UK Government Cabinet Office Recognition Award:
Programmer pages: Github, Bitbucket.
+447956694595 | [email protected] | www.kelvinkamara.com
Hi
Here are a few samples from www.kelvinkamara.com .
- a sound app for the desktop (download)
- Marvel Comics: browse and manage your favourite comics for the desktop (download)
- Marvel Comics: browse and manage your favourite comics for the web .
Cover Letter:
Hi
As the lead web and mobile developer at Joystick, since February 2024, I created the mobile app and website for the company. In April 2025, I was then promoted to chief technical officer (CTO).
As the chief technical officer (CTO) of Joystick, I create, manage, and deploy the software solutions that Joystick offers. I oversee and contribute towards the complete technical operations for the company, including but not limited to managing programming, IT infrastructure, task management, development, team members, and product technical direction.
I achieved the UK government Cabinet Office Recognition Award at 22 years old (22/04/19) (link) (link2).
I didn't go to university.
JavaScript, SQL, Bash.
Github stats:
Pictures:
Code snippets:
Remastered Baseball PHP Reactjs App.
Add PHP Backend For Creating PDFs (Frontend Already Done).
Add Creating Pdfs in Reactjs App.
PHP Github to Bitbucket Backup Repo Updater.
NodeJS Github to Bitbucket Backup Repo Updater.
Define roles & permissions for all access user.
Test Driven Development Movies App.
Add core app completing crm-laravel-10 upgrade.
Expressjs debugging & file logs for development.
Fix variables for views after big SQL usage upgrade.
Successful admin/ authenticate after big SQL usage upgrade.
I built Premium Artist CMS Template in one week in early 2020.
Building the MRVL (15 Jun 23) desktop app (MRVL desktop) (MRVL web).
Premium templates:
The best IDEs (Integration Development Environment) in no particular order:
I am working with Visual Studio Code.
- Use TAB key to trigger emmet snippets in Vim (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34822074/vim-key-mapping-for-emmet-vim)
- Eclipse (Windows, macOs, Ubuntu Linux) (The Leading Open Platform for Professional Developers)
- Notepad++ (Windows)
- TextMate (macOs)
- Sublime Text (Windows, macOs, Ubuntu Linux) (written in C++, Python)
- vscode-install-extensions.sh
- vscode-settings.json.
Production best practices: security
Interview Prep:
- https://github.com/kkamara/playground/blob/main/javascript/descending-order/test.spec.js
- https://github.com/kkamara/playground/blob/main/javascript/template-literal/test.spec.js
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/popover
- https://phptherightway.com/
- https://github.com/kkamara/playground/tree/main/py
- https://github.com/kkamara/playground/tree/main/php
- https://github.com/kkamara/playground/blob/main/go/fibonacci/main.go
- https://github.com/kkamara/playground/blob/main/go/projectsearcher/main.go
- https://github.com/kkamara/playground/blob/main/go/wait-groups/main.go
My gists:
Principles:
Open-source projects I've contributed to:
Business cards printed:
Useful commands:
npx npkill
npx gitignore
$( pnpm bin )/react-scripts
npm cache clean --force
ctrl + r # reverse search in the terminal
# command-line history & quick cmd select
hstr
hstr clone
ps aux | grep -e Google
sudo kill -9 `pgrep oogle`netstat -ltpn
Software engineering challenges with solutions and tests:
https://github.com/kkamara/playgroundVersion control (programmer pages):
Misc:
Height: 6 foot 4 inches.
Favourite football team: Arsenal, but I stopped following football when I was a teenager.
Favourite radio: BBC Radio 1 because of its variety. The station plays loads of different types of music. You can listen to UK radio stations by downloading the Kelvin Kamara sound app.
Favourite photo: Node.js CRM 5.png.
Nationality: I have a UK passport.
I was born and raised in Lewisham, south east London. I am from Lagos, Nigeria on my father's side. I am also from Sierra Leone. I have visited Lagos, Nigeria, twice.
I use f.lux to reduce eye strain. The software is available for Windows operating system.
I used to have an alarm every day at 8pm to stop coding, to rest, and prepare for bed.
PTSD Healing (64 kbps): link.
