Hi, I'm James. A Full-stack engineer.
I am Makers Fellowship graduate currently working as a Full Stack Engineer at the Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange. My background in engineering has crafted me into an extremely technical individual with a love of problem solving. I am profoundly deaf, I want to prove to other deaf people that they can make it in the tech industry, hopefully one day I can help them in the future to achieve their dreams.
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Quick Learner - Able to pick up new technologies quickly and effectively. In my current role in the Innovation Exchange, I need to learn new stacks quickly to create potential prototyes for clients
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Inquisitive - I love learning, researching anything that piques my interest, from learning about engines to cooking techniques. I relish learning about different technolgies, learning about how to be the best code craftsman I can.
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Finer details - Throughout my working life I have had to apply intricate attention to detail, I have gained this in my engineering background. Commissioning sensor systems where a small detail can affect the entire infrastructure. I apply this to my coding, as I learn more about syntax I can spot things very quickly.
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Drive - I am highly motivated, I relish a challenge. My success in getting into the Fellowship programme in Makers is an example of this, I pushed myself above and beyond to achieve my dream.
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Team player - I have always been a team player, willing to offer my help or experience whenever required.
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Adaptable - I am profoundly deaf, adpatation comes naturally to me in this world with a hearing majority. I have worked around Europe with various teams with language barriers included!
Makers Fellowship, enrolled in the highly selective 12 week intensive Full Stack coding bootcamp.
- Great collaborator - My background as a Commissioning Engineer saw me collaborating with other companies, in the UK and abroad.
- Test Driven Development - Makers teach the fundamental importance of TDD in projects
- Agile - scrums, stand-ups, mobbing - I'm AGILE
- HND Computing with Software Development module - Merit Grade
- 11 GCSE's 1 C, 9 B's and 1 A
- AS Level Physics C
Capgemini AIE (July 2019 ongoing) - Emerging Technology Engineer/Full Stack Engineer
Creating innovative solutions to solve client problems, using emerging technologies wherever possible. I have worked with many technologies across various prototyping projects. We focus on rapid prototyping with emerging technologies to develop greenfield projects.
- Working in small sprint teams to devise a solution, coming up with Tech Stacks and then implementing/creating the solution. Collabrating with UX designers to tailor the best experience.
- Keeping in the loop with emerging technology by researching and monitoring the web space.
- Learning and adapting to new tech stacks on the fly, each project may have a different or new unknown stack!
Example projects I have worked on:
Working on concept store using AI and Computer vision to aid hands free shopping and analyse customer behaviour also a try on virtual clothes feature. Integrate low energy bluetooth beacons within the store to track customer location and deliver content. Creating API endpoints to integrate analytics data to the front-end using Node and Google cloud platform (GCP).
Tech stack:
- React Native and React Web Frameworks
- HTML, CSS, Styled-components, JS, NodeJS with Google Cloud Platform
Developed and shipped a geo-location-based web app for local business to register and advertise products during COVID-19. Developed a serverless REST API using geo-location and integrated results into the frontend.
Tech stack:
- StencilJS Framework
- HTML, Styled-components, NodeJS with Google Cloud Platform (Firebase)
Pharmagraph (January 2014 to January 2019) - Commissioning Engineer
Development a commissioning of Pharmaceutical monitoring systems installed worldwide. Ranging from NHS, Private pharma, packaging machine developers and many others.
- Terminating of electrical cables, installing various sensors/monitoring equipment. Electrical panel termination and wiring.
- Creation of electrical drawings, hardware drawings and room layouts using CAD 2D software.
- Calibration of various sensor/monitoring equipment (Temperature/Humidity sensors, Particle Monitoring Counters,Gas/VOC Sensors)
- Creating high quality Project Documentation such as User Requirement Specifications, Qualification protocols and hardware testing protocols.
Fresenius Kabi (September 2011 to December 2014) - Technical Specialist
Worked within a team co-ordinating packaging lines for the despatch of oncology drugs to hospitals all around Europe. Operated/repaired complex machines that do tasks such as labelling, shrink sleeving and carton printing.
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Cars & Anything petrol powered - I am an absolute petrolhead, I could probably bore you to death talking about cars.
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Cooking & beer - Built my own kitchen for this very reason, enjoy regular ale tasting sessions.
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Email: jamesmikedavies@gmail.com
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Github: j-dav
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Linkedin: James Davies