Chadrak Holondo

Recent graduate with commercial experience in full stack software development within various industries, such as financial services and real estate, with proven success as reflected in performance reviews and references. Passionate and eager to learn, with a keen interest in software development having undertaken a technical boot-camp and training programme in my personal time to upskill and gain further knowledge.

Trainee Software Developer, Capita | Contract
Nov 2022 – Feb 2023
- Completed software development training programme with an emphasis on technical knowledge and developing essential and applicable skills to excel as a Software Engineer, covering the entire Software Development Life Cycle
- Writing clean code with SOLID principles
- Functional and object-oriented programming with Java, C# and JavaScript
- Building applications with an MVC architecture using .NET and  Spring Boot
- Test Driven Development approach to writing code with Junit and NUnit
- Practising problem solving and critical thinking using data structures and algorithms
- Data access and database design with Microsoft SQL Server
- Working to a deadline, completing projects to apply the taught content

Junior Software Engineer, BGC Partners | Internship
Jul 2022 – Sep 2022
- Developing post-trade management applications which handle live trade data (Java, React)
- Developed applications in a microservices architecture in an agile development team
- Designed and presented prototypes based on a diverse set of feature and business requirements for managers and shareholders (Figma, Adobe CC)
- Active participant in all aspects of the SDLC process – deployments, testing, code reviews and support (Docker, Jest, JUnit)

Web Developer, BriefYourMarket | Permanent
Sep 2021 – Jul 2022
- Developing internal and client web applications with React with JavaScript which consume company APIs to streamline and automate tasks and processes
- Maintaining existing applications written in C# with ASP.NET
- Communicating with clients to handle support requests and debugging client web applications
- Building bespoke HTML emails and templates with HTML and CSS
- Developing RESTful APIs and querying customer databases with SQL
- Creating UI/UX designs and prototypes using Figma
 

Upon graduating with degree in Graphic Design (BA Hons) at Nottingham Trent University, I completed a Software Development Bootcamp as a part of the government Skills Bootcamp programme as well as a training programme as a Trainee Software Developer at Capita.