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From physiology to production.
I studied how bodies work before I studied how software does. Physiology taught me to measure before changing anything, and that habit came with me: when the banking page I worked on at Lloyds got faster, we had timed ten loads on each version first.
Most of what I am proud of was never assigned. A mock data service six engineers used every day. An evidence tool that saves writing the same report by hand for every change. A monitoring datasource that had been missing for years, which nobody noticed until I checked.
The path
- 2016–2021
Physiology and sports science
BSc Physiology and an MSc in Sports & Exercise Science and Medicine at the University of Glasgow. Captain of the university gymnastics club in 2019–2020.
- 2023
Into software
A software engineering bootcamp at Digital Futures. The projects on this site started there.
- 2024–2026
Lloyds Banking Group
Java and React on a business banking modernisation, and an apprenticeship with Firebrand, finished with a Distinction while working full time.
- 2026
JPMorgan Chase
A distributed platform that validates people and payments, and the internal tools around it.
- Next
Go and Python
Learning both the way I learned Java: by building things that run.
Discipline
I have trained in martial arts since I was eight. What carries over is patience with practice: every week I split my time between solving problems, learning new concepts and building something real, because getting good takes longer than any course.