I'm a BSc (Hons) Computing Technologies student at Ulster University in Belfast, entering second year in September 2026. My second-year employability module will prepare me to apply for a third-year placement in 2027/28.
I enjoy the awkward part of a project: working out the real constraint, keeping the code understandable and proving that the finished thing behaves properly. That has taken me from a production radio site to a Godot campaign, a French-learning platform and a study system for my own degree.
This GitHub account is newer than my programming experience. I opened it in June 2026 after roughly four years of learning through college, university and projects built in my own time. I am not presenting one month of GitHub activity as one month of learning.
| Project | What I built | Try it | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| The World Forgot Us | A four-area Godot road-story campaign with persistent state, combat, upgrades, environmental puzzles and three endings. Its CI imports the project, runs a complete campaign smoke test and exports the browser build. | Play | Repo |
| French for Life | A full-stack French-learning app built around a strict teach-before-test rule. The public route works without an account; curriculum checks, deterministic scoring and browser tests guard what counts as learning evidence. | Demo | Public snapshot |
| Groundwork | A private local-first study app that chooses the next useful computing task from recorded evidence. It includes guided lessons, real in-browser SQLite exercises, progress migrations and a derived guidebook. | Case study | Private: contains my learning data and working plans |
| Coast Internet Radio | A stakeholder-led redevelopment for a small Newry station. I worked with the station owner to modernise the listener experience, then built stream relays, live metadata, an owner-run admin area, play history and first-party analytics. | Site | Repo |
| Talk With Jamie | A disclosed AI chat experiment where guest and owner retrieval are separated in code, not left to a prompt. It also has authentication, persistent conversations, rate limits and private admin tools. | Site | Repo |
| Local Web Fix | A small service site for practical business-web fixes. It is mainly an exercise in keeping the price, scope and limitations as clear as the implementation. | Site | Repo |
TypeScript, React and Next.js; HTML, CSS and JavaScript; Node and serverless functions; Godot and GDScript; SQL, Supabase and SQLite; Python where it is the sensible tool. I use GitHub Actions, Playwright and focused unit tests to keep the important paths repeatable.
I try to keep names plain, functions small and boundaries obvious. I would rather remove code than hide a simple idea behind another abstraction. When a project depends on privacy, persistence or learning evidence, I put that rule in code and test it instead of relying on a comment.
The READMEs also say what is unfinished. A public demo is not a production launch, browser speech is not a pronunciation score, and a playable game is not the same thing as a fully balanced one.
I use AI tools during development for ideas, debugging and review. I do not treat generated output as proof that something works. I read and simplify the changes, run the relevant checks and keep responsibility for what I merge. When AI materially helped with an advanced area, such as authentication, privacy boundaries, the Godot runtime builder or asset generation, the project README and credits say what it was used for and how I checked it.
- BSc (Hons) Computing Technologies, Ulster University, 2025 to 2029 expected
- Level 3 Extended Diploma in Technology, Southern Regional College, D*DD
- IT Specialist in HTML & CSS, Certiport
I am preparing for a third-year placement in 2027/28, ideally in software, web development or another practical technical role where I can contribute to a team and keep learning.