For my charity day at UKCloud, I helped to inspire young people to recognise their skills.
MoreI volunteered as an assisting instructor to a diverse class of female/BME first-time programmers.
MoreAs my final second year hackathon, I used my learnings from MLH Prime to explore Kiwi.js and build a web-based dodgeball game.
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Inspired by Super Mario Odyssey, I explored Alexa Skills Kit and Discord's API, and built an API of my own surrounding the game's collectibles to work with the two.
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As a Brand Ambassador for Nintendo, I assisted with the Super Mario Odyssey launch.
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I led a team of first-time hackers using Express and Node.js.
MoreUsing GitHub's GraphQL API, I helped build a front-facing organisation page. This hack was the start of a week-long tech pilgrimage to the USA, featuring GitHub and Google.
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Our team created a prototype of an online multiplayer Bomberman clone, using a .NET socket server.
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We learned the ins and out of using APIs such as GitHub and Twitter. I have since worked on reimplementing it in Ruby.
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The product of my first hackathon, a text adventure game engine via Amazon Alexa with live web statistics.
MoreI am a second-year student at the University of Sheffield, studying a four-year course in Computer Science including a year in industry. My main aim is to become a software developer, with the goal of building things that others will enjoy or find useful, no matter their level of skill. I am passionate about technologies such as Git, GitHub and Vim, and I like to explore and get involved in the local student hackathon community.
"Simon has an ability to take a complex task (both IT-related and non-IT) and not only turn it around extremely quickly, but also to apply a level of thought and ingenuity of someone a number of years more experienced. It's this level of output and creativity which made the decision to bring Simon back after a few months in his summer holiday extremely easy."
Andy Sykes, formerly of Pera Technology
Simon's enthusiasm towards helping out at the Code First: Girls community courses in Sheffield was so admirable. His ability to communicate complex technical concepts to complete beginners is an important one to have in our increasingly multi-disciplinary world.
His genuine passion to help the tech community mixed in with his impressive technical knowledge and skills has made it a pleasure to work with him.
Pauline Narvas, Code First Girls instructor
I'm beginning to make regular contributions on GitHub, having participated in Hacktoberfest 2018. Here are a few stats straight from GitHub that'll give you a picture of what I'm up to.
I do my best to help the tech community in a variety of ways. My GitHub Organisations show who I've worked with - find out more about them here.
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