I am a career switcher from law, excited by this fresh coding challenge and all the opportunities that lie ahead.
I recently completed a 4 month coding bootcamp at Makers Academy in London where I learnt Ruby, Ruby-on-Rails, JavaScript, Python and Django. I also had exposure to back-end tech in Node.js and PostgreSQL, among others. Beyond individual tech, the course at Makers had a strong emphasis on TDD and BDD software development within a wider context of Agile and XP values, which has shaped and guided my individual learning and development as a coder.
I am now in a position to build on both my front-end and back-end experience and I am looking for a first coding role that will challenge and stretch me as both a developer and a professional.
My background is as a qualified UK lawyer with extensive experience in high tech sectors. I have spent several years in roles in private practice, in-house and government, principally focused on the practice areas of intellectual property, antitrust/competition and financial regulation (more detail below). I have a proven track record of delivering challenging workstreams in high pressure environments and I will be able to bring that experience to bear in my next role.
At this early stage in my career I have developed a general interest in the field of legaltech (and have met with and spoken to a number of individuals in the area) while also developing some more specific interests in data compliance/blockchain opportunities.
- Ruby
- JavaScript
- Python
- Ruby-on-Rails
- Django
- Rspec (+ Capybara)
- Jasmine
- Unittest/Pytest
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Datamapper
- OOP
- TDD/BDD
- Agile
- XP
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We Predicted That | https://github.com/Gleoman/we-predicted-that | Final 2 Week Team Machine Learning Project predicting Pokemon battles |
Dwell B'n'B | https://github.com/Gleoman/makers-bnb | 1 Week mid-course Team Project emulating Airb'n'b |
Chitter Challenge | https://github.com/Gleoman/chitter-challenge | Weekend Solo mid-course Challenge emulating Twitter |
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Curious and passionate about code.
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Fast, independent learner.
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Great collaborator
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OOP, TDD/BDD, Agile/XP
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Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Python, Django
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RSpec, Jasmine, Unittest, Pytest
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Nodejs, Postgres, Datamapper
- Legal Practice Course - Distinction
- Graduate Diploma in Law
- MA History - First Class Honours
Legal Adviser - Treasury Legal Advisers - Government Legal Department
Advisory position with the UK Treasury's Brexit (EU Exit) team working principally on the EU Exit Withdrawal Bill and associated issues concerning the regulation of the UK financial services sector and the UK's withdrawal from the European Union.
Associate Solicitor - Competition & Antitrust
Associate position with elite UK "Magic Circle" law firm specialising in competition and antitrust matters.
This work covered a wide range of practice areas from merger control, through behavioural investigations to commercial advice in a number of different sectors across multiple jurisdictions (UK, EU, US, China etc).
While at Allen & Overy I was also seconded to RBS where I first gained exposure to blockchain issues in advising RBS on its potential involvement in the development of a private blockchain consortium for the financial services sector. This proved to be the early major driver in my coding interests and subsequent discussions with contacts with common interests has given rise to the potential data compliance tech/blockchain opportunities briefly set out above.
Associate Solicitor - EU & Competition
Associate position with prominent UK competition practice that gave me tremendous experience early in my career, taking on major responsibilities in a small team in the delivery of advice in two major cases - the UK "pay-for-delay" Paroxetine investigation into patent litigation settlements and the UK private healthcare market investigation.
My role on the paroxetine investigation in particular gave me valuable early experience of project management and the delivery of challenging workstreams in a high pressure environment, also involving the supervision and management of more junior members' work.
Trainee Solicitor
Two year training contract at UK intellectual property boutique.
My training contract at Bristows largely concentrated on intellectual property practice areas in high technology sectors.
Over the two years, I completed the following seats - Intellectual Property Litigation, Commercial Intellectual Property, Real Estate, a secondment to Sony Playstation Europe, Commercial Disputes, and Competition.