• I studied Computer Science at Riga Technical University, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in 2006 and a Master's degree in 2008.
• I worked as a system analyst in various projects between 2008 and 2013.
• I started working in fintech in 2014, and have since worked in customer support, implementations and data analysis roles. I have always done very technical work.
• I moved to the UK following a promotion in 2019 because my employer wanted me to work closer with the development team (Oxford Boyz were awesome and I miss them).
• In 2023 I got hired into an application support role at a company where the support team management had a long-standing conflicts with the development team. I found myself agreeing with the development team too often. When this employment abruptly ended, it was clear that I have outgrown support roles and need to transition into development.
• I had done some coding here and there over the years, but was never given the title. Furthermore, all of my work was proprietary - it belongs to my former employers and I am not legally allowed to show it to anyone, even to prove that I am able to code.
• I have been building out my GitHub portfolio since July 2023 and have taken several programming courses to do so, including Harvard's CS50 Python and CS50 Web, and Software Engineering Bootcamp by Northcoders.

All of the below I have worked with at some point to varying degree of proficiency. Please inquiry if you need to know any specifics.

VS Code	git	Jira	Confluence	Trello	Power Automate Desktop	Power BI	Grafana	MS Excel

N.B. The below statistics only reflect time spent in VS Code.