I've spent the past 16-weeks learning to code at Makers Academy, a highly selective and intensive dev bootcamp in London. Before this I managed a charitable trust with a £2M annual turnover for the Centre for Effective Altruism, a Y Combinator backed non-profit who apply science and evidence to improve the world. Noticing the value of technical skills in my role there, I decided to take on a new challenge and learn to code. I'm now looking for my first role as a full stack developer in an environment where I will continually be challenged and rapidly improve my skills in this area.
Skills | Projects | Education | Experience | Hobbies
I have an inquisitive mindset and am proactive about learning new things. I self-taught Maths AS in school, achieving an A. 16 weeks at Makers Academy has been an exciting experience involving building a completely new set of skills. I actively sought out challenges such as learning Node.js to build an Airbnb clone in a week, and making an AR mobile game using Unity and C# as my final project.
I'm capable of assuming responsibility and working independently on novel problems. Within the first two months at my previous organisation I was entrusted with managing a charitable trust. For two and a half years I was responsible for all aspects of running it, from compliance to financial oversight to donor and beneficiary communications. In this time the Trust disbursed over £4M to effective charities.
As Director of Community I was in charge of a group of 2000 members of the charity. I acted as point of contact for queries about membership or the charity more generally, and organised several events to celebrate community milestones. I held over 400 Skype conversations to welcome and onboard new members during the course of two and a half years.
I enjoy working in a group toward a shared goal. I joined a conference team as the Speaker Liaison for Effective Altruism Global San Francisco 2016, a conference attended by 1000 guests and 100 speakers. I worked in an intensive environment to a strict deadline managing a group of 12 volunteers and regularly checked in with the team to ensure a successful event. I've enjoyed taking part in four group projects at Makers where we employed agile practices to iterate towards our goals.
| Project | Description | Technologies | Testing | Online version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 4: Chitter | Independent weekend project to build a lightweight Twitter clone | Ruby, Sinatra, Postgres, DataMapper, HTML5(ERB), CSS | RSpec, Capybara | https://lets-chitter.herokuapp.com |
| Week 6: Allstaas-bnb | Week-long group project to create a simple version of Airbnb | Node, Express, Postgres, Sequelize, Bootstrap CSS | Zombie, Mocha, Chai | N/A |
| Weeks 10-12: Unorthoducks | Two-week group project to make a mobile AR Zombie duck defence game | C#, Unity, Vuforia | Unity Test Runner with NUnit | N/A |
You can find a full list of projects on my github profile.
- Pair programming with independent weekend project work
- Awareness of agile practices and XP values
- Software development best practices including TDD, delegation, encapsulation, DDD
- Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Node.js, Unity, C#
- Rspec, Capybara, Jasmine, Zombie, Mocha, Chai
- BA (Hons) Archaeology and Anthropology, specialising in Social Anthropology
- Awarded a first for my dissertation, Medical Anthropology specialisation
- A Levels – 3A*s: Biology, History, Music
- AS Levels – 6As: including Maths and Chemistry
- Held top academic and music scholarships
Centre for Effective Altruism (April 2015 to May 2017)
Director of Community
Giving What We Can Trust (April 2015 to May 2017)
Manager
- Music - I love going to concerts and festivals and performing when I can
- Photography - I recently got a camera and am enjoying taking photos
- Circus - I've been learning circus skills since University, in particular aerial dance