about

Fiona Galston is a full-stack web developer working as a Research Software Engineer within the team at Newcastle University. She has a background in Developmental Biology but graduated in Computer Network Technology. After graduating from Northumbria University she began her career in industry; working for a large technology organisation on projects in innovation, health and nuclear energy. Since joining the RSE team in 2019 she has kept a focus in web technologies but the subject matter has varied broadly, often being involved in socially or ethically impactful projects. She has also qualified as a Software Carpentries instructor and has taught several of their classes to PHD students and staff.

PROJECTS

  • QuOD Pathology Atlas /

    2020-2021
    • Database design and set-up to store donated organ data
    • Development of a web-based digital portal to help organise requests and allocate organ samples to authorized researchers.

  • Animating Text Newcastle / School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics

    2019-2021
    • Plan, design and develop web-based applications to display or work with text in varying forms
    • Geospatial work using leafletJS to map translations of femenist literature across Europe
    • UI/UX work to display stages of text creation and modification by authors

  • Hands on Reading / School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics

    2020
    • Front-end development of mobile-centric web-application using Angular
    • Use of HTML Canvas so users can annotate digital texts

  • Metro Futures / Open Lab, Nexus

    2020
    • Front-end development work on a web-based tool to launch and review the new Tyne and Wear Metro trains

  • Climate:Red / Open Lab, IFRC

    2020
    • Contribute to the user-interface for an IFRC virtual conference held in September 2020

  • Hate Speech Measures and Counter-measures / The Alan Turing Institute

    2019-2020
    • Scraping of misogynistic and anti-feminist forum posts and searchable storage of this data
    • Using Puppeteer and headless Chrome to crawl the website
    • Linux server and MySQL database set-up on Azure

education

BSc Computer Network Technology / Northumbria University

2011-2015

Completed modules in web technologies, operating systems, network technology, C/C++, CCNA and an industrial placement working with C# and web-based systems for the NHS.

technical

  • Programming:
    • JavaScript
    • TypeScript
    • HTML/CSS
    • C#.NET
    • Java
  • Software:
    • Angular
    • VueJS
    • Node
    • WordPress
    • MongoDB
    • Postgres
    • SQL
    • Puppeteer
    • Salesforce
    • Docker
    • Azure
  • Topics:
    • Web Development

Interests

  • I enjoy:
    • Walking
    • Dog Training
    • Travel