About

Tjena!
Hvad så?
Hey!
Ca va?
Kushɛ!
Wie gehts?

I'm Oliver - a web and mobile developer currently helping solve the global packaging problem as a Senior Software Developer at LivingPackets in Berlin.

Prior to moving to Berlin I was embedded within ther Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation in Sierra Leone, on secondment by the Tony Blair Insitute for Global Chage.

I previously also worked with clients such as BCC, Amazon and Nestle at the digital innovation consultancy Hi Mum! Said Dad in London, and I have a first-class Bachelor and Master of Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Tools

In my day to day work, I use a number of tools to design, build and deploy useful products for clients. These include:

• Modern React with hooks to create SPAs for the web.
  
  
• Typescript - once you go TS, you don't go back...
  
  
• Zustand is my go-to state management library, but I have worked with Redux and self-created React Context solutions as well.
  
  
• Ionic React and React Native for native application development.
  
  
• Django and Flask for server-rendered web applications, and Django REST Framework to provide APIs for SPAs to consume.
  
  
• Postgresql and MySQL for database operations.
  
  
• Heroku, Git and AWS for deployment and DevOps
  
  
• Figma to create rapid UX/UI prototypes.

What I do for fun (other than code...)

• Cycling 🚴🏽 - I'm a part of Rapha Cycling Club in Berlin
  
  
• Running 🏃 - I hope to do at least one marathon a year!
  
  
• Bouldering 🧗‍♂️ - I started doing this in Sierra Leone, and I'm hooked!
  
  
• Listening to Podcasts - My personal favourites atm are SyntaxFM and the React Podcast