A software development company that, currently, provides software for fire safety services and law firms. The company is an accredited Microsoft Gold Partner which greatly increases their ability to remain up-to-date in an ever-changing industry.

Technologies that the company uses includes C#, ASP.NET, Azure, Docker; and more. I started the role as a graduate software developer, working as part of an agile development team.

Technically a promotion from the following IT Help Desk role, although not officially a promotion. It is the university's first line of contact for staff, students, and third parties with issues related to Napier's IT.

The following Help Desk listed is managed by people in this role, and is capable of less complex work. This role is more complex as it plays a more active part in supporting the university, in relation to staff members, other departments, and more sensitive software/data.

I provided IT support to students, and sometimes staff, on-campus. I also had to maintain some of the hardware for the university; exclusively PCs and peripherals (monitors, projectors, etc) in the campus' student's computing centre because this is where the desk is located.

I co-ran weekly Programming Surgeries sessions, aimed at helping fellow students in lower year groups learn and debug code. The issues students came with often related to coursework they were given, so we therefore had to figure out how to help them learn and not write code for them.

Sometimes students approached with issues that I had never faced (regarding libraries, languages, and concepts I'd never seen). In this case, it was a great learning opportunity that also challenged my problem solving skills; due to having to help students learn while learning myself.

In my third year at Edinburgh Napier University, I participated in a group project consisting of myself and three others. We were selected by the charity Street Soccer Scotland to work on the project, and we worked as part of a P3.express agile development team.

The objective was to develop the ground work of a new interactive learning environment that Street Soccer Scotland would use to expand into different countries and train coaches around the world. Our work was then carried on by another team of developers who were provided the base of the website that we had developed.

A start-up company, aspiring to build an interesting social media and chat app that aims to simplify planning social events.

During my time with Buzz, I worked on a few of their projects: mobile app (Flutter), back-end API (Django), and their AWS and Docker deployment. I also got experience developing some interesting features, such as a live chat, authentication, mobile app UI/UX, and much more!

The following is a list of the modules I took each year.

Year 1:
• Computer Systems 1 (consisted of computer hardware, networking, and operating systems)
• Foundations of Software Design and Development
• Foundation Mathematics
• Introduction to Human Computer Interaction
• Programming Fundamentals
• Mathematics for Software Engineering

Year 2:
• Operating Systems
• Database Systems
• Object Oriented Software Development
• Algorithms and Data Structures
• Mobile Applications Development
• Software Engineering Methods

Year 3:
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Analytics
• Software Engineering (consisted of design, development, testing, and agile methodologies)
• Computing in Contemporary Society
• Group Project (Street Soccer PITCH)
• Advanced Database Systems

Year 4:
• Honours Project
• Agile Project Management
• Concurrent and Parallel Systems
• Formal Approaches to Software Engineering
• Secure Software Development

In-depth coverage of Git's and GitHub's tools; roll backs, version tagging, the reference log, upstream branches, and much more.

The course taught me how to develop a back-end API in Python Flask that could receive and respond to HTTP requests. It covered user authentication, Model-View-Controller architectures, and Object Relational Mappers with Flask SQLAlchemy.