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Name: William Cairns

Type: User

Bio: Career developer. Been exposed to many different languages. Currently focusing on JS on AWS. AWS & MCSD certified. Long Distance Cyclist in my free tim

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Blog: http://william.cairns.co.za

Hi

I'm CairnsWM (William Cairns), I live in South Africa. I will be moving to a Remote position based in the USA. I have both American and South African citizenship.

I am currently working as a Staff Engineer for Imagine Learning.

I am

A Passionate Software Developer
A Long Distance Cyclist
A Fantasy fan - D&D and Fantasy Fiction

I consider my key skills to be

Javascript/React
Software Engineering
Technical Team Leadership
Team Mentorship
Modern Software Development processes
Application Architecture Best Practises

I am Certified as

Microsoft Certified Developer (C#, Javascript, Azure)
AWS Cloud Practitioner (Expired)
AWS Certified Developer Associate (Expired)

I have studied

B.Comm Information Systems (Pretoria)
MSc Computer Science with Software Engineering (Glyndwr) (https://online.glyndwr.ac.uk/msc-computer-science-with-software-engineering/)

I currently use

Javascript
React
PHP
mySQL

I used to use

.Net, C#
SQL Server
Delphi
Oracle
C++
AWS
and lots more

I have done some writing

How non developers can keep developers engaged and productive https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-non-developers-can-keep-developers-engaged-william-cairns-z27ie
When to Use Components vs. Writing Code https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-use-components-vs-writing-code-william-cairns
DevOps Engineers don't do DevOps: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/devops-engineers-do-william-cairns/
Really Simple Svelte Routing: https://dev.to/cairnswm/really-simple-svelte-routing-5fko
Mainframe to Cloud, a short history https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mainto-cloud-short-history-william-cairns
Custom Bootstrap using CSS https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/custom-bootstrap-using-sass-william-cairns
I don't expect you to keep up https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-dont-expect-you-keep-up-william-cairns
Read.me (or be ignored) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/readmemd-ignored-william-cairns
Personal Projects (Passion, Bugs and DevOps) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/personal-projects-passion-bugs-devops-william-cairns
Continuous Learning https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/continuous-learning-william-cairns
And a few more

I have (a lot of) experience

See my Linkedin profile (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cairnswm) for details

I use Github

William Cairns's Projects

auth

PHP authentication library using JWT tokens. Supports Authorizations through roles and permissions.

bankingchatbotabc

An AI and NN based chatbot using RASA NLU

bugreporter

Javascript library to allow users to identify and report bugs in a web page by using a context menu.

chatapp-signalr

Chat Application using C# and SignalR (Javascript client)

chatbot-banking-service

Banking chatbot based on Rasa open source machine learning tools for developers to create contextual AI assistants and chatbots that go beyond answering simple questions

cleveralarm

Simple Alarm count down that triggers when time is complete. Can be restarted or stopped at any time

clevercalendar

Simple calendar component for Zepto and/or jQuery

cleverform

jQuery Form plugin that creates a form based on JSON definition

cleverstate

Javascript store that triggers a set of subscriber functions whenever a value in the store is chnaged

create_track

Class to create a KML or GPX file from data

customer-engagement-bot

DEPRECATED: this repo is no longer actively maintained

delayedgratification

Example code for managing very slow APIs. Javascript, WebWorker, PHP, Ajax

Discord bot for D&D. Bot will be able manage campaigns (very high level) characters and roll dice. The idea is to allow a game to be run in discord while the main data for the campaign to be stored in a database.