About Me

I have been programming since 2016, after becoming frustrated with having to spend an entire day each week manually checking whether hundreds of social media accounts had been tweeting about the award we were promoting for a client. I taught myself Python in order to build a tool that automated building this weekly social media report and the weekend spent writing the script reduced a day's work to a click of a button. I have been hooked on creating tools that make life easier ever since.

Soon after I began to master Javascript, which is the language Google uses on the back-end for scripting Google Sheets and Google Docs. After building a few scripts to automate small tasks at work, I started to gain a reputation for being the person in the office to go to if you had a labour-intensive task you wanted to automate. By the time I left the FT in 2020, it had become my full-time job, and I had built a number of key internal tools including one that automated the production, tracking, and updating of budgets for over 200 events.

In January 2021, I took the Web Development bootcamp at Le Wagon, where I learnt how to build a web applicaton with Ruby on Rails, and discovered more about the product development process. Since the bootcamp I have been focused on creating web applications using Javascript-focused frameworks, including Node and React.