- ๐ Studied Software Engineering at Kingston University from September 2014
- ๐ Worked as an Academic Mentor and later, as a Teaching Assistant at Kingston University
- ๐ Graduated with a First Class Hons and was selected to give the Vote of Thanks at our graduation ceremony
- ๐ป Kick-started my career at GenSight (2017 - 2019), mainly working on spreadsheet development and legacy web applications
- ๐ป I joined the marketing team at leading charity, Marie Curie - developing skills that were more relevant to modern development
- ๐ป Shortlisted in the Future Stars of Tech - Developer Category (2019)
- ๐ป Continued to mentor friends who were aspiting Software Engineers, as well as providing feedback on their CVs
- ๐ป In 2020, I decided to leave Marie Curie after being offered three jobs; accepted offer was pulled due to the pandemic
- ๐ป I had a virtual farewell, and started interviewing virtually. Within a month, I was offered four more jobs
- ๐ป I joined the marketing team at global cyersecurity company, Mimecast (NASDAQ); I was onboarded during the lockdown!
- ๐ป Despite the tech stack being identical to that of Marie Curie's, I played a key role, taking on more complex projects
- ๐ป Involved in suggesting ways to improve how we delivered as a team, writing job specs, CV reviewing & interviewing
- ๐ป My work was recognised by the senior management within the Global Marketing department (Q2 Quarterly Rockstar)
- ๐ป In July 2021, I secured a new role and met my colleagues from Mimecast in-person, at a park, for the first time at my leaving-do!
- ๐ป I joined Investment Bank, Jefferies (NYSE:JEF) as a Full-Stack Developer in the treasury team (my first-ever full-stack role!)
- ๐ป As well as learning new technologies, I am starting to take on other responsibilities such as mentoring and presenting
- ๐ป Contributions to various charities, mainly Cancer Research UK and British Heart Foundation
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View Code? Open in Web Editor NEWDeveloped various Nuget Packages for technologies I have worked with throughout my career - including EpiServer CMS for .NET Framework as well as Reusable Code for .NET Core.