I'm Chet, and I am obsessed with code. Nothing makes me happier than having a project to dive in to.
I have a foundation degree in Biomedical Sciences, and a level 3 qualification in software development as well as being a Makers Academy Graduate.
Makers teaches its students to be language agnostic, it sounds like a marketing term, but stick with me on this, all of their graduates are taught how to learn rather than being spoon fed their information.
An example of this is that in one week, myself and a team of 3 other students learned a brand new web framework and delivered a project within our allocated time.
My strong foundation in programming and Git leaves me in a position to learn a new language at the tip of a hat, in 3 months I learned Ruby and JS to a functioning level, I did this with a solid and disciplined regime of 8 hours immersion at work and 2 hours of study after work every day.
This is a set of quotes other developers have made about me:
- Determined.
- Really helpful, generous, available, dedicated! Clearly has a passion for coding!
- Fantastic person. Always willing to help. Comes up with new ideas non-stop. Good clean code.
- Chet is always willing to learn and new technology.
- Chet already has a huge amount knowledge of a lot of the tech from his experiences, and now Makers has given him the structure and team experience!
- Not afraid of ghosts.
- I have achieved an Access to higher education foundation degree in Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
- Independent and Team experience in a small development environment.
- Fluent in VoiceCode.io to a professional standard.
- Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS, Ruby and postgreSQL.
- Knowledge of Wordpress, AngularJS, React, Meteor and NodeJS, Sinatra, and Rails.
- Strong knowledge of Git and Heroku.
- Strong foundation in Programming and Penetration Testing.
- Competent in Unix systems including bash and SSH.
- Majority of the knowledge I have is self gained out of interest and drive.
While I may not have the specific skill set you require at the moment, given the chance I will learn. I have a versatile and shifting skill set, with the experience and drive to get things done.
Founded DerbyDevs IT.
DerbyDevs IT is a community of students that started on FreeCodeCamp, we meet monthly and work on projects to help us become more complete developers. This was a reaction to the lack of web focused meetups in the city. It is an encouraging and focused learning environment where the philosophy is that everyone has something to learn, and every one has something to teach.
- Curiosity and hungry passion for code
- Independent learner and problem-solver
- OOP, TDD, SOLID, MVC, DDD
- Software Craftsmanship
- Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Javascript, Node.js, Angular.js, Meteor.
- Rspec, Jasmine, Mocha, Chimp
- Access to Biological and Biomedical Sciences
- Software Design and Development ( Focus on computer mathematics and C++ )
IBox Security (01/09/2003 to 01/03/2014)
Software and Web Developer
Maintaining and building client websites
Wordpress
Magento
PHP
MySQL
Self Employed (01/04/2014 to 02/04/2015) Worked as a video game streamer on Twitch.tv streaming Dark Souls and Diablo 3
Axess Systems (May 2015 to Dec 2016)
Web and Software Developer
Maintaining and developing the Webstore and main Website Analysing web traffic to generate leads Administrating the Salesforce installation
Free Lance (On Going) I have had a variety of customers during my web development career and I can provide project links upon request (subject to NDAs).
- I have been learning to code by voice only.
- I'm a guitarist.
- I have a serious interest in the InfoSec community.
- Mechatronics is an area that I've been exploring.