Email: <firstname>sykes<lastname>@gmail.com
Code: github.com/filwisher
Twitter: twitter.com/filwisher
Special interests in distributed systems (data structures and algorithms, edge computing), networking (peer-to-peer protocols, gossip/epidemic protocols, ad-hoc networks), and functional programming.
Peer-led coding academy with a focus on web development. Curriculum included: version control (Git), automated testing, agile practices, data visualization (D3.js), and web-server programming (Node.js).
Dissertation Project: "Constructing Mythologies: The Contemporary Aesthetics of Female Sexualization in Western Popular Music". Special interests in aesthetics (phenomenological, post-structuralist, feminist) and composition (indeterminate, algorithmic, cellular-automata). Modules included: Composition, Aesthetics and Criticism, Music Technology.
A Levels: Philosophy (A), Mathematics (B), Music (C)
GCSEs: 2 A*, 5 A, 3 B
Founding member of an award-winning web development cooperative. Researching new and emerging technologies. Planning project scope and ensuring delivery. Designing project architecture and implementation. Teaching groups of 16 students how to build web-based applications.
Lead developer in a 4-person team contracted by Camden Council to build a service for finding local amenities and live information about street works. Researched relevant technologies and planned implementation. Managed responsibilities of team of 4 other developers. Ensured project delivery successfully and on schedule (3 months).
Helped start a cooperative with the aims of providing free, full-time coding courses and helping course graduates to find employment as web developers. Planned and delivered course curriculum. Researched and adapted the structure of the organization over time. Awarded Young Cooperator?s Prize for innovation. Featured in The Observer, Forbes, and Computer Weekly.
Awarded to Founders & Coders for our innovation and commitment to cooperative values.
Awarded for notable achievement in Music, for graduating with the highest grade in the year.