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emilyjspencer/README.md

   🌟 Software Engineer | Software Analyst | Technical Consultant | MBCS | JavaScript, C#, Python

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   👩‍💻 Versatile individual, a self starter with an aptitude for learning, mathematically minded, a passion for problem-solving and an interest in development and data.

Professional experience

BP |

Technologies working with: C# .Net, Specflow, NUnit, Moq, Entity Framework Core, WCF, Infragistics, SQL, Splunk, OpenShift, Powershell, AzureDevOps, Excel, Python

Building knowledge of LNG trading and the Energy Trading and Risk Management industry.

Working within a vast and complex architecture which makes up BP's LNG ETRM system.

Improving working knowledge of complex software architecture and system design.

Vanguard |

Technologies worked with: Angular, Jest, AEM , Storybook, Cypress, GraphQL, SCSS. Worked on an Angular component library and Vanguard's public investor website

Morgan Stanley |

Technologies worked with: Java, Spring, JUnit. Worked on a repo trading platform.

FDM |

Led a project to build out a recruitment tool using React, Spring Boot, MySQL, co-led a second project, using the same tech stack, implementing authentication and authorisation using Spring Security. Designed and implemented all React components for both projects, testing functionality with the help of React Testing Library and Jest. Built out the Spring Boot repository, service, model and controller layers. Database structure and design (MySQL). Wireframing. This work enabled the second project team to move away from a PowerApps implementation.

Worked on two projects, ingesting and manipulating large datasets. Utilised PySpark to glean useful insights into data and answer questions. Built machine-learning pipelines and end-to-end data pipelines with PySpark and MLlib. Gained knowledge of data lakes, data warehouses, data marts, ETL process, ELT, RDDs, DataFrames, parallel processing.

Upskilled in LangChain in preparation for work on an AI-powered Job prep platform (first venture into AI since Makers Academy (where I worked on a financial chatbot using TensorFlow, TFLearn, Python React, NLTK Django)

Technologies worked with: React, Spring Boot, Python, LangChain, Spring Security, JUnit, SQL, React Testing Library, PySpark, DataBricks, Jest, MLlib, MatPlotLib, Apache Spark.

Current focus:

C#.Net WCF, PowerShell, DevOps tooling, Cloud & Infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Splunk, AWS, Azure Devops)
System Design, Python

Currently working within a vast and complex architecture which constitutes BP's LNG ETRM system and building working knowledge of the LNG industry.

Personal goals (1- 2 years):

  • Improve knowledge of architecture and design patterns, system design, systems thinking, networking, security (in addition to learning the ins and outs of LNG trading and building a data portfolio)

  • Obtain the following:

  • CompTIA Network+

  • CompTIA Security+

  • AWS Certified Developer Associate certification

  • Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals

  • AWS Cloud practitioner certification

  • DataCamp Data Engineer Associate Certification

  • Data Analyst Associate Certification

  • Work on the following:

  • Personal Angular and .Net applications which make use of many of my skills e.g. data pipelines, data visualization, microservices, AI, machine learning pipelines, AWS

  • Contribute to Open Source

  • Data projects

Education:

Makers Academy

  • OOP, MVC, OOD,
  • Ruby, Rails
  • JavaScript
  • Testing with RSpec, Jasmine, Capybara
  • Git
  • SQL

FDM

  • Java Python
  • Spring, Spring Boot,
  • Business Writing, Presentation skills
  • React
  • Unix and shell scripting,
  • SQL,
  • JDBC, JPA, JSP
  • JUnit
  • PySpark, Apache Spark

The University of Sheffield - BA Modern Languages

Societies: Dance society, French society, film making society, Medic's orchestra, SUPAS - Sheffield University Performing Arts Society, SUTco - Sheffield University theatre company

A Levels: Maths, Biology, French, German AS Level: Economics

Extra-curricular: ABRSM Grade 8 piano, ABRSM Grade 5 violin, RAD Grade 6 ballet, ISTD Grade 6 modern dance, ISTD Grade 6 tap dance - through the Jeanne Bamforth School of Dancing, Victoria College Senior Silver Speech and Drama. I competed in various competitions such as Richmond Upon Thames Festival of the Performing Arts and Kingston Upon Thames Festival of the Performing Arts, played at various concerts, including local Young musicians and ABRSM High Scorer concerts. I also performed in various dance shows with the Jeanne Bamforth School of Dancing.

Additional skills

  • ReactJS
  • Angular
  • SCSS
  • Jest
  • RxJS
  • React Testing Library
  • GraphQL
  • AEM
  • Cypress
  • Storybook
  • Jupyter Notebooks
  • Databricks

Codewars:

https://www.codewars.com/users/lajoiedevivre89

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