Kate Westbrook

This absolutely made my YEAR: a nomination for the @makersacademy Women In Software awards!! How incredible to see my hard work celebrated after just a few months in this industry. Big thanks to @GA_London for giving me the launch and @PlanesStudio for the opportunity to grow ✨

Just finished my first week as a professional software engineer! Felt so welcomed and supported by the @PlanesStudio team, excited about working in react native and typescript for the first time and super happy I made the decision to jump into the word of tech! #WomenWhoCode

STOKED to say I am joining the @PlanesStudio team as an Associate Full Stack Developer! In 5 months I have totally switched career & found a complete passion for code. Super excited to be joining an amazing, friendly, supportive team building digital products for cool people ❤️

Excited to share my software engineer/learning specialist portfolio here! What an incredible few months I have had learning with the @GA @GA_London team and then joining them on their teaching staff! Now I’m looking for my next role as a software engineer katewestbrook.com

Also, incredibly happy to say that, having finished the @GA @GA_London Software Engineering Immersive course last week, they have asked me to join the team as a teaching assistant whilst I look for my first software developer job!

Going to save the rest of my code updates for when I finish my portfolio website so I can show you some explorable full stack code projects. For the moment, please enjoy my code notes, which are a teacher dream!#MERN #Django #Python #PostgreSQL #React 💪

Anyone else hear that caller in quote on radio 5 about teachers “moaning” about their situation during lockdown and getting “6 week holidays”. Who is that person and may I have a quiet word please…

I also rebuilt my Rock Paper Scissors game that I had made as my admissions project to @GA_London as a React app using bootstrap to make it look great. It was so cool to be able to build this in a few hours, when I first made the vanilla JavaScript app it took a week!

And closer to home, here’s a (responsive of course) tube update app I built from scratch in React, using the @TfL tube update API, which has conditional colour codes into the CSS dependent on tube status #WomenWhoCode #womeninSTEM #JuniorDeveloper cloud.tfl.gov.uk/TrackerNet/…

Here are some examples of how I used APIs to build mini React.js apps - showing off filtering functions with this site that pulls from the Rest Countries API restcountries.com