I am a Junior but well-practised Software Engineer currently employed at Thales UK. I have a great passion for learning, especially in topics oriented around Software Development, Networks and Backend Engineering. I am currently in the process of learning Rust-Lang and hope to use it in my upcoming projects
As a software engineering apprentice at Thales UK, I find myself partaking in agile / scrum development methodologies in a strong team of 6 other engineers. The team iterates on a pre-existing system designed for the MOD, written in C++ using internal frameworks to assist.
During my 6 months at Sainsbury's, I worked hard to ensure shelves were stocked whilst also assisting with the preparation and execution of promotional strategies through the Spring and Summer seasons.
This job involved ensuring customer satisfaction was very high! Every car had to be cleaned meticulously to ensure the highest standard was achieved. We often spent a lot of our time in commercial workspace environments and so remaining professional was key to the service we provided. I enjoyed working here a lot because of both the independent and teamworking aspects. On many occasions we would find ourselves working on a car in a group so communication was key to ensure that no part was missed nor any unnecessary work was undertaken!
Working at Ashford Self Storage was my first taste of working in the real world. I spent a lot of time interacting with the customers throughout the day whilst also maintaining the cleanliness and presentability of the site. I was in charge of making sure the loading bay was clear and safe to use in addition to landscaping out the front and sides of the warehouse building!
This project is a templated website designed for a client that needed a platform to advertise his clearance services. The website is made using Bootstrap and JQuery along with PHP for some of the backend features. I am hosting the site along with its E-Mail accounts on my own web and mail servers which guarantees a near 100% uptime!
This project is a web application designed to make an easy way for employees to log the hours that they are working. All they have to do is clock in at the start of the day and clock back out once they have finished. The app is being developed using ASP.Net 5 with MongoDB acting as a permanent data store for each user's data.
This project is probably one of the largest so far! It is designed for flight sim users to be able to brief and track their flights as well as giving them the ability to fetch relevant routes and charts with just the click of a button. The project is a part of my A-Level course and thus is heavily documented at all stages of the application development life cycle. It has taught me a lot about the agile development ideology, something that will be really useful to apply to some of my next projects!
In my spare time, I will often find myself working on some of my smaller projects, writing small scalable apps in Rust. Check out my remote git server to see what I am working on now.
I am also an avid member of the VATSIM flight simulation community and spend my evenings interacting with the many members that it holds. I operate as a virtual air traffic controller and will also find myself flying on the network in some of the many events they host each week.
From 2015 to 2020 I was in the 'Royal Air Force Air Cadets' which taught me a lot of leadership, communication and problem solving skills. Whilst there, I partook in the Bronze Duke Of Edinburgh award and joined the squadron band, both of which were tough but rewarding experiences. Throughout the year we would attend many parades for which our drill and discipline standard had to be impeccable.