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At Reapit I'm responsible for building and maintaining internal and external developer tools within the business
I have successfully built a working dynamic CI/CD pipeline tool to deploy PWA apps to AWS and I'm currently planning a version 2 capable of deploying and maintaining backend application solutions.
As a freelancer I had various clients that I worked with to build and maintain their unique solutions.
An interesting project I had was for Essex university where I built a graphical 'speed dial' to monitor gRPC calls to a server. I also attempted at developing my own applications for several business ideas using firebase and flutter to produce multi platform apps.
At HomeserveNow I was tasked with improving the architecture of a greenfield project.
Organised and implemented more structured methodologies such as REST, IaC, SRP, open-closed and others. I've also maintained and improved our mobile app, admin dashboard and customer facing web site. Planned, designed, built and published homeserve's first public library serverless-aws-handler. At HomeserveNow we used AWS, TypeScript, lambdas, cognito, react, react-native, SQS, SES, pusher, expo and others.
At Velocity Black, I was responsible for developing a reliable and scalable concierge messaging platform.
I persisted within a team of 3 and primarily build a variety of applications for Velocity's systems using mainly TypeScript with NestJS. During my time at VB I used kubernetes, TypeScript, Google Cloud Platform, NestJS, React and others.
At Wi-Q I develop micro services using TypeScript, PHP with symfony and Nodejs to deliver emails, url shortening, link click tracking, machine learning Facebook messenger bot to answer questions with defined answers. I also architected their promotion handling system and their batch action/job system for handling several tasks simultaneously.
At Wi-Q I used PHP, symfony, kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, react, nodejs, express, rabbitMQ (AMQP) and others.
My time at Ansta I delved into many new languages, experiences and server architecture.
I've worked on maintaining small CMS', built native apps and PWAs to building systems capable of thousands of concurrent uses.
I'm now in a position where I'm planning, scheduling and applying new projects and systems within my deadlines and communicating with my clients and colleagues. Whilst at Ansta I used PHP, Laravel, Lumen, a Custom PHP framework, A custom PWA framework, Debian, CentOS, React, bootstrap, React-Native, Expo and produced a dynamic web page for Stamford Bridge's stadium displays.
During my time at DotFive I gained an extremely considerable amount of experience in Laravel and package management
I was tasked with assisting in the build of a property sales system called LegalZoom for a company called Beaumount legal. I also developed a wine and whiskey review based site and API. Working on a custom built framework written in a custom language I learnt a great deal of how a language and framework should not be maintained. A 7 year project without a goal or use is an extremely costly blackhole! At DotFive I used various languages and frameworks, mainly PHP, Laravel and jQuery.
My main task at Merali Digital was to maintain and updating a system built in Zend 1.4 for managing and documenting opticians test results.
Patients requiring attention would be referred to hospital via fax.
During my extremely long journey to work I used the time to experiment with Codeigniter and other frameworks such as Symfony and Laravel.
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Dr Samantha Carter, a theoretical astrophysicist and USAF pilot that brought quantum physics to the sci-fi action program.
She would always produce an alternative solution to 'all guns blazing' that involved
A former Borg drone who joined the federation that struggled with assimilating with the illogical culture of humanoid species.
A strong, scientifically motivated woman who had a robotic like charisma.
Although Ripley was not a predominantly scientist or into tech I can't deny that Ripley had an influence on me.
Her fight for survival in the sci-fi/horror Aliens inspired me to become a fighter no matter the situation.
A paleobotanist turned velociraptor bait, Ellie inspired me to become a scientist and a fighter no matter the situation.
As much as I hate to admit it, Lisa Simpson had a big impact on me as a child. She played the saxophone, I played guitar, she was a massive science nerd, I was a massive science nerd.
There weren't many strong female role models from the 90s that I could find so I've had to include Dexter!
Dexter was a lonely kid that spent most of his time in his lab, planning, building and scheming.
Velma always used her brains over brawn which was something I always admired about her.
I always admired the way she would solve the case by using logic and deduction rather than brute force.
Ah yes, triangle boobed Lara Croft. You didn't think you'd see her here did you? I had the demo for Tomb Raider back in 1997.
I couldn't play the game properly but you could say Tomb Raider got me into computer games from a young age? I don't know, maybe I'm clutching at straws?
Another Star Trek character that was robotic and struggled with human interaction. There's a theme here?
There's some hidden gems on site, when you find them, you'll get an achievement. I stopped counting at 11. Come on! Chop, chop! There's 11 achievements to find!