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    \Huge \textcolor{myblue}{Faris Mektem}
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\noindent Highly skilled and motivated software developer with a passion for all things technology.

\noindent Outside of tech, I am passionate about trail running, camping, and gardening. I thrive
on getting a challenge, whether it's in or outside of the tech world. I can bring a well-rounded
and programmatic perspective to every sitation.

\noindent \faLaptop: \href{tel:07857555130}{+44 7857555130} \\
\noindent \faGlobe: \href{https://mektem.com/}{mektem.com} \\
\noindent \faLocationArrow: \href{mailto:faris@mektem.com}{faris@mektem.com}\\
\noindent \faGit:  \href{https://git.mektem.com/}{git.mektem.com}

\section*{\textcolor{myblue}{Technical Skills}}

React, Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, RxJS, REST \\
Java, C++, Python, PHP, Lua \\
Terraform, Ansible \\
PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, SQLite \\
git, zsh, *nix, vi(m), NFS/Samba \\
Agile, Scrum, Kanban

\section*{\textcolor{myblue}{Employment \& Experience}}

\subsection*{\textcolor{mybluesub}{Amadeus, London}}
\textbf{Software Development Engineer} \hfill November 2021 - Present

\noindent Working in a heavily team-based environment working to produce excellent software. Part of the “Disruption”
team which focused on dealing with flight disruption for Airlines. Required extensive functional, but also technical
knowledge.

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    \item Worked with our Airline customers to produce and validate software in order to be used on-ground at
    airports.
    \item Successfully generated back-end programming utilizing C++, with tests written in Python on Linux
    systems.
    \item Lead the development of multiple products and features to help improve the Airline community
    satisfaction.
    \item Provided new developments and bug fixes for flagship Java-based front end.
    \item Use of Angular to provide new web frontends for our Airline customers, with the use of TypeScript,
    HTML and CSS while providing a smooth and intuitive user experience.
    \item Designed and Implemented Python Unit and Sanity tests for testing functional messages received from
    customers in the EDIFACT protocol language.
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\subsection*{\textcolor{mybluesub}{University of Kent, Canterbury}}
\textbf{Homework Club Assistant} \hfill January 2020 - March 2020

\noindent Helping the first year students of Computer Science to understand topics in their revelvant modules 
and assisting with any homework assignments that they have been set.

\subsection*{\textcolor{mybluesub}{University of London Officers’ Training Corps (ULOTC), Canterbury}}
\textbf{Officer Cadet – A Company} \hfill October 2019 - March 2020

\noindent Working in a heavily team-based and strict environment for the British Armed Forces required self-discipline and
the ability to support other members. There was a strong emphasis on working as a team and not as an
individual, so I significantly enhanced my collaboration and teamwork skills.

\subsection*{\textcolor{mybluesub}{Burberry (Internship), London}}
\textbf{Architecture Department} \hfill July 2017

\noindent Selected to work as an intern for Burberry’s first work experience program at the Burberry Headquarters in
London. This involved shadowing members of the architecture team to understand what goes into developing
new stores for Burberry in places around the world. I also had the opportunity to work with a team to deliver a
presentation about a potentially new line of clothing to staff at Burberry and gained valuable insight into the
challenges that face a busy team of this global brand.

\section*{\textcolor{myblue}{Education}}

\subsection*{\textcolor{mybluesub}{BSc Computer Science}}
\textbf{University of Kent} \hfill September 2018 - July 2021

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\section*{\textcolor{myblue}{Interests \& Hobbies}}

In a lot of my spare time I try to learn more about some of the different technologies that interest me a lot, in
particular I find Linux and UNIX the whole ecosystem around that very interesting so I spend a lot of time
dabbling around with that, so for example, I have a raspberry pi that I use a pseudo-home server, I have a file
server on there and I use PiHole to block advertisements on my network, and I have some automation tasks that
run on the files on the file server. In terms of coding I often work on random personal projects. For example, I
essentially run my own desktop environment, I run a heavily modified version of suckless dwm, It is related to
linux as well but it is written in C, so I get some experience with that when I use it. It’s always fun to tinker around
with it since you get to see the results quite quickly and it’s something that I work with everyday.

\section*{\textcolor{myblue}{References}}
Available upon request.

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