Bad Dinosaur
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Jan 07, 2021
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2 minute read
Chris has joined the team as a developer. Before starting at Bad Dinosaur, Chris worked at ShareIn, a customisable investment platform that enables you to raise funds directly from your network of investors. ShareIn are based in CodeBase, where Bad Dinosaur started out! We gave Chris a quick grilling to get to know him a bit better:
It looked really interesting to make apps from scratch, rather than focusing solely on one just project. The culture seems really nice too, and I’m really looking forward to getting back into the office so I can make the most of the working environment.
I left uni during the height of the financial crisis, so I went looking for some stability. I joined the civil service with vague aspirations to work my way up, but nine years later I was a bit bored, my skills weren’t being used and I felt things weren't really going anywhere. I started to dabble in coding in my spare time and eventually I decided to go back to uni, studying a masters in computing at Napier.
It’s tricky in some ways but I have worked remotely before so I know the script. Before my computing masters I would collaborate with random people on projects who were based all over - including the USA and Czech Republic. We would try and build a game together in a two week sprint, using Discord and trying to organize across multiple time zones. Collaborating using zoom and standups in one time zone is a lot easier!
I occasionally go outside (when we are allowed to) hill walking, and I like composing music. I play the keyboard, but you don’t need to be great at a musical instrument to compose music, you can just bring together libraries of samples of instruments and you can create all sorts of interesting effects.
Ocarina of Time - although Breath of the Wild is pretty magical too. I’ve heard about the lunchtime Mario Kart tournaments that went on in the office before lockdown. I'm looking forward to getting involved in those, just all depends who gets the blue shell...
The Hydrogen Sonata, it’s the last one Iain Banks wrote before he died.
Some small village in Tuscany, in the arse end of nowhere.
I’ve never actually been to T in the Park and I have no excuse for that so I reckon that needs to be remedied.
Pachycephalosaurus, it’s the bone-headed one that just headbutts everyone. My nephew really likes them so I’m fond of them too.
Both sound like a total nightmare but I’ll have to go with itchy feet.
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