Lamin Barrow Full-stack Developer

West African Senior Secondary School Leaving Certificate - SOS Hermann Gmeiner Technical High School

2004 → 2006

I graduated from high school after having specialized in science subjects in high school.

Certificate in Computer Graphic & Web Design - SOS Hermann Gmeiner Further Education

2005 → 2006

This was my introduction into the world of coding and design. I graduated from this course with a distinction.

Web Designer & Trainee Web Developer – Rhythm Ltd.

2006 → 2008

Rhythm hired me after a successful job interview and html coding test. They gave me my first job and it was a learning and exciting time in my career. I loved what I was doing and gave them my best. I use carried my work with me home sometimes and researched on my own and in turn use what I learn to make contributions on the projects we build at work.

My responsibilities and impact at Rhythm Ltd. where many, some of them are highlighted below.

• I designed user interfaces for Rhythm Ltd clients and develop their websites using ASP.net 2.0 in C# and Microsoft SQL Server as the database backend.
• I contributed to the successful design concept and implementation of the web publishing system .geographical media which powers over 200 websites both in the Gambia and international.
• I was responsible for building all the theme components used in the .geographical media.
• I was responsible for identifying and fixing web browser related issues that arise as a result of images, Javascript, CSS and HTML and embedded objects such as Flash and Silverlight.
• I did research on new emerging web trends and technologies to learn and implement on .geographical media.
• I was responsible for overseeing all activities on our web server such as health monitoring and adding new DNS entries and new websites.
• I designed and contributed to the implementation of the online tracking system used in-house to report any defects and issues found on .geographical media.
• I also provided clients with support and additional training with the .geographical media content management tool.
• I also did remote desktop Windows Server administration and gained plenty of experience with IIS, DNS entry and management of Windows Servers.
• I also was responsible for client support and I would on occasion go out to set up the POP3 emails on the client's computer to use Rhythm's mail server so that they can receive their email on their own domain name.

Founder, Lead Designer & Developer – deveSigner.

2009 → 2010

deveSigner was a website and web application design and development studio I started in 2009. It had 4 employees, but the business had to shut down due to some marketing issues as we failed to get a single client the industries we were trying to sell our services to in The Gambia.

Freelance Full Stack Web Developer – LBarrow.com.

Jan 2011 → Now

I started freelancing, starting in 2008 since then I've been designing with graphic design tools such as Photoshop and doing web development with PHP and Mysql Primarily. I also did some Windows Form Desktop apps developed using C# and now Electron. I am now into many things software development wise, but my primary stack of choice is PHP and the amazing Silverstripe framework.

I think the future looks very exciting for machine learning and artificial intelligence so I am making investments towards learning programming languages like Python and libraries in that area.