Envisioning and building
concepts into reality.

console.log("Hey, I'm Brandon");

About

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. [Albert Einstein] Programming is the art of bringing these ideas to life.

Whilst studying mathematics through school and now continuing at university, I've strived to find reason. Compiling this with my passion for programming I believe mathematics is a language of reasoning with minimal ambiguity. This synchronises with the art of programming as it motivates logical construction and thought that goes in the production of code. By combining these two fields I strive to conjecture ideas and then make them tangible and into a reality.

A specific interest of mine lies in artificial intelligence. During my A-Levels I wrote an academic paper (2020) discussing the bridge between human and artificial intelligences motivated by NeuraLink. Both the theory and application of A.I is relatively new and I wish to expand the potential of this field.

Current Focus: Ecommerce Presence // Custom Payment Integration // Custom Product Search Engine

Experience

Console Controllers

Back-End Web Developer

Console Controllers ecommerce website that sells electronic products through a custom built checkout system.

Developed Product

Developed core features across entire framework (50k+ lines of code)
Lead back-end development creating, testing and debugging any logical implementation
Custom designed logic to allow for smooth interaction with other stacks
Python testing on external API's including Royal Mail address validator
Tools: PHP, cURL, JSON, Python

Accomplishments

Custom checkout system with Stripe and PayPal integrated
Fully functional user authentication system connected with checkout system
MySQL dependent search engine for products with multiple inter-connected filter criterions
Cart/Basket system connected with checkout system
Order management system available to higher access authentication and checkout order system

Jun 2021 - Jul 2021 | Bedford, UK

Console Controllers

Front-End Web Developer

Console Controllers ecommerce website that sells electronic products through a custom built checkout system.

Developed Product

Designed and developed front-end core design package (30k+ lines of code)
Lead front-end developer, creating and testing UI design across multiple platforms and devices
Minimal code for increased speed, loading times and cross-device compatability
Modern easy, accessible, semantic UI/UX unique to the brand.
Bootstrap package for optimised UI layout and placement
Tools: HTML, CSS // JS, AJAX, JQuery // Bootstrap, Owl-Carousel

Accomplishments

Interactive, simplistic yet effective UI design with fast rendering image load times
Smooth slideshow like product showcase, semantic to UI layout
Implemented Open Graph meta tags to increase online social presence
Interdependent page link construction to guide the user around navigation
Minimal checkout UI, effective for increased sales

May 2021 - Jun 2021 | Bedford, UK

Console Controllers

Google Advertisement Integration

Integrated Google Ads into Console Controllers with automated product data fetch API

Integrated an existing Google product into the framework using API documentation
Built a fetch API suited for the Google Ads algorithm.

Accomplishments

Expanded a business to multiple dimensions through stacking existing code onto a built framework
Gained experience in understanding how Google products work with customers and how their integration processes are built

Jul 2021 - Present | Bedford, UK

Projects

Console Controllers

Ecommerce website selling electronics

Accomplishments

PHP backend
HTML, CSS frontend
Checkout system via Stripe/PayPal
Custom built API

Fight My Monster

Trading card game

Accomplishments

NodeJS server serving real-time experience
HTML5, JS, CSS frontend
Load balancing system built into backend
Scalable design

Skills

HTML

HTML5

CSS

CSS3

Bootstrap

Materialize

Javascript

jQuery

Back-End

PHP

Python

MySQL

NodeJS

Payment Integrations

Stripe

PayPal

Google Technologies

Google Ads

Google Merchant Centre

Other

Github

Photoshop

Illustrator

Awards

Middle School Computing Award

End of year computing award runner up and winner | June 2016

Awarded by head of computing for making most progress as a computing student and as recognition for "outstanding learning, listening, mentoring for others."

Intermediate Mathematical Challenge

Mathematics challenge held by UK Mathematics Trust | June 2018

Awarded by UK Mathematics Trust for scoring into the gold medal threshold and as recognition for "consistent problem solving ability."

Senior Mathematical Challenge

Mathematics challenge held by UK Mathematics Trust | June 2019

Awarded by UK Mathematics Trust for scoring into the gold medal threshold and as recognition for "consistent problem solving ability."

Cambridge Chemistry Challenge

Cambridge Lower Sixth Chemistry Challenge | February 2020

Awarded by the University of Cambridge for scoring into the gold boundary threshold and as recognition for "demonstrating exceptional ability to tackle a range of different chemical topics under time pressure."

UK Chemistry Olympiad

UK Chemistry Olympiad Royal Society of Chemistry | November 2020

Awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry for scoring into the silver boundary threshold. Run annually, the UK Chemistry Olympiad is the leading chemistry competition for students in secondary education across Britain, encouraging young chemists to develop their skills and test their knowledge in new situations