After applying for and subsequently attaining a higher position at jobs.ac.uk, I now continue my work for them with the additional responsibilities of training/mentoring junior staff members, maintaining the tools used on our staging/production servers and carrying out deployments. I've also played a pivotal role in delivering some of our larger projects, namely rebuilding the majority of the site to be responsive for our mobile users and upgrading the legacy code to work with later versions of PHP. Recently I'm stepping further into the dev ops side and have been working in AWS to design and build the infrastructure for some of our newer projects.

Initially joining for 2 weeks work experience, I swiftly became a valued member of the small development team at jobs.ac.uk, a world leading academic jobs board, and was eventually brought on in a permanent role. During my time there I have been responsible for maintaining and improving the legacy zend framework 1 code base as well as developing new modular projects that can integrate with it, most notably heading up the major redesign of our legacy systems for inputting advert data.

Selected for an 8 week work experience program which quickly led to a full internship at Whisk, a local startup developing a social online recipe web service with matching IOS and android applications. Training with Whisk’s development team, I developed a Chrome browser plugin to help the data team improve efficiency. During this time I assisted with data entry and in my spare time, I helped the development team with front-end web development for their admin site using AngularJS and CoffeeScript.