Projects | Experience | Skills | Education | Hobbies
I am an industrious and adaptable full stack developer, seeking a position where I can cultivate my love of software engineering, whilst creating value by bringing ease and joy into the lives of clients and end users.
| Name | Description | Tech/tools | Source Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chitter Social Media App | Mobile-friendly front end twitter clone | React, Jest, React Testing Library, MSW | Chitter |
| Tennis Club API | Back end Express API for sports club management | Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL, Jest, SuperTest | Tennis Club |
| Local L.A.B | Full stack web app for Lending And Borrowing items for free in one's local community | MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js | Local Lab |
| Bank Transactions App | Node REPL app for simulating basic bank account transactions | Node.js, Mocha, Chai, Sinon | Bank Account |
Robert Walters Tokyo (2019 - 2021)
Legal Recruitment Consultant
- 360 recruitment consultant supporting clients acquire top legal talent in Tokyo
- Engaged in business development, contract negotiation, relationship management and career consultation
- Career Highlight: built a relationship with a US BigLaw firm, closed a hard-to-fill requirement, made to billers list and personal best quarter
AGOS Japan (2016 - 2019)
TOEFL iBT Instructor
- Delivering TOEFL strategy courses to MBA candidates, LLM candidates and undergraduates
- Career Highlight: contributed to the develpment of a new four skills general English course which was highly rated by students
ECC (2014 - 2015)
Business English Trainer
- Running business English skills workshops on meetings, negotiations, presentations etc.
Ernst & Young London LLP (2012 - 2014)
IT Risk and Assurance Analyst
- Conducting walkthroughs meetings and testing of IT controls for clients in FS industry
- Producing recommendations for robust improvement of IT controls and risk mitigation
- Career Highlight: Chosen to join a performance improvement project for a major UK retail bank
My ability to think analytically was the key to my success during my degree in Molecular Biology. I have found many striking parallels between designing scientific experiments, interpreting the results, and then iteratively improving that design, and the process of testing software, debugging it, and improving a program incrementally.
My time as an IT risk analyst at EY required deep focus and catching small details which could compromise the security of a system. This work also gave me high level exposure to the concepts of data security and IT controls. Keeping these concepts in mind motivates me to design software which meets user needs without compromising personal data or exposing the business to unnecessary risk.
While working as a Recruitment Consultant at Robert Walters, delivering results under intense pressure was the norm. Learning to thrive under this pressure whilst retaining my personal values and professional standards was my greatest asset. Far from hard-selling and slick-talking, I found that forming relationships built on trust and integrity led to long-term compounding returns. I learned to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset and took responsibility for expanding my business and making my own opportunities. This experience taught me that true growth happens once you step outside of the comfort zone.
The prospect of continuous learning is what first attracted me to programming. Eager to extend my learning beyond the ruby/rails-focused technologies of my bootcamp, I have spent my evenings teaching myself additional technologies including JS/Node, React, MongoDB and Python. I particularly enjoy creating single page React apps and am looking forward to tackling NEXT.js and GraphQL as an extension of this. My self-study program has given me confidence that I can quickly pick-up the tech stack in any given team.
- English (Native)
- Japanese (Conversational)
- French (basic)
Makers Academy (2021 - 2022)
16-week Software Engineering Bootcamp
- Building full stack, RESTful, applications with an emphasis on high code quality
- Prioritising TDD, SRP and modular code design
- Utilising OOP, MVC and Agile for efficient development processes
- Collaborating with others through pair programming and team engineering projects
- Worked with several technologies including React, JavaScript, Node, MongoDB, Ruby, Django, Python, Express, PostgreSQL, Rails, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Semantic UI, Jest, React Testing Library, MSW, Cypress etc.
University College London (2009 - 2012)
BSc Hons Molecular Biology
- Final Project: Investigating Antimicrobial Resistance in Oral Bacteria
- Taekwondo
- Adventure Sports
- Crypto, NFTs