Joel Dorrington
(514) 601-1122
joel.dorrington0@gmail.com
(514) 601-1122
joel.dorrington0@gmail.com
I’m an Australian currently living and working in Montreal, Canada, looking for work as a junior web developer. My work permit is valid until December 2019 with the option of extension.
I’m an independant thinker who brings solutions, not problems. I take personal responsibility for identifying and filling my own knowledge and skill gaps, and delivering results that exceed expectations. You won’t have to hold my hand everyday in the office.
I’ve taught myself to use multiple coding languages. I spend a lot of my time outside my full time job working on personal projects to develop my app building experience using the MEAN stack, and now the LAMP stack.
I make a concerted effort to continually keep up to date with best practices and gain experience with new languages and technologies.
I’d be best suited to developing user interfaces for web apps, online stores and CMS’s under the direction of designers and engineers. However I’m most confident using the whole MEAN stack and beleive I could be trusted to work as an assistant to a full-stack developer in that environment.
HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Angular.
Node.js/Express, Python, PHP, WordPress, MongoDB, SQL, Git.
React.js, Laravel, Ruby on Rails.
I’m also interested in machine learning technologies.
I graduated highschool in Armadale, Western Australia, deciding against attending university. I would have decided differently if a computer science class were offered at my school. 4 years, and several menial jobs later, I had my first experience with web development. My dear friend and former employer discovered a new business opportunity for which he needed a website.
I was put to the task of helping him get what we needed from the developer, and I kind of took the reigns and finished it myself using Elegant Theme’s Divi drag-and-drop wordpress theme.
The rest is history. Since then my skills and knowledge in web development and computer science has continued to exponentially.
Around the same time, I’d begun a long-distance relationship with a long-time online Canadian friend of mine – That’s her in the monkey photo. One year later, I’d quit smoking and saved my pennies to make the 30-hour flight to Montreal. For 6 and a half weeks I got a feel for life in Canada with her. Lucky me, my first time was in the middle of December…
Despite the intense cold it went well. After a painful goodbye and another long flight home, I made arrangements to immigrate to Canada. I arrived October 2017 with a 2 year working holiday permit which commenced December 15th 2017. I’ll apply for permanent residency before it ends.
So, here I am working a fulltime job in construction, continuing to educate myself on the side and ready for my first job in web development.
The 2 areas of technology I’m most intrigued by are AI and decentralization. I see enormous potential for individual empowerment in a world with such a crushing concentration of power.
I’m a vegan environmentalist who likes to travel and open my mind to new possibilities. I’d really like to help make a significant change to the world for the better.
When I’m not coding or diving into the tech world, I love winding down by cooking a good meal. My veganism gives me an interesting paradigm to experiment with new and interesting dishes.
Going hand in hand with cooking, my interest in cocktail mixology rounds out my kitchen skill set and pleases my friends to no end.
When I’m looking for a shot of adrenaline, snowboarding is my go-to. I haven’t been in Canada long, but a few short months after my first experience on the slopes and I’m hooked.
Having missed out on the broad education opportunities at university, I try to make up for it by reading a wide range of topics which genuinely interest me like nutrition, psychology and philosophy, and the fun stuff like marketing and business strategy.