Web Developer and Speaker
codebar Director & Trustee • Software Engineer • Speaker • Snowboarder • Alpinist

Portfolio

Best Beauty
National Burger Day
Runaway Helpline

Prototyping

A big part of my role as Creative Technologist at Shortlist Media was experimenting with new technologies and ideas. These included prototyping a potential React Native app for a live event. Also a project where we created a React site that generated articles from the top trending subreddits of the day.

Facebook Instant Articles / Apple News

Both of these platforms were released during my time at Shortlist Media. As a publisher they wanted to be at the forefront of digital publishing and it was my job to integrate them. These efforts were successful as 2 weeks after launching Facebook IA we saw a 120% growth in online traffic.

Open Source

Part of my role as codebar organiser is maintaining the repos. Everything we have built is Open Source, from the planner to the tutorials. We encourage students to contribute and to help with this we run "24 Pull Requests" every December. I have also created tutorials and guides to aid new developers, such as several Intro to Python tutorials and an everyday git command guide.

About

I am a Trustee of the charity codebar. codebar started out of recognition that there is a shortage of women, non-binary, LGBTQ+, and people belonging to underrepresented ethnic groups in tech. We are a resource for students who cannot afford formal training through coding bootcamps or university degrees, for financial reasons or otherwise. Over 10 years, we have built a global ‘codebar Community’ of 25,000+ people of all backgrounds can access free training and total tech support.

I have also given many talks on diversity and inclusion, building communities and how to effectively bring in junior developers to your team. I've also run several technical workshops at events. I would love to do more of this! If you're interested, please get in touch.

I also get excited about building great products and working with great companies. I work with small and medium-sized businesses, design teams and agencies, building fast and responsive websites.

Contact

If you're interested in collaborating with me, be it for dev work, as a speaker or to run a technical workshop. Please drop me an email [email protected].