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Looking for a software developer role in London. Passionate about OOP, TDD, XP and Agile.

Xin Wang

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I'm a former fashion subeditor and project manager who taught herself basic HTML, CSS, Javascript and Python before joining Makers Academy. I'm currently looking for a software engineering role in a company that values individuality and variety to develop my skills further.

Skills

Problem solving

To reduce repetitive manual work and streamline working processes, I created two projects while working in Yoox Net-A-Porter's Product Editorial team:

• Size & Fit translation generator: SiFi works with a VLOOKUP formula. For each sentence entered in the tool, it scans the English list in the required Database and provides the corresponding translation instantly.

• Audit crawler: Audit crawler extracts complete structured data from Net-A-Porter's Designer Landing Page and store the Product No., English Product Description and Chinese Product Description in a CSV file to be used in auditing. Previously, team members need to manually copy and paste.

Project management

I initiated, planned and executed several projects both in The Lingoes and Yoox Net-A-Porter, which streamlined the localisation workflow and increased the team's productivity.

In my final project, I introduced Trello to the team to help manage our daily tasks. It helped us to both break down the tasks into small steps and also improved our productivity.

Quick learner

Since I started learning coding, I have always been picking up new technologies quickly. As someone who is not familiar with massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), I went on to create one with my teammates within a week: mmog.

I also attended a one-day React Native course at codebar and worked on a Snapchat app clone.

Communication

I believe effective communication is really important for group work. When working on a group project, I had two team members not talking to each other, which led to them both doing the same thing. As a result, I suggested having stand-ups every day and switching roles after lunch break. This helped us to clear any misunderstandings about who is doing what and we never faced the same problem again.

For our final project, I proposed the idea of using a learning diary to keep record of what we did everyday so that everybody would be on the same page. This also helped other people to understand our development process.

Projects

Project	Timeframe	Technologies	Live
Scrambled-Jpeggs	Final Project	Swift, Xcode	link
mmog	Week 9	Ruby on rails; ActionCable; Front End: HTML/CSS, Javascript; Tested with RSpec	link
Instagram	Week 8	Framework: Ruby on Rails, Devise; Database: SQlite; Front End: HTML/CSS, Javascript; Tested with Rspec & factory_bot	link
News Summary	Week 5	Javascript, jQuery, HTML/CSS; Tested with Jasmine	n/a
Chitter	Week 4	Framework: Sinatra; Database: PostgreSQL; ORM: Datamapper; Front End: HTML/CSS; Tested with RSpec, Capybara; Encryption: Bcrypt	n/a
RockPaperScissors	Week 3	Framework: Sinatra; Programming Language: Ruby; Front End: HTML&CSS; Tested with RSpec, Capybara	n/a

Experience

YOOX Net-A-Porter Group (November 2014 to November 2017)
Product Subeditor & Translator (Chinese speaking)

• Editing Editorial and Marketing content across channels
• Ensuring high quality content and tone of voice is maintained across channels
• Working on keywords with Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) team and Adobe Analytics team to optimise onsite and offsite search results
• Liaising with Merchandising and all other teams involved in the editorial and marketing process (Content Tech, Web Production, Marketing, Customer Insight)

The Lingoes Ltd. (April 2012 to November 2014)
Project Manager

• Defining project objectives, building comprehensive work plans, aligning resources and managing issues, risks, and budget to complete a complex project

Creative Translation Ltd. (October 2011 to April 2012)
Assistant Project Manager

• Managing English to Chinese projects for clients like Virgin Atlantic

Education

Makers Academy (November 2017 to February 2018)

• Databases: PostgreSQL, SQlite
• Frameworks: Rails, Sinatra
• Languages: JavaScript, Ruby
• Methodologies: Agile/XP, BDD, TDD
• Paradigms: MVC, OOP
• Testing: Capybara, Jasmine, RSpec, Selenium-Webdriver

University of Westminster (September 2010 to October 2011)

• MA Translation and Interpreting (Merit)
• Being professionally trained to provide consecutive & simultaneous interpreting, translation, public service interpreting

Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (September 2006 to June 2010)

• Bachelor of Education (Hons)
• Bachelor of Arts (Hons)

Interests

I read everything -- classic, romantic, detective, Sci-Fi, news, both Chinese and English.