As a cognitive neuroscientist, when I started coding, something clicked. The combination of creativity, logic and seeming like a fingerprint of our own thought processes, made me fall in love with coding.
I've always loved learning and stretching myself academically. I currently have a paper on decision making in paranoia under review for publication. Tech seems like the perfect place to permanently learn and code seems like the perfect medium see fast paced growth and the product of your work.
- Moovli: Final project at Makers, where you can click on any country and get the best movies from that country.
- DreamCatcher: Individual side project - a full stack MERN app where you can share and interpret your dreams with friends.
- Acebook: a social media webpage that allows users to post messages onto each others walls. Users can edit and delete their posts and interact by viewing other users home pages.
- Boris Bike Challenge: A program that emulates the docking stations, bikes and infrastructure of the boris bike system in order to practice the fundamentals of object oriented programming in javascript.
In order to complete a degree in neuroscience and a masters in social cognition I had to work incredibly hard for long periods of time. I regularly worked 14 hours a day seven days week whilst managing to look after myself. I would regularly be confronted with a piece of work or paper that I didn't understand. Through hard work and perseverance I would break down the challenging paper into key concepts which I would research independently to then piece the puzzle together.
Being genuiniely open and curious led me into science, where I could delve into the inner workings of the mind and brain. For me, curiousity entails a flexibility, openness and bravery to consider different perspectives and hypotheses. During my previous role as an operational scientist and during Makers, curiosity has allowed me to explore a range of topics that I wouldn't have expected to be initially interested in. For example, during my time working for Cambridge Cognition, in addition to researching the validity of cognitive tests, I started reseaching the role of stress on cognitive performance as a side project which resulted in this blog post: https://www.cambridgecognition.com/blog/entry/can-stress-at-work-affect-cognitive-performance
- OOP, TDD, MVC, DDD
- Agile/XP
- Ruby, Rails, JavaScript
- RSpec, Jasmine
- MSc: Social Cognition: Reseach and Applications
- Merit
- Dissertation on social cognition, paranoia and punitive behaviour.
- BSc: Neuroscience
- 2.1
- Dissertation on cognitive remediation therapy in Bipolar Disorder.
Cambridge Cognition (February 2019 to August 2019)
Operational Scientist
- Researched validitiy of computerised congitive testing
- Conducted user testing for newly developed cognitive tests.
Cambridge Cogntion (September 2018 to February 2019)
Product Specialist
- Provided technical support for cogntiive testing software
- Trained academics on using cognitive testing software.
University of Cambridge, Institute of Public Health (January 2017 to March 2017).
Research Assistant
- Reviewed qualitative methods for a research project.
- Adminstrative work to assist the development of the Institute for Research Improvement.
Playing and listening to music! I play trumpet, guitar and bass. I love reading, mostly novlels but also some non-fiction.