I'm classed as a 'Microsoft Full Stack Developer'; with specialisations in Xamarin, AI and back-end development work.
Over a decade of experience in the IT industry
I have worked with a wide variety of clients from different industries as is the nature of the work that I do. I am a big believer in futurology and I think that the landscape of consumable AI and Machine learning services is going to lead to some ground-breaking industry changes in the near future. I fall under the term full-stack developer, but I personally subscribe to the T shaped model which comes from the idea that an individual can possess deep skills in a few areas as well as a broader range of shallower skills. I have been fortunate to work with some really interesting industries and business which has helped me broaden areas of certain tech stacks.
Highlights
Microsoft Stack
C#, .Net, .Net Core, ASP.Net, UWP, WPF, WinForms.
Azure
Working with micro-services in the Azure Cloud has been really interesting. Logic apps, Azure Functions, general cloud based architecture.
Xamarin
I've been working with Xamarin since before it was owned by Microsoft, it's come a long way and is my preferred method of developing cross-platform application.
Cognitive Services
Microsofts BotFramework, Decision, Vision, Speech, Search and Language APIs driven by AI and Machine Learning.
Microsoft Certified: Azure: Developer Associate (Renewed)
Accreditation: MCA
Awarding Body: Microsoft
October 2020
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals
Awarding Body: Microsoft
Exam: AI-900
April 2019
Microsoft Certified Associate: Azure
Accreditation: MCA
Awarding Body: Microsoft
April 2019
Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure
Awarding Body: Microsoft
Exam: AZ-203
May 2018
Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer: App Builder
Accreditation: MCSD
Awarding Body: Microsoft
May 2018
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate: Universal Windows Platform
Accreditation: MCSA
Awarding Body: Microsoft
May 2018
Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate
Accreditation: MCSA
Awarding Body: Microsoft
May 2018
Microsoft Certified Solutions Developer
Accreditation: MCSD
Awarding Body: Microsoft
May 2018
Programming in C#
Awarding Body: Microsoft
Exam: 70-483
September 2017
Universal Windows Platform: App Architecture and UX/UI
Awarding Body: Microsoft
Exam: 70-354
September 2017
Microsoft Certified Professional
Accreditation: MCP
Awarding Body: Microsoft
September 2017
Microsoft Certified Professional
Accreditation: MCP
Awarding Body: Microsoft
September 2017
Developing Mobile Apps
Awarding Body: Microsoft
Exam: 70-357
March 2017
Microsoft Technology Associate: Database Fundamentals
Accreditation: MTA
Awarding Body: Microsoft
March 2017
Microsoft Technology Associate: Database
Accreditation: MTA
Awarding Body: Microsoft
March 2017
Database Fundamentals
Awarding Body: Microsoft
Exam: 93-364
December 2016
Microsoft Technology Associate: Software Development Fundamentals
Accreditation: MTA
Awarding Body: Microsoft
December 2016
Microsoft Technology Associate: Software
Accreditation: MTA
Awarding Body: Microsoft
December 2016
Software Development Fundamentals
Awarding Body: Microsoft
Exam: 98-361
THE FUTURE!
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Oops, there's a filter for accreditations but no content, don't worry it's not a bug I'm working on some accreditations right now, so check back in the future to check them out.
My Current Skillset
A viusual representation of my proficiencies as they relate to each other; think of it like it's a confidence level against each technology.
Feel free to contact me in regards to pro bono work (Pro bono publico; English 'for the public good') , open source code, or any of my work that you've used.
This site was written in C# ASP.Net Core with Razor pages. It uses a mix of HTML, JavaScript and jQuery to keep the client side responsive and mobile friendly. It adopts an MVC pattern on the server side to ensure the separation of application concerns. Security is also at the heart of the design and precautions have been taken to secure from cross-site scripting attacks, protect against Injection attacks, MIME type spoofing, and ensure that where required it is using secure cookies.
On a lighter note the animations were made using photoshop and pencil2d, I am by no means a designer but I have some experience with these tools and found it enjoyable to try and bring together the light and dark modes that the site uses with the use of animation.
The parallax images are also all photographs that I have taken, with that being somewhat of a hobby I wanted to incorporate it into the portfolio site as a reflection of my character. If you are viewing this on mobile unfortunately parallax sections are slightly less supported depending on your browser so they are disabled, feel free to check it out on a desktop.
Product Name: Cuda single page portfolio
Author: Adrian Paszul
Licence: MIT
Description: Single page portfolio site layout. It needed some re-work to be more mobile friendly (minor changes here and there), but the styling was perfect.
Description: Fantastic animated hamburger icons, I really liked this set of four different animated versions, so had to use it for the mobile responsive part of this portfolio.
Description: Pencil2D is an easy, intuitive tool to make 2D hand-drawn animations. Pencil2D is open source and cross-platform. I used this to create the animated portfolio logo, it's pretty decent for a bit of open source tech.
Description: JQuery responsibe scrollable timeline, I used this for the certificate section, but I had to do some decent rework of the JQuery and It's still not quite how I like it. Great starting point through.
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