Engineer
- Django developer for 10 years creating various apps for different startups Preferred tech-stack:
- Latest release of Django + cookiecutter
- Postgres
- AWS (Zappa / EBS). Docu looks interesting.
- Favourite packages: Tables2, Crispy-Forms, WhiteNoise, WagTail, FactoryBoy, Zappa, Django-Extensions, DebugToolBar, Django-Filter, Django-HoneyPot
- Minimal javascript (intercooler.js rocks)
- Creator of research software allowing Psychologists to do crowd-powered research online (ES6)
- Enjoying Google's cross platform Flutter
- Keen Raspberry Pi and Arduino maker (strong focus of this blog)
Psychologist
- 11 first-author papers. Contributed to 80+ papers: Google Scholar.
- PhD in 2004 on ‘Multisensory Perception’ from Trinity College, Dublin.
- Postdocs, on face-perception (TCD), early-stage detection of glaucoma (Bangor), and multisensory food perception + neuroscience (fMRI; Manchester)
- Worked in industry for 5-years in the Netherlands (Unilever)
- 7-years in the startup world being involved in several startups.
- I am now Senior Engineer Psychologist at StoryFutures. I spend my time creating interactive virtual / augmented reality experiences, and assessing their audience impact via perceptual psychology.
