An enthusiastic, flame haired, tech fanatic seeking my first job in the industry. I have spent the past 3 months at Makers Academy learning not only how to code, but how to think. I've learnt how the agile process works, and why testing is essential when producing quality code. I am ideally looking to work in an environment that is collaborative, test driven, and provides support for junior staff in order to accelerate learning. I am language agnostic and know I can learn anything very quickly to start contributing value.
I have a proven ability to solve complex problems as shown through my Codewars profile http://www.codewars.com/users/Adrian1707
You can view the methods and techniques I used to solve various problems in this repository https://github.com/Adrian1707/Codewars
You can get to know me better through my writing on my personal blog: http://ontheroadtocode.blogspot.co.uk/
Project Name | Description |
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[Grape] (https://github.com/Adrian1707/music_discover) | A social music discovery site called Grape that uses Neo4j graph database to connect users with similar music tastes |
Bulls&Cows | An addictive maths game built in Ruby and deployed with Rails |
Chitter | Chitter is a Twitter clone built in Ruby on Sinatra |
Rock, Paper, Scissors | A small Javascript game of RPS built using Express |
An Instagram clone built in Rails and using Bootstrap on the front-end. |
Most Comfortable | Comfortable | Touched on | |
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Languages | Ruby, HTML/CSS | Javascript | Python |
Databases/ORMS | PostGresQL, DataMapper, ActiveRecord | Neo4j | |
Frameworks | Rails, Sinatra, Bootstrap | Express.js | Angular.js,Meteor.js |
Testing | RSpec, Capybara | Jasmine, FactoryGirl, Fabricator | |
Other | Version control through Github, TDD | Heroku deployment, Agile methodologies |
Highly selective 12 week intensive coding bootcamp.
- Strict focus on Test Driven Development, with an emphasis on pair programming and working in an agile way
- Object oriented programming, software design
- Full stack web development
- Final project: Grape! - a Rails social music discovery website that connects you to users with similar Spotify music libraries
BSc Investment and Financial Risk Management. Grade: 1st Class Honors
Intern Structured Products Marketer, Societe Generale: June 2014 - February 2015 A short term internship with a French investment bank working for the structured products marketing team. Responsibilities included drafting presentations to pitch to clients and backtesting products using Excel to record their historical performance
Intern Equity Research Analyst, RWC Partners: June 2011 - August 2012 A 14 month internship where I held the responsibility of monitoring a collection of stocks and reporting to the portfolio manager any changes in news that could affect the stock price in the near term
8 Month Tour Across Africa July 2013 - March 2014 I booked a one way ticket to Cape Town after my graduation and hoped for the best. My plan was made up as I went along, but after some time decided to travel to Cairo from Cape Town without flying. This trip took 8 months, and saw me climb Kilimanjaro, meet some Ugandan mountain gorillas, work for a Zambian children's charity, and land in hospital after getting ambushed and beaten in Sudan by a group of men. I travelled to 12 countries in total and wrote about it all on this blog: Investment Backpacker https://investmentbackpacker.wordpress.com/
2 Month Tour Across India May 2015 - July 2015 I flew to Mumbai and decided to immerse myself in Indian life. I immersed myself a bit too much, which led to 4 hospital visits in just 2 months, often due to food poisoning or a bad reaction to the heat. Despite having to fly home a month early due to another bout of illness, I loved travelling across the subcontinent. South India was my favourite region and the scenery and cuisine had everything to do with that.
3 Month Tour Around the World June 2009 - September 2009 I took my first backpacking trip around the world as I just turned 19. This led to experiences camping in Namibia, bungee jumping in New Zealand, shark diving in South Africa, trekking in China, and many many more.
Adventures, Extreme Sports, Stand-up Comedy.
- Email: [email protected]
- Phone: 078501 22007
- Github: @Adrian1707
- Twitter: @Adrian1707
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianfbooth
- Codewars http://www.codewars.com/users/Adrian1707
- Coding Blog: http://ontheroadtocode.blogspot.co.uk/
- Travel Blog: https://investmentbackpacker.wordpress.com/
- Time Magazine 2006 Person of the Year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_(Time_Person_of_the_Year)