I'm a linguist, musician, and software engineer.
Human languages:
Français
اللغة العربية
Español
Italiano
فارسی
Instruments:
Drums
Percussion
Beatboxing
Keys
About Me
Why I Do What I Do...
I am passionate about connecting with people of other cultures. There is a common thread running between coding, language and music, in that all three of these domains enable human beings to do this!
How I Got Here...
In many ways, the study of Modern Languages is the study of how people and cultures work: therefore, it is not a huge stretch for someone to apply skills gained from this field to the study of how machines work. In 2018, I dropped out of my teacher training course at Newcastle University and started teaching myself to code out of curiosity. This led to me applying for a place at the Sparta Global Academy bootcamp, where I was trained to be a test automation engineer. I went from never having written a line of code in my life to getting my first job as a software engineer in six months.
View my STEM role model profile on My Skills My Life here
I love making cool things like this:
Software Projects
Musical Projects
The Mighty John Street Ska Orchestra
For the past three years I have been playing the drums in TMJSSO: a fourteen-piece band covering the music of The Skatalites and Herbie Hancock. We regularly play national festivals such as WOMAD and Boomtown, as well as smaller regional festivals like Stroud Fringe.