Henry Russell


Work History

Advanced Software Engineer | Zühlke, London | 2022 - Current

As a Professional Consultant, developed custom software solutions for various clients, including a web application for Handelsbanken, a Swedish bank. The web application helps clients who want to apply for a mortgage by collecting their financial information in a simplified and user-friendly way, used skills in typescript react to create the web interface for this project.

Computer Science Teacher | Academic Tutors Surrey | 2022-2024

A level computer science tuition for a homeschooled student as solo teacher.

Software Engineer Internship | Royal Holloway | Summer 2021

Lead developer, student module selection web application interfacing with college systems.

Computer Science Teaching Assistant | Royal Holloway | 2020-2021

Remote and in person support during lab sessions for first year modules and marking.

Student Ambassador | Royal Holloway | 2019-2020

Open days, Campus Tours, Carpark management, and roles in the computer science department.

Math and English Tutor | Kumon - Frimley, England | 2017-2019

Tutored up to A level students in Math's and English, helped them to make corrections, documented progression.


Education


MSc Software Systems Engineering

Achieved a Distinction classification from UCL (2021-2022) in software systems engineering, with a focus on distributed systems, requirements engineering, and software development practices.

Conducted a research project in collaboration with Intel and Microsoft, developing a coding plugin for Visual Studio that enables touchless computing using gestures as a mouse pointer for coding.

BSc Computer Science (Software Engineering)

First Class Honors, Royal Holloway University of London (2018-2021), grade average of 80%.

Academic awards:

  • Computer Science Prize for outstanding final year project (2021)
  • Best Second Year Software Engineering Group Project (2020)
  • Outstanding academic performance - 1 of 17 students who scored over 80% (2019)

A Levels & GCSE

  • Computer Science (A), EPQ (A), Psychology (A), Maths (B)
  • 14 GCSE's A-B. A in Electronics. A's in Computing, Maths, English literature, language, and sciences

Skills


    Front-end Web:
  • Custom portfolio website for an actress client.
  • Electron JS design thinking application for IBM
  • Birthday cards and similar for friends
  • Carpark management system in React.
  • Various HTML5 canvas games.
    • Full-stack Web:
  • Actress portfolio with continuous deployment (http://www.wendyannedaloz.com) SEO Ranked on the first page google search.
  • Multiplayer, concurrent game environment based around microservices and the cloud.
  • React asset management dashboard with python API
  • Module Selection system for students at Royal Holloway
    Java:
  • JavaFX chess application with SQL-lite database for storing game history.
  • Lego robot to scan an area for “landmines”, collect them and return them to a checkpoint.
  • Test driven graphical and command line calculator using observer, factory, visitor and MVC design patterns.
    • Cloud and Deployment:
  • 2024 AWS Certified Associate Solutions architect
  • VPS hosting with AWS, Azure and Google compute.
  • Linux (desktop and bash)
  • Docker and Docker compose for the deployment of an asset management system on Heroku. Environmental variables used for ports and admin password.
  • Microservices and container orchestration.

Additional Skills and Achievements

  • AWS certified (associate) solutions architect (2024)
  • IBM certified design thinking (2022)
  • Google FooBar level 3 (2020).
  • LinkedIn JavaScript Assessment (2020).
  • Extracurricular club "programming polyglots", each week a new programming language was taught. (2017 - 2018)
  • Excellent understanding of hardware and software.
  • Skilled in Microsoft office; PowerPoint and Excel with ECDL cert. (pre 2018).
  • Public speaking in mock student elections and mock United Nations (pre 2018).
  • Volunteering: Leader Japanese club and the Chess club (2017 - 2018).
  • Student ambassador; Air cadet and Bronze DofE (pre 2018).

Hobbies and Interests

Photography, Web Development, Listening to Podcasts, Psychology, Chess and strategic computer games, Japanese culture,