Welcome to my GitHub! 👋

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