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| 1 | +# Eoin McCarthy |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | +Full Stack Web Developer based in London. Moving to Nazareth to set up a coding school with Founders and Coders C.I.C. in the new year. Passionate about teaching and learning. |
| 4 | + |
| 5 | +I will be based in London until December, and in the new year will be looking for remote work and jobs based in Israel. |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +## Employment |
| 8 | +### Full Stack Web Developer | DWYL |
| 9 | +###### January 2016 - Current. London, UK. |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +Lead developer. Our product is a stress testing tool for financial regulators. It handles large amounts of data in a complex data model. The server is built with Node, Hapi and PostgreSQL. The client is built with React, Redux, Immutable.js, SASS and ES6. |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +### Full Stack Web Developer, Mentor | Founders and Coders |
| 14 | +###### September 2015 - Current. London, UK. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +Founders & Coders is a UK-based nonprofit organization that runs a tuition-free, peer-led coding academy in London. |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +#### Mentor |
| 19 | +###### January 2016 - Current. London, UK. |
| 20 | +Roles include: |
| 21 | + * Refining the curriculum. |
| 22 | + * Workshops, Q&A sessions. |
| 23 | + * Planning, organisation, promotion of upcoming course in Nazareth. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +In Nazareth, as well as coordinating the course, I will lead our graduates, in small teams, to help deliver quality solutions to start-ups and charities in the technology sector. |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +#### Course |
| 28 | +###### September 2015 - January 2016. London, UK. |
| 29 | +Founders and Coders offer an immersive 16-week full stack JavaScript course. Each week in teams of four we build an web-app MVP. |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +Projects include: |
| 32 | + * A static blogging site using jekyll and gh pages. |
| 33 | + * A news and music site using the Guardian API and Soundcloud API. |
| 34 | + * A chat app using node and redis. |
| 35 | + * Forum using node, redis, web sockets and JWTs. |
| 36 | + * Circle line tube tracking visualisation using D3 and Transport For London API. |
| 37 | + * React component visualising JS objects using D3. |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +As a freelancer after the course, I built a web-app called piccnicc, using node and react. |
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| 42 | +### Android Front End Developer | Freelance |
| 43 | +###### June 2015. Bristol, UK. |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +Added and modified UI elements on a crypto-currency trading app called startchat. This is built on top of the telegram messaging app using android studio and Java. |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +### Research Assistant | Bristol University |
| 48 | +###### June 2014 - August 2014. Bristol, UK. |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +Developed mathematical techniques for modelling first passage processes used in Mathematical Ecology. |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +### Robotics Engineer | Novi Systems |
| 53 | +###### March 2012, June 2012. Dulverton, Devon, UK |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +Using ladder logic, my main task was to program the controller for a new product being created by Novi Systems. The product was an airflow controller used for medical inhaler testing. |
| 56 | + |
| 57 | +As well as programming the controller, I helped with the design for this new product, including modelling the pressure in the system, helping design the circuits, the sourcing of its components, wiring and construction |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +## Education |
| 60 | +### Bristol University, The University of Hong Kong | MENG in Engineering Mathematics |
| 61 | +###### Grad. July 2015 | Upper Second Class |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +My degree had a heavy focus on the mathematical modelling process. For my dissertation, I created a mathematical model relating car usage in the UK to a data set containing MOT test results over a five year period. I spent my third year studying in Hong Kong. |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +Among the more CS-flavour modules I took were: dynamics of networks; control theory: pattern recognition; neural networks; discreet mathematics; robotic systems. |
| 66 | + |
| 67 | +With coding modules in: c; c++; java; haskell. Alongside my studies I spent time learning C# and JavaScript. |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +### Exeter School | A-LEVELS |
| 70 | +Mathematics A\*, Further Mathematics A\*, Physics A, English Literature C (AS), Extended Project (AS-Equiv) A. |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +### Awards |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | + - 2013: Studentship in recognition of outstanding grades |
| 75 | + - 2011: Gold Award, UKMT Senior Maths Challenge |
| 76 | + - 2009: Ogden Trust scholarship at Exeter School. |
| 77 | + |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +Github: https://github.com/des-des |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eoindesmondmccarthy |
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