Software Engineering Bootcamp Graduate, originally with a background in Asset Management and Startups. As a Full Stack Developer I get to do the things I genuinely enjoy; solving tough problems with creative solutions, being part of a team that works to build amazing things and constantly learning as I go.
Prior to joining Makers I was employee #4 at a successful Health Care startup where I gained first hand experience in Agile methodologies. Additionally, I developed as a leader over time, ultimately managing a large team of people both in the field and in person. Key to our collective success was communication, adapting quickly to new situations, learning from our mistakes and executing on our long term vision.
A few things we achieved:
LaingBuisson Award for Innovation
Also, I have been documenting my big career move here on Medium where you can follow my journey.
A selection of group/solo projects built using Agile methods as well as solo projects
| Name | Description | Group/Solo | Tech/tools | Time to Complete |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trade Vision | A web app that enables users to control the UI, to buy/sell investments, with hand gestures via their webcam and Real Time Object Detection | Paired | Javascript, React, Node, HTML, CSS | 10 Days |
| Sent-ence-iment | A Machine Learning Natural language Processing app that can gauge the positivity/negativity of a phrase provided by the user. | Paired | Python, Flask, Javascript, React | 5 Days |
| Destination Unknown | A travel comparison site that gives you flight prices, itinerary recommendations and more for your destination by aggregating the results from multiple APIs. | Group | Javascript, Node, Express, React, Jest, Cypress, HTML, CSS | 8 Days |
| Acebook | A React social media web app that allows users to register/log in, to post, edit their contents, comment on posts, like posts, delete posts and add friends | Group | Javascript, React, Node, Jest, Cypress, MongoDB, HTML, CSS, Express | 10 Days |
| MakersBnB | AirBnB clone made in week 5 of the course. Users can register, log in, list/rent properties and approve/reject bookings and receive email notifications | Group | Ruby, HTML, CSS, Active Record, RSpec | 4 Days |
| Banking App | Technical test completed to a tight deadline. Allows the user to use core bank features such as deposit/withdraw and print formatted statements | Solo | Javascript, Node, Jest | 2 Day |
| Health Tracker | A programme to aggregate, clean and present timeseries healthcare data for proactive care delivery | Solo | Python, Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn | 5 Days |
| Neural Networks | Deep learning predictive models that predict if a song will be a hit, hotel booking cancellation likelihood and the strength of concrete | Solo | Python, Scikit-learn, Tensorflow, Matplotlib | 2 Weeks |
| News Site | Populates a web app using the Guardian API. The user can view the most recent stories and search by categories, each accompanied with it's photo | Solo | Javascript, Jest, HTML, CSS | 2 Days |
| Shop Manager System | A store system to help create and manage orders | Solo | Ruby, SQL, RSpec | 2 Days |
| Takeaway Order System | The user can browse a menu, place orders and receive text updates via the Twilio API | Solo | Ruby, RSpec, TwilioAPI | 2 Days |
Other technologies and principles include: Agile, OOP, TDD, MVC, DOM, Paired Programming, Tableplus, Postman, Render
Makers (November 2022 - March 2023)
Software Engineering Student
- Makers is an intensive 4 month bootcamp created and run by industry leading engineers. Producing language agnostic, self-sufficient software engineers.
- Learnt key concepts such as Test Driven Development, Object Oriented Programming, Agile and REST APIs. This was taught in conjunction with Full Stack Development using Javascript, React, Node, Ruby, PostgreSQL and Python.
- Working to tight time frames we completed a range of individual, paired programming and team work.
- An extensive EI curriculum focusing on teamwork, empathy and feedback in a technical environment.
Roland Bailey Imports US (July 2020 - July 2022)
Director/Co-Owner
- Created a company that sourced classic cars in Europe, shipped them to the US and sold them.
- Generated over $50,000 in our first 12 months.
- Used our initiative to overcome large logistical and regulatory hurdles to ship the cars ourselves, reducing costs by thousands per vehicle.
Lifted (March 2020 - November 2021)
Operations Manager
- Streamlined business operations and improved inter-team collaboration by implementing new systems and processes. For example, creating a new Recruitment Funnel that cut candidate processing time from 2/3 weeks to 2 days. Allowing us to process ~6x the number of applicants.
- Bug capture, prioritisation and plotting the roadmap across our apps shaping the direction of our tech stack.
- Adopted Agile methodologies for my own team such as daily stand-ups and weekly retros. The weekly retros allowed us to objectively look at how we worked which was crucial to being able to adapt and deal with the consistent fast growth of the company.
- Worked across projects communicating specifications, working on designs and feedback between our Development Team and other stakeholders such as our Health Care and Sales teams.
Lifted (August 2019 - March 2020)
Operations Analyst
- Created a Python Programme to harness the data we had to start delivering pro-active healthcare.
- Oversaw the day-to-day management of our Carers across London. Starting with 5-10 Carers which grew to 25-30 in these early months. Building strong relationships quickly, getting buy-in to our collective mission.
- Responsible for all company finances covering invoices, expenses and company payroll.ur collective mission. From this buy in we were able to really push our growth to help more people.
Parmenion Capital Partners (February 2018 to June 2018)
Operations Associate
- Part of the team responsible for processing all client asset movements accounting for millions of pounds each day.
- Stringent attention to detail with all capital allocations as all daily transactions of millions had to reconcile to the exact correct amount.
- There was a strong culture of accountability and decisive action which helped to build trust both internally and externally. Where any issues were encountered an incident log would be recorded. Analysing why the issue arose, whether it was likely to occur again, our immediate action to resolve it as well as the permanent fix.
Hargreaves Lansdown (January 2017 to February 2018)
Investment Consultant
- Established and developed relationships with clients from a range of backgrounds through face-to-face meetings, phone calls and emails.
- Research and provide information on complex investment products to aid the investment decisions of our clients.
- Responsible for training new Consultants, one-to-one's and performance reviews.
- Won several competitions for new business brought onto the platform.
Blueprint Capital - G7 Currency Markets (January 2015 - November 2016)
Propietary Trader
- Responsible for investing $6 million per week in trading volume across all G7 Currency pairs.
- Rapidly process information to make balanced investment decisions with solid risk management.
- Was the first trader to test out the remote working trading platform. Executing all trades off premises, testing the platform, reporting on issues and suggesting additional features to implement.
- Advanced calculus such as the Black-Scholes Model.
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Modern Portfolio Theory
- Statistics/Econometrics
- Thesis that involved processing 15 years of exchange rate data to model the effectiveness of various trading strategies.
- Dissertation on whether Premier League Strikers are under or over(?!) paid. Spoiler alert: Some are actually underpaid...somehow
- Microeconomic Theory: Opportunity Cost, Production, Innovation and Supply/Demand Model
- Macroeconomic Theory: Classical Economics, Keynesian, Austrian, International Trade
- Game Theory
I’ve always loved playing sport for being part of a bigger team and its competitive aspects. Over time I have played golf, tennis, football and American football.
Outside of programming languages I also like foreign languages and have a 390 day streak of Spanish lessons on Duolingo.