I'm Mark, a Software Developer and Founder of Cover Drive Cricket, and I love making things that help people or exploring cool new ideas 😄
Aside from technology, I'm an enthusiastic sports player; I've represented Great Britain in 19 international floorball matches 🇬🇧, I play cricket 🏏 and field hockey 🏑 for local clubs, and I've also dabbled in football ⚽, tennis 🎾, rugby 🏉, ice hockey 🏒 and more!
- Created several in-house web apps to improve day-to-day processes for internal teams. Used: AngularJS, CherryPy.
- Created a personal information management app to combine tasks, events, bookmarks, notes and projects. Used: React, Node.js, Google APIs.
- Participated in several hackathons, including winning "Local People's Choice Winner" for a game about global warming (Tux's Arctic Exchange) in the 2018 Nasa SpaceApps Challenge.
- Built on prior research around machine learning algorithms to train an agent that plays Ms Pacman. Used: Python, OpenAI.
- Created proof-of-concept apps in different verticals: an Android app, Atom extensions, and a Firefox browser extension.
- Led teams to design and implement a student-facing insights feature, allowing students to see the progress they're making in an easy-to-understand way.
- Worked with a senior PO to bring a new independent learning product to market, reaching 20,000+ users in a few months, and rapidly iterating on features based on user feedback.
- Collaborated with Design, Marketing, Customer Relations, Content and other teams across several large-scale projects, but also on rapidly releasing smaller changes to specific deadlines.
- Run user testing sessions (across a variety of different types of users) that informed upcoming feature development.
- Worked with SPOs and contributed towards short-term roadmaps.
Please get in touch if any of this sounds interesting to you! 📫
Thanks to anuraghazra for the stats!