Dan Anglin
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Changes include: - update current job title. - update personal summary. - add configuration management category for skills section. - add Terraform and Vault to the skills section. - add details on Experian experience. - refactor details on other experiences. - remove learning Japanese from hobbies. - add some details regarding personal projects.
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{
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"firstName": "Dan",
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"lastName": "Anglin",
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"jobTitle": "Platform Engineer (SRE)",
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"contact": {
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"email": "d.n.i.anglin@gmail.com",
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"location": "Hertfordshire, UK"
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},
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"links": {
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"gitlab": "https://gitlab.com/dananglin",
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"github": "https://github.com/dananglin"
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},
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"summary": [
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"I have over five years of professional experience in DevOps and Platform Automation.",
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"My experience ranges from provisioning virtual machines and automating",
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"software installation using Ansible and Puppet, to provisioning new Kubernetes",
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"environments using GitOps and creating Operators for the auto provisioning and",
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"maintenance of PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes.",
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"I have enjoyed using Go to build automated services in Kubernetes and I am keen on",
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"using Go more professionally as well as learning new skills and",
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"technologies as I continue to grow in my career as a Software Engineer."
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],
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"technologies": [
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{
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"category": "Programming Languages",
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"values": [
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"Go",
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"Bash",
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"Python"
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]
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},
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{
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"category": "Cloud Hosting",
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"values": [
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"AWS",
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"Openstack",
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"UKCloud"
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]
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},
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{
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"category": "Containerisation",
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"values": [
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"Docker",
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"Kubernetes",
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"LXD"
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]
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},
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{
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"category": "Continuous Integration",
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"values": [
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"Git",
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"GitLab",
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"GitLab CI",
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"Nexus",
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"Jenkins"
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]
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},
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{
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"category": "Monitoring and Alerting",
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"values": [
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"Prometheus",
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"Alertmanager",
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"Grafana"
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]
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},
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{
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"category": "Configuration Management",
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"values": [
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"Ansible",
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"Puppet"
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]
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},
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{
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"category": "Other Tools, Services or Frameworks",
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"values": [
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"GNU/Linux",
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"HashiCorp Terraform",
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"HashiCorp Vault",
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"Elasticsearch",
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"Logstash",
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"Fluentd",
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"Kibana",
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"PostgreSQL",
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"Kanban",
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"Scrum"
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]
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}
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],
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"employment": [
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{
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"company": "Experian",
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"location": "Nottingham",
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"jobTitle": "Platform Engineer (SRE)",
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"duration": {
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"start": {
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"year": "2020",
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"month": "April"
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},
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"present": "yes"
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},
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"details": [
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"Managed production AWS cloud infrastructure and hosted platforms using Terraform.",
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"Managed secret and sensitive data using HashiCorp Vault and Terraform.",
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"General support for development teams.",
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"Helped onboard new team members to the team."
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]
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},
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{
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"company": "Ocado Technology",
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"location": "Hatfield, Hertfordshire",
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"jobTitle": "Platform Automation Engineer",
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"duration": {
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"start": {
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"year": "2017",
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"month": "January"
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},
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"end": {
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"year": "2020",
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"month": "January"
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}
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},
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"details": [
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"Created a Postgres Operator using Go and the Metacontroller for managing Patroni PostgreSQL clusters on Kubernetes.",
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"Provided assistance for creating a Cassandra Operator using Go.",
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"Deployed new SIT Kubernetes environments on Openstack using GitOps.",
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"Created satellite services on Kubernetes using CronJobs to automate the maintenance of Elasticsearch clusters.",
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"Deployed Prometheus, Alertmanager and Grafana onto Kubernetes for monitoring database services such as PostgreSQL, Cassandra and Elasticsearch.",
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"Helped integrate infrastructure monitoring stacks into a centralised monitoring service as a member of the monitoring and alerting working group.",
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"Managed development tools such as GitLab and Nexus using AWS ECS, AWS CloudFormation and Puppet."
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]
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},
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{
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"company": "QA Consulting (Contracted to CACI)",
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"location": "London",
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"jobTitle": "DevOps Consultant",
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"duration": {
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"start": {
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"year": "2015",
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"month": "March"
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},
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"end": {
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"year": "2016",
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"month": "November"
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}
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},
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"details": [
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"Managed production infrastructure hosted in UKCloud (for public sector clients) and AWS (for private sector clients).",
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"Created Ansible playbooks for network configuration, RedHat/CentOS OS hardening and software installation and configuration.",
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"Created resilient and fault-tolerant infrastructure using tools such as HAProxy and Keepalive.",
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"Created a cross-domain protective monitoring solution using the Elastic stack with Redis.",
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"Installed and configured Nagios/Icinga for infrastructure monitoring.",
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"Helped create a production Docker environment for a client website."
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]
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},
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{
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"company": "QA Consulting (Contracted to IBM)",
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"location": "Home Office, London",
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"jobTitle": "DevOps Consultant",
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"duration": {
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"start": {
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"year": "2014",
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"month": "October"
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},
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"end": {
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"year": "2015",
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"month": "March"
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}
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},
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"details": [
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"Built and supported new development, CIT and SIT environments for new projects at the Home Office.",
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"These environments were built on UKCloud using Jenkins and UKCloud's REST API.",
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"Linux (RedHat/CentOS) virtual machines were provisioned and hardened using Puppet and Jenkins.",
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"Learnt how to work in an Agile environment with Scrum; using JIRA for keeping track of my sprint tasks.",
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"Created documentation for new starters using Confluence."
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]
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},
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{
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"company": "QA Consulting",
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"location": "Worthing",
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"jobTitle": "Trainee DevOps Consultant",
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"duration": {
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"start": {
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"year": "2014",
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"month": "September"
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},
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"end": {
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"year": "2014",
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"month": "October"
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}
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},
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"details": [
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"Completed a two week intensive training course on business analysis. The course covered client engagement, business process modelling, use case modelling and process and evaluation improvements.",
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"Completed a six week hands-on training course on the fundamentals of DevOps and Continuous Integration.",
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"Learnt about various DevOps/CI software including Puppet, Jenkins, Nexus, Maven, Git, Tomcat and the Atlassian tools.",
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"Used Vagrant and Puppet to provision small CI and development environments for the continuous delivery of internal Java projects."
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]
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},
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{
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"company": "School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading",
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"location": "Reading",
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"jobTitle": "Undergraduate Researcher",
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"duration": {
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"start": {
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"year": "2012",
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"month": "July"
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},
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"end": {
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"year": "2012",
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"month": "September"
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}
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},
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"details": [
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"This was a summer internship where I helped developed an interactive Java application that processes Terahertz signals in order to reveal hidden details behind walls.",
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"This was aimed at those who were not specialised in Terahertz signals to use an application to aid in their research in archaeology.",
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"The hidden details were captured in images or videos that could be viewed in a 2D or a 3D virtual environment.",
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"During this internship I learnt new techniques for processing Terahertz signals.",
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"I was able to use sample Terahertz data to reveal and display hidden details within a 3D virtual environment."
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]
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}
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],
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"education": [
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{
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"school": "University of Reading",
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"location": "Reading",
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"qualification": "MEng (Hons) in Robotics, 2:1",
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"duration": {
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"start": {
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"year": "2009",
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"month": "October"
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},
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"end": {
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"year": "2013",
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"month": "July"
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}
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}
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},
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{
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"school": "St Angela's & St Bonaventure's Sixth Form College",
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"location": "London",
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"qualification": "A-Levels in Maths, Physics and Product Design",
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"duration": {
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"start": {
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"year": "2007",
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"month": "September"
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},
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"end": {
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"year": "2009",
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"month": "July"
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}
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}
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}
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],
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"interests": [
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"I enjoy walking/hiking.",
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"I have enjoyed small hikes around London,",
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"between different towns and villages of Hertfordshire",
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"and also along the south coast.",
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"Ingress (an augmented reality and location-based game) has helped me to discover",
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"hidden gems of London and Hertfordshire including",
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"Ellenbrook Fields in Hatfield and a hidden rail trail within Welwyn Garden City.",
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"I'm currently building platforms for personal use including my own Fediverse instance",
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"on Linode using Ansible and my own Forge platform for code hosting.",
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"I mainly keep up-to-date with tech news using news aggregation sites such as Reddit and Hacker News."
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]
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}
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