assistant Recruitment Consultant
Self Employed in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (November 2015 to June 2016)
English Tutor
OMD UK (August 2015 to September 2015)
Intern