I really enjoy making things and solving problems, mostly on computers ⌨️ (but not always 📐🛠️🪚).

From January to March 2022, I completed the Founders and Coders part-time skills bootcamp, and from May to July I completed their full-time training course.

From August 2022 to December 2023 I worked at Lyfta -- first as an apprentice software developer, and then as a junior developer.

Away from screens, I like walking 🏙️🌳, hiking ⛰️🌄, dancing (in smallish, loud rooms) 🎛️🔊, cooking 🍅🥦, and critter-spotting. 🐶🐱🐦🦊🐀

I care about how technology can be used to have a positive social impact ⚖️, and hope I can continue to work on projects that contribute to this.

I'm regularly learning new things, which is one reason I like working with software.

Some online courses I've recently completed include:

• 🐍 Python for Programmers (100%)

• ✔️ Intro to Machine Learning
• ✔️ Pandas
• ✔️ Intermediate Machine Learning
• ✔️ Intro to Deep Learning

In the past 18 months I was focusing on:

• ☕ JavaScript, Node & SPAs
• ⚛️ React, Redux & various associated packages
• 💅🏾 CSS-in-JS approaches like styled-components
• 💎 Ruby on Rails, Active Record & various associated gems
• git & GitHub
• 📁 VS Code
• 🌐 Three.js
• ✏️ Figma

Prior to 2022 I already had a decent grounding in HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, Linux & (Unix-like) shells/CLI, Perl, and more. It's been particularly enjoyable updating my CSS knowledge, which seems to have really improved since 2012! ✨

Some online courses I've worked through in the past include:

• TypeScript:

  • Basics

• JavaScript:

  • Arrays
  • Regular Expressions
  • Modern JavaScript
  • Concurrency

• SQL