About Me
I'm originally from Ireland, but after spending 7 years living in the south of Spain I've recently moved to Austria. I speak English and Spanish fluently, speak intermediate level French, and am currently learning German. I love problem solving, challenging myself and learning new things. When I'm not coding, I'm usually out running or cycling, or exploring new places with my wife.
Before I started coding, I spent 7 years as a teacher which has helped me to break down difficult concepts and explain technical concepts in an easy to understand manner. I have always enjoyed learning languages and I speak several to varying degrees of fluency. The experience gained learning languages has helped me pick up programming languages quickly.
Education
Launch School
Software Engineering Program •October 2021
A program that focuses on mastering the fundamentals of software engineering.
Experience
S1SEVEN
Full Stack Software Engineer• March 2022 - Present
- - Worked on an open-source project allowing easy file management between local filesystem and s3
- - Added NX to our monorepo, dramatically reducing the build/test time by using caching to check what had changed and only build/test affected apps
- - Improved our CI workflow with Github Actions
- - Added e2e testing using newman/postman for our API
- - Worked on open-source tooling that generates PDFs and HTML from a JSON schema
- - Wrote articles explaining how to interact with API using Node-Red
- - Used Vue and Handlebars to create templates and documentation
- - Write extensive documentation for our core product and tooling
Alexandria
Full Stack Software Engineer• November 2021 - Present
- - Co-designed and created the app's relational database using PostgreSQL.
- - Co-designed and implemented the backend and frontend using Node, TypeScript and React.
- - Set-up and implemented automatic PR testing using GitHub actions and Docker.
- - Worked with a remote team of Software Engineers to make key design decisions.
- - Used user stories to design and develop backend APIs.
- - Co-authored the case study outlining the technical decisions we made and why we made them.
SPOT lead at Launch School
SPOT lead at Launch School• September 2021 - November 2021
- - Lead sessions to help other students improve their understanding of JavaScript concepts such as OOP, prototypal inheritance, hoisting, etc.
- - Wrote articles to help break down and simplify technical subjects.
- - Worked remotely with other leads to organize events.
- - Contributed to the SPOT wiki to ensure information was easy to find.
- - Made sure that new leads were correctly onboarded and that they had access to whatever they needed.
Skills
Here is my level of comfort with each skill and technology below. I am very comforable with reading and learning from documention, so I can get up to scratch quickly.
