I'm a curious and creative Software Engineerr, coming from a Marketing and communication background, who graduated from Makers Academy in December 2021 and currently enrolled in a BSc "Computing & IT & Design from The Open University. I moved to London in 2018 to improve my skills as a content creator and here I've found my new passion, or better, I like to say that programming found me instead. 👩🏻💻, I relocated to Edinburgh, Scotland in 2022.
I'm moved by knowledge and challenges, learning new things and putting them into practice has always been essential to me, in my 20s I moved to Tokyo, to learn Japanese, and in 2014 I've learned all that I needed to know about social media marketing, creating a Youtube Channel that has been my business for many years. 🗼
As a creative, programming gives me the tools to develop all of my ideas and to keep me challenged every day. 🌱
| Project | Description | Repositories and Live Links | Technologies |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⚔️ Life of Bernard | A game about becoming a software developer and self-care |
MongoDB, Express, React, NodeJs, Material UI, Jest, Mongoose | |
| 🍑 Peach Focus | Cute Pomodoro timer for productive people. Personal project |
React, CSS | |
| 🗞 NewsFeed API | Weekend challenge - NewsFeed fetching news from The Guardian API. Solo project |
JavaScript, Jest, Bootstrap, CSS | |
| 🐦 Chitter | Weekend challenge - Twitter clone. Solo project |
Ruby, Sinatra, RSpec, Capybara, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap, CSS |
For more, please see my GitHub repo list.
- React(React Query, Redux)
- Next.js
- Typescript
- JavaScript (Node.js, Express, MongoDB, Jest)
- Ruby (Rails, Sinatra, RSpec, Capybara)
- SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, TablePlus)
- HTML, CSS (Bootstrap, Material-UI, Bulma)
- PHP (Laravel,Composer, Mix)
- Git, GitHub (including Pages and Actions), GitLab
- Heroku, AWS
Llloyds Banking Group (Jan-2024 to current)
Software Engineer
The Digital Bench (Jan-2022 to Dec-2023)
Junior Frontend Engineer
- Developed a digital platform from scratch using React, Typescript, React Query and Redux with my team.
- Active role in discussions and presentations of the delivered features.
- Ensured that all code is well documented, reusable, efficient, and follows best practices.
- Used source control tools (GitHub) and participated in daily standups and other SCRUM activities.
- Participated in peer code reviews as appropriate for the task at hand and reviewed others’ code.
YoPlay Media (Jan-2019 to Sept-2021)
Editorial Manager
- I developed the company's main website with React, NextJS, CSS and Bootstrap.
- I organized the content production for some of the most popular Youtube channels for kids, created popular formats and helped the characters and brands to become successful marketable products.
- I've managed a team of content creators and creatives and we successfully translated our videos and stories into nationally published books.
Matcha Latte then A Tale In Color (Feb-2014 to Jan-2019)
Self-Employed
- I've created and curated a Youtube Channel (and its social media) and grew a community of 200k+ people passionate about travel and lifestyle.
- I've managed to create and develop successful product placements campaigns and collaborations with many major brands (Microsoft, Intel, eBay, Expedia, etc.)
💻 Makers Academy (Aug 21 to Dec 21)
After graduating Aulab, I was serious about coding. I resigned from my job and applied to Makers, a 16-week highly selective development bootcamp in London.
Maker's method was quite different from my previous course, being mostly based on self-led learning, pairing sessions and weekend challenges. We started with a strong focus on TDD, testing Ruby programs we crafted with RSpec, followed by BDD, OOD, databases, JavaScript, Jest and other web development technologies.
Makers taught me how to work solo, in pairs and group, as we were always working on different projects and it gave me the confidence to build full-stack applications and use new technologies without any fear.
I've improved my Agile skills as well, especially during the three big group projects, where we used Trello to organize our work, and allowed everyone the opportunity to act as SCRUM master.
💻 Aulab Hackademy (May 21 to Jul 21)
Aulab is a coding BootCamp in Italy, I enrolled in their course where I started my journey to become a software developer.
The lessons were 100% remote, with workshops in the morning and pairing sessions in the afternoon. During this time I've gained most of my front-end and styling skills, with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Bootstrap projects.
The second part was mostly focused on learning PHP, MVC framework Laravel, OOP and MySQL. During this time I've developed a few projects, including a final group project for a Marketplace application in Laravel (named "Presto!").
During this course, I was introduced to Agile methodology, SCRUM and Extreme Programming.
🎨 Carrara Academy of Fine Arts (Sept 2012 to Sept 2014)
I've enrolled a course called "New Technologies of Art" course, where I've learned about art through media like videomaking, photography and creative programming (Processing).
- 👩🏻💻I share my experience on my social media profiles, where I talk about being a woman in tech, fashion technologies and what I'm currently working on.
- 🎸 Music lover, karaoke fan, currently learning how to play the bass guitar.
- 👾I'm a passionate gamer, I enjoy solo adventures, creative and cozy games and multiplayer experiences.
- 👖I enjoy thrifting or sewing accessories, I try and sew my own clothes, in general I try my best to support sustainable fashion.
✈️ I travel and learn new languages, I can speak Japanese and a little bit of French and Spanish. I'd love to learn Korean next.