Summary
Kashif Atcha is a Junior Software Developer with four years of hands-on experience and a strong grounding in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, SQL, Docker, Git, and TDD. Trained through a Level 4 Software Engineering apprenticeship and a 12-week Makers Academy bootcamp, he brings disciplined engineering practices to public-sector projects at the Government Digital Service. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he focuses on shipping maintainable web applications and automated tests. His unconventional route from an MA in English Literature to software development gives him clear communication skills and a knack for translating complex requirements into user-focused solutions. Based in the UK, he combines formal apprenticeship experience with practical bootcamp-driven learning to ramp quickly in production environments.
4 years of coding experience
Master of Arts - MA, English Literature, Master of Arts - MA, English Literature at The University of Manchester