This is the first in a series of spotlights on some of the technical staff at BJSS. We'll be speaking to staff from across the business, over a virtual coffee, shooting the breeze about their background, technical interests and anything else that happens to come up. We'll write them up, put them on here and give you an insight into the types of people that work at BJSS as well as the technology and projects they've worked on.
First in the series is Ammar Haider, a software developer based in our Nottingham office, who’s been with BJSS for about 3 years.
Slightly unusually, Ammar doesn't hail from a computer science background nor maths or sciences. Instead, his educational background is a degree in Philosophy.
Software engineering wasn't even on his radar when he took up his first job after university, working at a digital marketing company in a business role rather than a technical one. It was here that he came across development for the first time, though digital analytics.
While trying to understand challenges like determining how many people truly do read an article, Ammar discovered JavaScript, and since then his interest in code has never abated.