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I am an energetic and ambitious full stack junior developer, looking for a role in an established consultancy or tech company where I can learn best practice from experts. I am keen to work on a variety of projects – building both backend and frontend given my passions for maths and design.
Before graduating from Makers Academy in May 2019, I enjoyed diverse roles for eight years as a Government Economist, ranging from leading negotiations with the Treasury to win funding, to building complex analytical models to estimate costs and benefits of high-profile environmental policies, to leading the impact assessment for smart appliance regulations. While I appreciated the variety, I was happiest at work using Excel and statistical software to solve logic-based problems, which led me to explore coding.
See Github for full list.
| Project | Description | Technologies | Contributors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bank and Quiz | Practice tech tests: examples of clean code using TDD, OOP. | Ruby, RSpec | Independent project |
| News App | Simple web app to summarise the headlines. Wrote my own testing framework. | Javascript, Ruby, HTML, CSS | Independent project |
| Acebook | This is a simple clone of Facebook. | Rails, RSpec Materialize, HTML, CSS | Group of 4 at Makers |
| Airport in Ruby, Python, Javascript, and Clojure | Here I test drove a simple program in four languages. | Ruby & RSpec, Python & Pytest, Javascript & Jasmine, Clojure & Clojure.test | Independent project |
I have strong quantitative skills. I see the world in a very logical way which means I can break problems down into simple solutions that work for the user and for my computer.
- At Manchester Uni, I ranked fifth in my cohort with a First Class BSc in Quantitative Economics; and
- At UCL, I received 2 marks off distinction for my MSc thesis, using Stata to analyse the impact of a health policy using large healthcare datasets.
I love working with people, in pairs and in teams. I enjoy bringing my enthusiasm about a project to a whole team as well as working out a problem together and learning from other perspectives.
I also pride myself on both my written and oral communication skills – working as a Government Economist for eight years has honed my ability to deliver clear, concise and persuasive communication to a range of audiences.
Highly selective 4 month intensive coding bootcamp.
Ruby | Rails | JavaScript | Python | Sinatra | HTML | CSS | Materialize | PostgreSQL | RSpec | Jasmine | Pytest | Capybara
- Makers does not assign a grade or mark to its students, but I received the following feedback for my final assessment: "This was a really excellent review. There wasn't one moment where I felt you were off-process: as a result, you were focussed, clear, and intentional. You identified the core problem rapidly, modelled it well, and designed and built a powerful but self-contained algorithm to solve the problem. Your debugging approaches seemed on point and your code was well-factored and thoughtful. It's hard to point out areas to improve within the context of Makers, but I have a hunch you might be interested in some aspects of functional programming..."
- Final project: Ulima – Connect 4. A machine learning project where we aimed to teach the computer to play Connect 4. Python | Behave | OpenAI Gym | Tensorflow | Keras | PyGame
- All coding adhered to these principles: Test Driven Development (TDD), Object Oriented Principles (OOP), Model View Controller (MVC), Domain Driven Design (DDD), Agile & eXtreme Programming values
Dissertation: 'An econometric assessment: How did a 2005 health policy affect competition and provision of NHS healthcare?' Analysis in Stata using vast, incomplete datasets. (Grade: 2 marks off distinction).
Grade: First Class (ranked fifth in cohort of 100+ students)
A Levels: Economics (A), Mathematics (A), Chemistry (A)
- Head of Fiscal Analysis, Department for Food, Environment & Rural Affairs (Jan 2018 – Jan 2019)
- Smart Energy Analyst, Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (Oct 2015 – Jan 2018)
- Power Sector, Committee on Climate Change (Jun 2011 – Oct 2015)
- Health Sector Productivity, Office for National Statistics (Nov 2010 – Jun 2011)
In these roles, I led many high profile economic analyses to determine the effectiveness of proposed environmental policies. For example, preparing for future grid impacts of electric vehicles, regulating cybersecurity & interoperability of smart appliances, and assessing cost impacts to society of innovative renewable technologies.
- Built analytical models to ascertain both monetary and non-monetary costs and benefits of proposed environmental policies. Both independently and delivering through my team.
- Managed projects, proactively bringing in Agile project management techniques into a traditional project management environment.
- Honed oral and written communication skills through regularly presenting (to 100+ people), leading negotiation with the Treasury to agree funding, and briefing Ministers ensuring clear, concise and persuasive language.
- Was rewarded with a year career break from Defra to train at Makers Academy (although I plan to find a job as a developer rather than returning).
- Economic Adviser, Australian Conservation Foundation (Jun – Jul 2014)
- Research Fellow, The Climate Institute (Nov 2013 – Jul 2014)
Led a study to understand the of role carbon-removal technologies in achieving climate goals. Analysed data, drafted reports, presented complex material at national conferences. Created blogs, videos, infographics, and web material.
Outside work, I love to create things. Since I can remember, I’ve been fascinated by taking things apart and putting them back together again, and I love to teach myself new skills. Even when a junior economist, I built a complex model in my own time to escape time-consuming manual data processing, which changed the way the Government analyses climate targets.
I’m a perfectionist about style and formatting which means I write code quickly and systematically, picking up errors. I also spend time on simple art and design and enjoy the crossover with programming and the functional design space.
My hobbies include:
- Holistic health – mediation, yoga, triathlons
- Art and design – I paint and design and make clothes
- Languages – I speak conversational Spanish and am learning Portuguese
- Coding meetups – I regularly attend Codebar