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Multilingual Greeting

🎭 Drama Graduate → 📈 Equities Trader → 👨🏻‍💻 Full-Stack Developer


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  • Currently: Open to new opportunities and collaboration
  • I'm a very active and motivated software developer, based in Birmingham, UK 🇬🇧
  • Bootcamp graduate from Northcoders (March–June 2025)
  • Former equities trader and drama graduate turned passionate coder
  • Love solving problems, building useful tools, and I'm not afraid of learning new tech
  • Always open to collaboration or a chat - feel free to connect!



📁 Featured Projects

🗞️ Daily Spews

A Reddit-style news app

  • Backend: RESTful API with Express.js & PostgreSQL
  • Frontend: React, CSS, responsive design
  • Features: User authentication, voting system, comment threads, post articles
  • 🔗 Live Demo | Backend Repo | Frontend Repo

🔍 FoundIt

Collaborative lost & found web application



🛠️ Tech Stack & Tools


💻 Languages & Frameworks

JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, React, Next.js, Node.js, Express, Tailwind CSS



🗃️ Databases & Testing

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Jest



🔧 Tools & Development

Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, VS Code



☁️ Deployment & API Tools

Netlify, Supabase, Vercel, Postman



📊 GitHub Stats


Kevin's GitHub Stats

Kevin's GitHub Streak

Kevin's Top Languages



📫 Let's Connect!


I'm always interested in connecting with fellow developers, discussing new technologies, or exploring collaboration opportunities. Whether you want to chat about code, share project ideas, or you're simply curious about any of my work and would like to say "hi" - I'd love to hear from you!



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  1. daily-spews-backend daily-spews-backend Public

    Modern RESTful API for Daily Spews, a satirical news platform with Reddit-style functionality. Built with Node.js, Express, PostgreSQL & Supabase. Features JWT authentication, file uploads, securit…

    JavaScript

  2. daily-spews-frontend daily-spews-frontend Public

    React 19 frontend for Daily Spews, a satirical news platform with Reddit-style functionality. Features optimistic UI updates, full accessibility, mobile-first design, image cropping, infinite scrol…

    JavaScript

  3. Team-423/foundit-backend Team-423/foundit-backend Public

    The backend for FoundIt, a lost and found item web application. Tech stack includes: Node.js, Express, MongoDB and Mongoose.

    JavaScript 1 2

  4. Team-423/foundit-frontend Team-423/foundit-frontend Public

    This front-end project utilises the back-end found-it server to display a lost and found webpage, accessing information like items and users from the database. This website allows users to create a…

    TypeScript 1 2

  5. retro-pokedex retro-pokedex Public

    A React-based app that emulates the classic Pokemon player experience of exploring a Pokédex - styled in a manner that is reminiscent of an old-school Game Boy interface.

    JavaScript

  6. crypto-derivs-trade-tracker crypto-derivs-trade-tracker Public

    Production-ready crypto derivatives trading system backend built with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and Redis

    Python 1