Hi, I‘m Sam Robbins

Senior Software Engineer at UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing

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Jobs

Senior Software EngineerUK National Innovation Centre for AgeingJuly 2023 - Present
Software DeveloperCybSafeAug 2021 - July 2023
Software Developer ContractorPostapplyJul 2021 - Oct 2022
Lab DemonstratorDurham UniversityOct 2020 - Mar 2021
Summer InternGlobal Cyber AllianceJul 2020 - Sep 2020

For more details, check out my CV

Writing

Migration From jQuery to Next.js: A GuideSmashing Magazine - August 2022
A beginner’s guide to JSON, the data format for the internetStack Overflow - June 2022
Adding form submissions to Notion using Next.js and NetlifyNetlify - March 2022
Write A Plugin For Tailwind CSSEgghead - April 2021

Timeline

  • Voluteered at DurHack 2022.2

    November 2022

    Helped with set up, coding problems, food and judging

  • Attended State of the Browser

    October 2022

    A conference about web standards

  • Attended React Advanced

    October 2022

    Learnt about effectively using React

  • Attended CyberUK 2022

    May 2022

    A government run cyber security event focusing on cyber security for the whole of society

  • Volunteered at Durhack 2022

    February 2022

    Helped with setting up, food, judging and packing up

  • Prize winner in Cloudflare Developer Challenge

    December 2021

    Created a train timetable project using workers and pages

  • Graduated from Durham University

    July 2021

    Graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in BSc Computer Science

  • Gave an Introduction to Git talk at DurHack 2020

    November 2020

    Covered how to use Git, GitHub and GitKraken

  • Winner at Magic Hackathon

    November 2020

    Created a website which allows for users to create a CV and have it published

  • Phase 1 Winner of the GNOME Community Engagement Challenge

    July 2020

    Wrote a proposal for a website to teach people how to get started contributing to open source

  • Won 3rd Place Security at Auth0 Hackathon

    July 2020

    Built a website to make it easier to add DMARC to domains hosted on Vercel

  • Achieved the Azure Fundamentals Certification

    June 2020

    Learned about the basics of setting up an application on Microsoft Azure

  • Won Most Creative Hack at Oxford Digithon

    June 2020

    Created a Firefox browser extension designed to make you less productive

  • Finalists and best use of MongoDB at DurHack 2019

    November 2019

    Built a website to help people with dementia in a variety of tasks such as scheduling and money

  • Attended init.g

    November 2019

    Learned about a range of Cybersecurity topics including Fuzzing, Binary Exploits and Reverse Engineering

  • Attended CyberUK 2019

    April 2019

    Learned about the current Cybersecurity landscape and met with companies working in cyber

  • Won Funniest Hack at DurHack 2018

    November 2018

    Created a Discord chatbot that interfaces with a range of APIs