Ever since I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be involved in programming. I spent countless hours working on my own projects, learning more and more and becoming more and more fascinated.
As I started getting involved in freenode, Mozilla, and other open source projects, it became a way to be part of a community - I could network, make friends, and meet people that would be with me for the rest of my life.
It then became clear to me - I didn't just want to follow my passion of programming. I wanted to teach others what I knew. And I wanted to keep supporting Open Source projects and helping others.
For this reason, I studied Web Technologies at the University of Huddersfield - so that I can learn even more about what I'm passionate for, and I did an internship for Shadowcat Systems - a small company in Lancaster that holds open source and community projects very dearly.
Do you want to learn more about me? Check out my projects or my blog .
Latest blog posts
How to be proactive as a Software Engineer
This article was initially published by me on dev.to Introduction As technical leaders, it is our job to solve problems proactively, without someone telling us what to do. This can be challenging as it requires to get out of the “problem solving” mindset, which comes naturally to us, and take continue reading...
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How to get the best job offer for senior+ software engineer roles
Originally published on dev.to Navigating “senior+” job interviews I recently did a round of job interviews. I’m on the top end of the Senior Software Engineer band, and I was looking for other “top of senior” or Staff Software Engineer roles. At the end of the interview process I had two continue reading...
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How I solved github’s actions capture the flag challenge
Introduction First of all, I’m aware it’s April 1st, I was thinking of some joke post but then I remembered that I have an actual serious post I’d like to write, so this is not any kind of joke. The challenge & repo A while back, Github posted a capture continue reading...
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