harrybaines

Harry Baines

Hello, World! 👋

$ whoami

I'm Harry, a software engineer from the UK with 5+ years of experience. I'm passionate about learning new technologies and building software that provides real value. I'm open to full-time opportunities and part-time work, feel free to give me a call and we can have a chat!

Me on my bike

Maldives September 2018

$ cat skills.txt

Languages: TypeScript, Python, Go, SQL
Frameworks: React, Next.js, Express.js, Astro, Django, Flask, FastAPI, Celery, Selenium
Databases: Postgres, MySQL, Redis, sqlite, Firebase, supabase
Tools: Git, GitHub, Docker, Heroku, Vercel, Jupyter Notebooks

$ cat hobbies.txt

When I'm not coding, you can find me:

  • Running or hitting the gym 🏃‍♂️💪
  • Playing Dead by Daylight 🎮
  • Working on a side project 👨‍💻

$ history

  • 2014: Took A-level Computing, received award for highest coursework grade
  • 2016: Began studying computer science at Lancaster University
  • 2018: Developed and sold a timesheet system to a large architecture practice
  • 2019: Completed computer science degree and began data science masters
  • 2020-2022: Worked as a hybrid Software Engineer/Data Scientist for a chemical consultancy
  • 2022-present: Scaled time management system into a complete project management system

$ ls experience/

2022 - Present
Full Stack Software Engineer - Cassidy and Ashton

Implemented a full-stack timesheet, project and leave management system using modern technologies. Supports clients, staff and project dashboards, and fee forecasting. Used by ~60 employees on a daily basis.

React
TypeScript
RTK
RTK Query
Express
Supabase
Prisma
Postgres
Docker
ChakraUI
2020 - 2022
Software Engineer / Data Scientist - Yordas Digital

Implemented a full-stack SDS authoring app in Django, supervised two student internship projects, developed developer template repos and automation scripts, and deployed ML-based time series forecasting models.

Django
Flask
Celery
Selenium
Docker
Redis
Jupyter Notebooks
Streamlit
2020
Data Scientist Internship - Yordas Digital

Implemented and deployed a smart search engine using NLP techniques to search across a database of 20K+ complex chemical phrases.

Python
NLTK
sklearn
scipy
MySql
Sqlalchemy
Numpy
Pandas
Flask
gunicorn
seaborn
2018 - 2020
Part-Time Software Engineer - Cassidy and Ashton

Designed, developed and deployed a full-stack timesheet web app from scratch, eliminating the need for paper timesheets.

React
Redux
Express
Postgres
Firebase
Heroku
Python
Git/GitHub