Welcome to my website.
Hello there! My name is Ben; a computer science graduate from Swansea, Wales.
I am a software engineer with a passion for all things tech.
Outside of programming I enjoy playing video games, building computers, and gardening. I have a hobby for mixology and creating cocktail recipes.
Experience
Ziax
August 2019 - April 2024
Marketplace Coordinator
July 2020 - April 2024
Manager - Design Team
October 2019 - July 2020
Designer - Behaviour Engineer
August 2019 - October 2019
Technocamps
October 2019 - July 2023
Student Ambassador
October 2019 - July 2023
Education
Swansea University
September 2019 - July 2023
BSc Computer Science (with a year in industry)
First Class Honours
Final year modules on Web Application Development, User Experience, Video Games Programming, Writing Mobile Applications, High Integrity Systems, Embedded System Design.
Ysgol Gyfun Emlyn
September 2012 - July 2019
A-Levels (AACC) & GCSEs (A*-C)
Projects
Microcontroller Project
Writing C++ code with Mbed OS for various projects using the FRDM-K64F board.
Forum Web Application
Using Laravel to build a forum web application with MVC structure, Eloquent ORM, Blade templating engine, and more.
Video Game Coursework
Creating a Frogger-style video game in Unity with C#.
Developing an Interactive Socially Assistive Robot
My dissertation project where I created a viable, affordable robot using Python software and a Raspberry Pi.
News Aggregator App
Using Android Studio to design a news aggregator app written in Kotlin.
Embedded System Design
Applying the knowledge of embedded systems to program an EV3 robot to complete various tasks.
Wind Turbine System
Writing a safety critical system for a wind turbine in Spark Ada.
Technocamps
Senior Ambassador for Technocamps, a Welsh Government funded project to promote Computer Science in schools.
Ziax & CubeCraft
Associate Producer for Minecraft marketplace team.
Traffic Improvement
Winning Project in PA Consulting's Raspberry Pi Competition.
Galaxie
My Welsh Baccalaureate Project, I developed a client software for game server hosting.
GroupQuiz
A website that can host activites such as quizzes and voting events. This started off as a side project to our school's annual Charities Day.
Pi-Weather
Weather monitoring station written in Python build for an e-ink display on a Pi Zero.
MIDI DMX
A Lighting Desk Control Software prototype programmed for our school's charity day event.
Technocamps 2018
The brief was to create a robot using LEGO Mindstorms that could produce art or music. The team decided to create a 3-axis printer that could place 2x2 LEGO bricks onto a plate.
FLASH Builder
Allows you to build models to print on a LEGO 3D Printer. This was made after winning the 2018 Technocamps Live Challenge.
TopograPy
A Topograph Coordinate Visualizer written in Python.
PetPal
Project code from Team Lightning's Pet Pal hub. This is the project we presented at the FLL Finals in America.
Technocamps 2016
The task was to create a utility for schools to use. We coached a small team and they built a pencil sorter.
Technocamps 2015
The task was to create a sports-related LEGO robot. We won with our creation ZEUS which was a goal keeper.
Team Lightning
Participated in many robotics competitions such as Technocamps and First Lego League.
Contact
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