About me

I was born in London 🇬🇧 but now live in Perth 🇦🇺, and I'm currently working full time as a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services, where I previously interned. Up until December 2024, I studied Computer Science, Finance, and Data Science at UWA, when I finally earnt my Bachelor of Science, with two majors and a minor.

You can find me on GitHub here and on LinkedIn here.

Hobbies

My main hobby is playing chess - if you are interested feel free to check out my current rating. I am entirely self taught. Yes, my chess.com username is just charles, something I am quite proud of owning. Outside of chess I spend my time reading, listening to music, language learning (poorly), travelling (when I can), and hanging out with my dog Boris, pictured above.

Projects

Most of my projects are done to learn new skills, as I personally learn best by doing things instead of reading about them or watching videos. You may also notice that this section is quite sparse, which can be attributed to most of my work being done at my job, but I do still try to build some fun things on the side when I can.

This website

A pet project which originally was hosted on a linux webserver in the effort of teaching myself how to maintain a site and get comfortable with technologies such as SSL, DNS, and EC2. I've since moved it to Cloudflare Pages.

Learn more here.

ipster

A CLI application I wrote in Go. The aim was to target a pain point in my workflow, helping to semi-automate everyday tasks. Thanks to the cobra framework, it's quite robust!

Learn more here.

Other stuff

Certs

Study Details

Bachelor of Science, BSc., UWA

Computer Science (Major)
Finance (Major)
Data Science (Minor)

Previously I studied at Perth Modern School

Languages I use

Go
C
Java
Python
R