Experience
Moving to the UK in 2023, my initial stomping ground was working at the spoons in Burton upon Trent. Funnily enough, that job didn't make the list below.
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#Founding member of the development team building a biometric authentication service, now leading it.
Progression at zally
Software Engineer
Founding member of the development team.
Senior Software Engineer
Engineering Team Lead
- present
1 year 6 months in the role
- Full-stack across AWS solutions architecture, Node.js and React Native, from Cognito and Lambda through to Kinesis stream processing.
- Ran the design and facilitation of a sixty-member beta experiment.
- Brought Docker, Terraform and OpenAPI 3.0 into the team as the platform grew past what hand-managed infrastructure could hold.
- AWS
- Cognito
- Lambda
- Kinesis
- DynamoDB
- React
- React Native
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Terraform
- Docker
- Swift
- OpenAPI
Previous employment
- Website management, Discover Year. May 2021 - Jun 2023
- Website management, MentorU. Mar 2020 - Jun 2023
- Regional Mentor, University of Ottawa. May 2019 - Apr 2020
Core competencies
#Languages
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Java
- Go
- Swift
- C++
AWS
- AWS
- Cognito
- Lambda
- Kinesis
- DynamoDB
- S3
- SageMaker
Frameworks
- React
- React Native
- Node.js
- TensorFlow
- OpenCV
- Spring Boot
- Vite
Infrastructure
- Terraform
- Docker
- Git
- Linux
- OpenAPI
Data
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Firebase
Practice
- Computer vision
- Solutions architecture
- Agile delivery
- Experiment design
Also worked with
#Some freebies and packages I've had the chance to learn in passing.
- Tcl
- OCaml
- Prolog
- Racket
- API Gateway
- ECR
- SNS
- Jira
- Confluence
- Express
- Robot Framework
- NumPy
- pandas
- MediaPipe
- PyGame
- Thymeleaf
- Embedded systems
Education
#BSc, Major in Computer Science, Major in Psychology
University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Aug 2018 - Dec 2022
- Graduated Magna Cum Laude, equivalent to first-class honours
- Dean's Honours List, 2018 to 2022
- Eligibility
Right to work in the UK through British nationality
Active Canadian Reliability security clearance