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willbowden/README.md

Hi, I'm Will ๐Ÿ‘‹

๐Ÿš€ About Me

I'm a penultimate-year Computer Science student with nearly a decade of programming experience, specialising in full-stack development, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems. I love tackling complex engineering problems and learning new technologies along the way.

  • ๐Ÿ’ป Strong focus on backend engineering, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure.
  • ๐ŸŒ Developed numerous full-stack applications across web, mobile, and cloud platforms.
  • ๐Ÿ”ง Experienced with Go, Python, TypeScript, and C.
  • โ˜๏ธ Worked with AWS, CloudFormation, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
  • ๐ŸŽฎ Passionate about problem solving, full-stack development, and game development.
  • ๐Ÿ“š Always learning and participating in hackathons.

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Technologies & Tools

Go Python TypeScript AWS React Svelte C Unity Haskell SQL Git

๐Ÿ“Œ Featured Projects

๐Ÿ”น Cookly

A joint venture with the industrious Xav and charismatic George.

A recipe and nutrition app developed as part of a startup.

  • ๐Ÿ“ฑ Built with React Native and Redux for mobile platforms.
  • ๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ Designed and implemented a graph database for efficient recipe storage.
  • โ˜๏ธ Deployed backend infrastructure on AWS.

Made in collaboration with my exceptional teammates Alex, Sean and Bill.

A multi-platform inventory management system built for the University of Bristol Underwater Club.

  • ๐ŸŒ Built with ReactJS, TypeScript, and Firebase.
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Secure authentication and multi-user access.
  • ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ Architected and implemented a NoSQL document-based database using Firebase.

Created in collaboration with the wonderful Blaise.

Parallel and distributed implementation of Conwayโ€™s Game of Life with a 450% performance boost.

  • โšก๏ธ Written in Go, using AWS for cloud execution.
  • ๐ŸŽฎ SDL-based visualisation of the distributed world state.
  • ๐Ÿ“„ Authored a detailed technical report analysing performance, scalability, and optimisation techniques.

๐Ÿ“ซ Get in Touch

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  1. fallingsand fallingsand Public

    A simple (and unoptimised) falling sand game written in python.

    Python

  2. gol-cw gol-cw Public

    Year 2 CSA Game Of Life Coursework

    Go

  3. hex-colour-picker hex-colour-picker Public

    https://hexcolours.glitch.me/

    JavaScript

  4. iUROP-live-speedband-tool iUROP-live-speedband-tool Public

    Web app to start live speedband data collection jobs. Based on work by @DarrenChanYuHao

    TypeScript

  5. SmartTrade SmartTrade Public

    Automated cryptocurrency trading

    Python

  6. sticky sticky Public

    A simple sticky note app built with plan JavaScript, HTML and CSS

    JavaScript