My name is Ashley K. Smith, I am a 24 year old computer scientist, open source enthusiast and tinkerer.
Contant information can be found on my CV.
Education
2011 - 2014 1st Class BSc(Hons) in Computer Science, Birmingham City University.
2009 - 2011 Bachelor of Technology, National Diploma, Canterbury College.
Received DDM(Or AAB in A levels).
2008 - Bachelor of Technology, First Diploma, Thanet College
Received D* (Or 4 A grades in GCSEs)
Experience
February 2018 - Present. Full Stack Developer
Nemesys Oy, Finland .
- Working as a member of a small software consultancy. Partially remote but based in Helsinki.
- Responsible for various software solutions using a Node / Typescript / PostgreSQL / React software stack with some react-native, all hosted on AWS.
- Involves working directly with clients to deliver software solutions to specifications and solve issues.
January 2017 - June 2017. Software Developer,
NOKIA Oy, Finland .
- Member of the Nokia OVNI industrial drone R&D team.
- Responsible for the onboard and payload sensor integrations to flight computers.
- Software in C/C++/Python on various ARM/Intel based platforms
- Research into automated flight of drones in GPS denied environments.
- Involved calibrating, configuring and piloting drones.
February 2016 - June 2016. Software Developer,
QuayTech Systems, United Kingdom .
- Performed duties ranging from onsite support and software development and maintenance
- Mostly maintained factory and sales software written in Visual Basic, C# web forms, JS and Jquery/MSSQL
- Task automation in powershell
September 2014 - September 2015. Software Developer,
SGL Broadcast, United Kingdom .
- Developing and maintaining world leading content archiving and storage management software.
- C/C++, LAMP devlopment.
May 2013 - June 2014. Junior Developer, Bluehub Solutions, United Kingdom.
- Worked in a team of developers within deadlines and to specifications
- Involved direct interaction with clients either remotely or in person
- Predominantly worked on database driven websites in PHP and some C# MVC
March 2008. First line I.T support technician
- Worked with a small, focused team dealing with businesses in Kent.
- Involved giving support via phone, onsite or with remote connection(VNC).
- Maintaining and repairing hardware and software issues.
Awards and accomplishments
Course representative, 2011-2013 - Birmingham City University
Course representative, 2009 - 2011 - Canterbury College
World Skills UK 2011 - Microsoft IT Technician, 2nd Place
World Skills UK 2010 - Microsoft IT Technician, Participation
Professional related competences
- Programming languages: PHP, CSS/HTML, C#, C/C++, Javascript, jQuery, Java, Python.
- Operating Systems: All major Windows operating systems, Linux(Debian)
- Databases: Oracle, MySQL, SQLite, MSSQL
- Networking: CISCO
Some of my example projects can be seen here:
- For my final year project at University I made a rover using a raspberry pi, which can be seen here
- Java Raketti, is a asteroids-like game. Can be seen at: Greenfoot.org
