Astrid Gealer

Hi! My name is Astrid Gealer and I am a passionate developer from the UK who has experience with full stack development.

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Experience

This is my experience when it comes to work. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me:

Citi (Software Engineer) (January 2023-2024)

My job involved writing code to help developers inside Citi.

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Krystal (Software Engineer) (July 2021-December 2022)

My job at Krystal was writing backend solutions primarily in Go. An example of my work was working on the Katapult CLI and working on Koru, our work in progress alternative to cPanel. We used a variety of technologies such as gRPC to power this in the backend, and I implemented various bits of logic between both the Go and Rails sides such as the filesystem logic.

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DigitalOcean (Contractual Software Engineer) (July 2019-July 2021)

My job was to write code for the community aspects of the DigitalOcean website. DigitalOcean is a large cloud provider that powers businesses such as Slack and GitLab. My job at DigitalOcean was writing various community tools and working on the start of their Next.js platform. These tools used a variety of frameworks such as React and Vue, and also used various different API's. An example of a set of tools I maintained at DigitalOcean is their community DNS tools. For this specific set of tools, we used Vue and the Cloudflare DNS-over-HTTPS API. This made the tool very portable and easy to insert into the legacy Rails site at the time and the more modern version later down the road.

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Education

These are the places where I have been educated and the qualifications I have got while I was there. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me:

Nailsea School

I started at Nailsea School in 2013 and graduated in 2018:

Business and Enterprise: M1

Science in the Workplace: P2

History: 3

Maths: 4

English Language: 5

English Literature: 5

Computer Science: 5

Media Studies: C

City of Bristol College

I started at City of Bristol College in 2018 and graduated in 2020:

L3 Computer Science - BTEC (Extended Certificate): Distinction* Distinction* Distinction* (D*D*D*)

Projects

These are some of the projects I have had a part in. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact me:

Auttaja

Auttaja is a moderation bot for Discord which is written in Python. I have been a member of the Auttaja development team since the 29th January 2018. In that time, I have worked on 2 major releases that have made the bot a major success. Due to our teamwork, the bot is in over 175,000 servers.

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Cyno

Cyno is a Discord bot that is written in Go with the dashboard written with the Rails framework. It offers various bits of functionality such as birthday roles, currency, minigames, and XP.

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MagicCap

MagicCap is a image/GIF/clipboard capture and file upload suite for macOS and Linux. MagicCap was created by me in mid 2018 due to the lack of good capture software on both platforms (whereas Windows has ShareX). During my time owning MagicCap, I have reviewed a lot of large changes, set up a CI so that the application can easily be built, and became extremely proficient in the Electron framework.

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