Hi. My name is Jamie and I am a full-stack web developer from Wales. Over the past 5 years, I have put my Modern Languages degree to good use by living and working as an English, French and Spanish teacher in Vietnam. But a funny thing happened. I was thinking about what's next for me; whether I would return to the UK and what I could do there. So, I started to seriously explore my interests.

Interested in journalism, I created a documentary about the lunar new year celebration in Vietnam, Eating Tet. Before that, I had never picked up a camera. Then, I explored careers in TV production but realised it wasn't for me. And then, I started taking CS50, a computer science course run by Harvard University on Edx. When I woke up at 3am excited because a solution for my blur photo filter in C came to me, I realised I had found a passion.

Fast-forward to now, and I've completed CS50, countless Udemy and Youtube courses, I've finished the majority of the Odin Project and I volunteer as a Python teacher. Now, I am laser-focused on achieving my first entry position into the world of web development. It's a little daunting and intimidating switching careers with no formal education background in Computer Science. However, I strongly believe the soft skills achieved through my career and experiences so far, as well as the projects I've highlighted below, emphasise that I am ready and able to apply myself well in this career.

They say that learning a foreign language is like training your brain to be more like a computer. And development is just the opposite; training the computer to be more like my brain.