Top Software Engineer starts his career in the heart of London
Mon, 27 Jul 2015 06:00:00 BST
Thomas Frampton also harbours ambitions of starting his own business in the future
SOFTWARE studies at the University of Huddersfield provided award-winning student Thomas Frampton with a passport to the stimulating world of cutting-edge start-up companies. He is from a quiet village in East Yorkshire. Now, aged 23, he is based in the heart of London.
Thomas has just graduated with First Class Honours in his BSc Software Engineering degree. Exceptionally high marks mean that he is one of the elite group of 2015 students to have been awarded a Chancellor’s Prize.
Initially, however, he intended to study the subject of Entrepreneurship. At the last minute, says Thomas, he switched to Software Engineering, which is also a major course area at the University of Huddersfield.
This does not mean that Thomas has shed his entrepreneurial ambition, however. He aims to start up his own company one day and his expertise in software engineering will stand him in excellent stead.
“The course has equipped me with knowledge of the whole software development process, not just the ability to write code. Writing the code is just the tip of the iceberg; you also have to understand the requirements of the client, design, test and maintain the software. Now, I have moved to London. Nowhere in the world are there more opportunities,” asserted Thomas.
He already had experience of living and working in the capital during a demanding one-year work place as a software engineer for multi-national consultancy Accenture. Now, he is back in London, having landed a job as a with ambitious start-up company MiDrive, which develops mobile apps designed to help people learn to drive.
In time, Thomas aims to launch his own enterprise.
“I would love to create my own start-up when I have found the right idea. When I am confident that I have, I will go for it.”
His computer skills will be the basis of his business.
“The allure of software engineering is that you can build something from the ground up straight away – all of the materials required can be downloaded in minutes from the internet. Then you just start typing on your keyboard!”
Ironically, Thomas did not fully understand the basis of software development until he came to the University of Huddersfield.
“But something clicked in my second week and since then I have been able to absorb knowledge much more easily. The teaching has been very good.”
Thomas is from Leconfield, near Beverley, and attended Longcroft School.
