I'm a Computer Science and Astrophysics Graduate from the University of Bristol currently working as a .NET Developer at Acturis Ltd. I moved to the UK in 2015 to pursue a degree in Astrophysics. I graduated in 2018 and continued on to do a Masters in Computer Science after getting interested in the field following a funded inter-disciplinary internship.
Outside of work I like to do a good mix of things. I'm a licensed skydiver and like to go skydiving whenever I get the chance. I also play badminton socially and am always open to new experiences. When I'm not doing those I'm often playing video games or watching TV Shows.
My biggest personal project, it's a "chat bot" written for the messaging app Discord. It's written in NodeJS and TypeScript with MongoDB for persistent storage and configuration. It has integrations with external services - Spotify, Reddit and NASA's APIs. The Spotify integration has the full OAuth Authorisation Code flow implemented. The bot lets you share your current song and lets others add the shared song to their "playing" queue with the click of a button.
A pet project that I did to learn a bit more about WebAssembly - specifically creating an implementation myself. The project is an interpreter of the CHIP-8 Programming Language.. The interpreter was initally created in Rust and then compiled to WebAssembly. I have created a UI to play with it on my website (you may need to use chrome for it to work correctly). The project was also an outlet for me to practice TDD, which I wanted to gain more experience with.
This is the Final Thesis Project of my Masters Degree in Computer Science - It's a proof of concept platform for Physics education using programming as a basis. My idea was to create a learning environment with Python that was accessible and easy to share. I used NodeJS, VueJS and Pyodide to create an embedded Python environment in the front-end. The idea was to supplement theoretical learning with share-able interactive code snippets.
The final project for the C Course of my Masters Degree - implementing a recursive parser for the Turtle graphics feature of the LOGO Programming Language. It includes support for the basic movement features of the language, as well as my custom implementation of user-defined functions. Almost all of the code for this was written from scratch, including a linked hashmap implementation for storing function definitions.
