Well-Sorted.org, Heriot-Watt University · Edinburgh

Built a card-sorting research platform used by research groups across UK universities and research councils: 2,300+ participants sorting 8,200+ items.

• React, TypeScript and Next.js 14 front end with a REST API of 20+ endpoints for auth, studies and sorting workflows
• SQLite with optimistic locking, JWT auth in HTTP-only cookies, automated email through Mailjet
• D3.js dendrograms, heatmaps and treemaps backed by UPGMA hierarchical clustering
• Deployed on Railway with CI/CD

Heriot-Watt University · Edinburgh

On-call support for 500+ students in halls, from medical incidents to welfare concerns. Ran community events and acted as the link between students and university staff.

Sole trader · Edinburgh

Designed and built bespoke keyboards to client specs, including QMK/VIA firmware. Handled everything from requirements to delivery.

Heriot-Watt University · Edinburgh

Industrial Programming, Data Visualisation & Analytics, AI & Intelligent Agents, Web Programming.

Harris Academy

Including Mathematics, Computing Science, Cyber Security and Engineering. Deputy Principal's Award.

Course materials

Hands-on labs and lectures on Prompt Declaration Language for reliable LLM integrations, shipped as a docker-compose environment with an Ollama model server and Jupyter.

Masters group project

ROS 2 server that turns a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W touchscreen and joystick into TIAGo robot commands, over a UDP protocol with e-stop handshake, packet-loss detection and safety timeouts. Dockerised for both simulation and the real robot.

Data analytics coursework

D3.js dashboard with linked views and animated transitions, built to tell a story with the data.

Coursework

C# Windows Forms browser with async HTTP, tabs, history, favourites and bulk downloads.

Dissertation

Flask login that checks passwords against 900M+ known breached credentials in real time. Using Marisa-Trie and mmap cut memory use by 85% compared with a conventional approach.

Coursework

Python app for exploring usage patterns across 100k+ JSON records, with a tkinter GUI, matplotlib and Graphviz.

Concurrency coursework

Thread-safe simulation of a non-preemptive OS scheduler with priority ready queues, extrinsic monitors and ReentrantLock.