Hi there, I'm Josh Creek 👋

I’m a Computer Science educator and Software Engineer specializing in building full stack Web Applications.

For the frontend I love building reactive web applications using Sveltekit, or Vue.js & ASP.NET Core (MVC / Razor Pages). As for the backend, I work with ASP.NET Core WebAPIs and Node.js. I am a proponent of Docker containerisation and virtualisation, as well as automated testing within CI/CD workflows. For cloud computing my service of choice is Azure but I like AWS too.

My degree in English (with Creative Writing modules) led me to a deep appreciation for Prompt Engineering.

My roots as a Teach First Ambassador drive me to share knowledge freely and to encourage others to do the same.

💻 Hackathons

Winner of Microsoft's Semantic Kernel Hackathon #1 (August 2023) 'Most Fun and Creative' category.
- Project: Pokemon Adventure ChatGPT Plugin
- A ChatGPT plugin that allows the user to play an interactive Pokemon adventure game, taking actions in a 'choose your own adventure' style text-based adventure story.
- Repo
- Microsoft Interview
Finalist of Microsoft's Semantic Kernel Hackathon #2 (December 2023).
- Project: Interactive History Explorer ChatGPT Plugin
- An interactive plugin that uses SK and GPT to create personalised, immersive journeys through different historical eras, complete with interactive dialogues and historical trivia.
- Repo

👨‍🏫 A Little About Me

📜 I'm a fully-qualified teacher and taught Computer Science in inner-London in schools in challenging circumstances.
🔭 I’m currently working on small web applications to save teachers time and effort and improve quality of teaching and assessing in the classroom.
🌱 I’m currently learning how to train reinforcement learning models.
👯 I’m looking to collaborate on my open source projects.
💬 Ask me about tackling educational inequality, launching a tech startup (especially if you're a student), Discord bots, home labs/servers or about modern web app development.
📫 How to reach me: Send me a DM on Twitter or LinkedIn - you can find them by clicking the buttons above.
😄 Pronouns: He/Him
⚡ Fun fact: I used to be ranked in the top 5% of players worldwide for Rocket League...but most of my friends were top 2% 🤦‍♂️

🚀 Recent Projects

🌀 SelectionWheel: A free web app with a fun and simple selection wheel. Enter a list of names to shuffle them, with a spinning wheel animation.
- Built using Typescript and Webpack.
🃏 EstimationPoker: A free web app to allow scrum teams to easily perform estimations quickly and without unnecessary effort.
- Built using SvelteKit and Node.js.
🌐 Sarpy: A reinforcement learning bot for Rocket League.
- Built using Python, Stable Baselines 3 and RlGym.
🧐 WhoAtX: A tool for organisations and businesses to use internally, to help them find the right person to talk to about a particular topic, and to equip them to best communicate with them. In terms of naming, 'X' is your organisation or business. For example, a business called 'Acme' would call this tool 'Who At Acme?'.
- Built using ASP.Net and the Microsoft Semantic Kernel.

💻 My Current Open Source Projects

I like to share my knowledge freely, and when I have an idea for a project that might be useful to others I make it open source.

📺 YouTubeChannelDownloader: A docker container (can also be run as a Windows console app) to download all videos from a YouTube channel in the highest quality available, and move them via SFTP to another device for processing. This is ideal for Plex.
- Built as a Dotnet Core console application and Dockerised to run on any host OS. Once fully complete it will be able to be run directly from an image on Docker Hub.
📁 Creek.FileRepository: An easy way to hook up various file storage mechanisms, following the repository pattern with a factory. For example, SFTP.
- Built as a Dotnet Standard 2.0 library to be used in others' projects as a NuGet package.
🦥 Creek.HelpfulExtensions: A package containing helpful extensions to either save time or cognitive load.
- Built as a Dotnet Standard 2.0 library to be used in others' projects as a NuGet package.
🦾 MupBot: An open source Discord bot for helping coders gain experience working on open source projects.
- Built as a Node.js application using Discord.js with Docker support.
🥇 and several other repositories that can be found at the Repositories link above.

📙 Selected Blog Posts

Trivia

📝 I blog here: www.jcreek.co.uk
📫 Follow me on Twitter @jcreek
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👨‍💼 Long Term Career Aim - To run my own education software house 3 days a week, teaching Computer Science the other 2 days a week and inspiring the next generation of coders.

Professional Skills