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RHenson portfolio

Hello and welcome to my development portfolio page, this site features my projects and commercial experience. I have 5 years total commercial experience primarily focused on web development but I have also worked on desktop software. I have proven experience with full stack .NET development (HTML/CSS/JS frontend, C# & VB.NET backend and T-SQL server) and with using both Visual Studio Code as well as Visual Studio. I have used JIRA, BitBucket and Azure Devops for issue tracking and git repos previously.

Outside of commercial experience I have basic skills in Python and Rust, able to use Visual Studio code, and able to use both Windows and Linux with ease. I am also comfortable with the command line, having navigated Linux systems without a GUI many times. On top of all of this, I also run my own bare metal server using Nginx and docker containers, including this portfolio.

I am based in East Sussex in the UK and am immediately to work locally or remotely. If you wish to contact me, I can be emailed at rhyshenson@gmail.com.

Scroll below to see what I have been a part of!

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The Access Group (Experience)

I worked for The Access Group for over 4 years from 2019 to 2024, working on the Access People Planner product for health and social care. I worked on implementing new functionality for clients, resolving reported bugs and issues, optimising code and T-SQL stored procedures. I've written documentation on live DB queries and a team guide on how to write components for a company wide project using react components.

Languages and technologies used:

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript
  • VB.NET (Frontend and serverside code)
  • C# (serverside)
  • T-SQL
  • React (Occasionally for integrations, not primarily used)
  • Angular.js
  • ASP.NET web forms
  • Telerik UI
  • Git version control
  • JIRA
  • BitBucket
  • Azure Devops
  • Github Copilot
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Delta Bot (Personal Project)

Delta bot is my primary personal project currently. Written as a test to link OpenAI APIs to Discord APIs, the current version was written from scratch in Rust, a language I had never properly used previously. I have learned the basics of Rust working on this project and I believe that I would be able to start another small project using Rust in the future with a lot less problems. As a part of this, I also edited an open source docker container to set up a serverless instance with the correct data. This bot is in active use on a small number of Discord servers and has had good reviews from those who have used it.

Languages and technologies used:

  • Rust
  • Python (for serverless)
  • Serverless instances
  • Generative AI
  • OpenAI API
  • Runpod custom serverless Stable Diffusion implementation

Delta bot source code can be found here. The serverless interface source code can be found here.

See also an older version of the bot which was written in Python here.

A screenshot showing the Milestoned plan app being used

Milestoned LLC (Experience)

I had a 1 year apprenticeship involving working for Milestoned and learning C# to be able to do that. As a part of my duties I assisted in the development of the Plan app for developing project work breakdown structures which was distributed on the Windows app store and the development of a web app that would allow for the viewing of videos from multiple sources, designed for large scale viewing.

Languages and technologies used:

  • C#
  • UWP
  • ASP.NET
  • HTML
  • CSS

As of writing, Milestoned LLC appears to have dissolved with all web presence now offline so any links will either lead to known working pages or the Internet Archive.

The Milestoned website can be found here. The plan app can be found here (NOTE: I do not believe that the auth servers are online anymore so you cannot login).

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Portfolio & Server (Personal Project)

This portfolio and the server it runs on have both been written and run by myself.

This portfolio has been written to load in any conditions, every part of this website has been made to be as small as possible, no javascript has been used, and only 4 files are loaded (the HTML, the CSS and 2 images). Through this, I have learned more about CSS and SVG animations, every part of the light/dark toggle at the top of the page was completely new to me.

The server is bare metal, running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS using Apache to serve files. Currently on this server are this portfolio, an instance of Delta Bot (see above) and a pair of personal instances of open source web servers through docker. There has only been one issue with this server since I have rented it where any action took minutes to finish, I singlehandedly found that this was due to hard disk failure which was resolved after contacting the server provider.

Languages and technologies used:

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Nginx
  • Docker

The source code for this website can be found here.