John Collins

Background

About John Collins

Senior Software Engineer at IES Ltd. with a First Class BSc Hons in Software Engineering from the University of Stirling. I work professionally in both front and backend web development with TypeScript, React, C#(ASP.NET) and PostgreSQL. I have also worked on professional projects making use of Ruby, C/C++, the Qt framework and more. I am also comfortable using development tools like Visual Studio (and VSCode), Perforce, Git/GitHub, TFS/Azure DevOps. My primary interests and goals in Software Development are clean, maintainable code and contributing to moving towards smooth, efficient, reliable work processes for my SCRUM team.I have received several rewards during education including the 1st Place Verint Systems UK Prize for Best Performance in Software Engineering, BCS Professional Membership Prize and Top in my year in both 2nd and 3rd year. My fourth year dissertation involved General Purpose Programming with GPUs where I successfully optimised and improved a parallel model of the hippocampus using the CUDA SDK.Outside of Computing I spend a lot of time playing basketball and acted as Treasurer and a Coach during my time with the University's basketball team.