Welcome to my page, I'm Francesca, a Junior Software Engineer at TMB Marketing & Communications and career switcher with a backgroung in customer service including mentoring and training experience, awards for performance and production of support materials for my former employer's intranet. Additionally I managed a commercial scale support project via Google Sheets.
I'm a Cajigo 100 Women in Tech 2024 Mentee, and a Code First Girls alumna via the intensive 16 week 'CFGDegree' Software/Data Engineering bootcamp, 4 week '+Masters' Cyber Security extension and 8 week Vulnerability Research specialisation, thanks to education-only sponsorship from GCGQ kindly making this opportunity possible.
With my studies delving into security principles and vulnerabilities, secure coding practices are at the forefront of my approach. My approach to coding is led by concepts like AAA, the CIA triad, the importance of HTTPS, input validation and broadly speaking security by design to mitigate threats and protect against common vulnerabilities. Considerations of access control, salting and hashing, and the principle of least priviledge (PoLP) are just some of the many concepts I'm versed in.
I have covered a broad range of learning beyond simply languages. Comfortable with MySQL, Python with Flask, HTML, CSS and Javascript, I've also written unittests, utilised test-driven development (TDD), Git, Github, Jira, Trello, pair programming, code reviews and written assessed reports from the perspective of a security analyst, and a vulnerability researcher.
I continue to expand my learning proactively and look eagerly to a long future in this industry.
As a group of six, we finished our Code First Girls CFGDegree Summer 2024 in Software/Data Engineering by collaborating to create a customisable password generator and password manager within a month utilising MySQL, Python, Flask, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I acted as project manager and we made use of Jira, GitHub Branches, Trello and code reviews. See our results below. We made use of hashing and salting amongst other security precautions to protect the data of our web app's users.