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Who am I?

Hi, I'm Alex. I came to coding later in life than I would have liked, but I'm making up for lost time. This is me in a garden: →

profile shot of Alex in a garden looking at the camera

I have two core beliefs:

  1. That anything you want to do in software engineering is possible;
  2. That a computer won't beat me if I work hard enough at a problem.

So far, that's held true (though possible does not always mean practicable). My fortuitous cocktail of optimism, thirst for knowledge, stubborn grit, curiosity, and willingness to "dive in" have served me well and I am now comfortable tackling most front-end problems that come my way.

profile shot of Alex in a garden looking at the camera

Where did I come from?

Geographically speaking, I was brought up in Kent but then my family moved to France, and later Spain, so there's been a heavy European influence. I like a siesta and have an addiction to gazpacho.

I studied law, which was great for my problem-solving side, but did nothing for my creativity. Fortunately, I realised this quite early on and moved into less constrained workplaces in luxury leisure and hospitality.

Computers have always seemed to like me, or perhaps I'm lucky with them, but they often seem to do what I want them to do. And I like them. Because of this, every job I've been in has ended up having a heavy tech element. I wrote my first bit of code in 2019—a Python script that interacted with the Apple News and HubSpot APIs—and applied for a coding bootcamp shortly after, resolved to turn coding into a career.

Where am I going?

This sounds artificial, but I want to be the best coder I can be. Someone another developer would be glad to work with. Someone who writes clean, well-documented, maintainable code that a newcomer could navigate with relative ease.

I want to keep learning and to develop my skills in an environment where my coding knowledge and abilities are constantly pushed to their limits.