2022 is a year of growth for the Sitekit team! Please meet Ryan, our newest Senior Developer who joined the Sitekit team back in May and managed to get super busy with projects and getting to know Sitekit as a business. We spoke to Ryan about his background, things he loves, and a piece of advice for up-and-coming developers.
I’m based in Herefordshire, which is very pretty but a little far away from the Isle of Skye office so it’s a good job that Sitekit is a remote company! Prior to joining Sitekit, I’d worked for a very small company for the last 10 years, in time and cost management software. I started there as an apprentice and gradually worked my way up the ladder.
Live music, cooking, adventures, and socialising!
Sitekit’s great because it’s small enough to care, but big enough that it’s involved in exciting conversations and projects – it also attracts great people to work with. I accepted Sitekit’s offer because they made me feel like it was the right decision for me and that I’d get the support I needed to progress in my career. I’m pleased to say I do feel supported, and I really enjoy working here – I finish nearly every day having learned something new. The best thing about working here is knowing that the project I’m working on will make a massive difference to the NHS.
If I think back to when I had just started it would be don’t give up. I think you have to change your mindset to understand how it works and when it “clicks” it’ll all make sense. Practice reading other people’s software and figuring out how it works, and then you’ll learn to write it by an almost osmosis process.
At the moment, I feel that I’m the most junior of all the senior developers so it would be good if I could feel less like that over the next couple of years. Following that, it would be great to have a go at the architectural side of things
Canada – it’s got a bit of everything. Hot in the summer, snow in the winter, amazing scenery. It just looks like a really nice place to live!
A pilot, it’d be like going on holiday every few days!
Haha, too long! Do you really work in IT if you don’t live on your computer?
Love a toastie!
There’s no better feeling than an early finish!
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