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SonyaNadesan/README.md

Welcome to my GitHub! 👋

  • 🎓 Studied Software Engineering at Kingston University from September 2014
  • 🎓 Worked as an Academic Mentor and later, as a Teaching Assistant at Kingston University
  • 🎓 Graduated with a First Class Hons and was selected to give the Vote of Thanks at our graduation ceremony
  • 💻 Kick-started my career at GenSight (2017 - 2019), mainly working on spreadsheet development and legacy web applications
  • 💻 I joined the marketing team at leading charity, Marie Curie - developing skills that were more relevant to modern development
  • 💻 Shortlisted in the Future Stars of Tech - Developer Category (2019)
  • 💻 Continued to mentor friends who were aspiting Software Engineers, as well as providing feedback on their CVs
  • 💻 In 2020, I decided to leave Marie Curie after being offered three jobs; accepted offer was pulled due to the pandemic
  • 💻 I had a virtual farewell, and started interviewing virtually. Within a month, I was offered four more jobs
  • 💻 I joined the marketing team at global cyersecurity company, Mimecast (NASDAQ); I was onboarded during the lockdown!
  • 💻 Despite the tech stack being identical to that of Marie Curie's, I played a key role, taking on more complex projects
  • 💻 Involved in suggesting ways to improve how we delivered as a team, writing job specs, CV reviewing & interviewing
  • 💻 My work was recognised by the senior management within the Global Marketing department (Q2 Quarterly Rockstar)
  • 💻 In July 2021, I secured a new role and met my colleagues from Mimecast in-person, at a park, for the first time at my leaving-do!
  • 💻 I joined Investment Bank, Jefferies (NYSE:JEF) as a Full-Stack Developer in the treasury team (my first-ever full-stack role!)
  • 💻 As well as learning new technologies, I am starting to take on other responsibilities such as mentoring and presenting
  • 💻 Contributions to various charities, mainly Cancer Research UK and British Heart Foundation

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  1. OpenSource-2021 OpenSource-2021 Public

    Developed various Nuget Packages for technologies I have worked with throughout my career - including EpiServer CMS for .NET Framework as well as Reusable Code for .NET Core.

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  2. Forum-Web-App-2020 Forum-Web-App-2020 Public

    Written in C# (.NET), EF, MVC, SQL, Identity, SignalR amd JavaScript. I have demonstrated my problem-solving skills as well as my passion for writing clean code, publishing various Nuget packages.

    JavaScript 1 1

  3. Angular-TypeScript Angular-TypeScript Public

    A project set up to understand the basics of Angular/TypeScript including components, services, directives, http client, observables, promises, event emitters and routing.

    TypeScript 3

  4. ReusablePerformanceOptimisedVBAFunctions ReusablePerformanceOptimisedVBAFunctions Public

    Complex, Re-Usable, Performance-Optimised VBA Functions (2017 - 2019).

    VBA 26 3