cairnswm / 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

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