My name is Natalie and I live in Bournemouth, England. I have been developing apps for Google Android since early 2009 and I currently work as an Android freelance developer.

I grew up in France and moved to England in 1998. In 1984, my mother bought an Amstrad computer and I fell in love with programming. Later, at University, I found myself studying civil engineering – more or less by chance – but I also got into web design – that meant HTML coding back then (1994). Then I got into php, MySQL, javascript and css. In the mid 00s, I started learning Java and finally, I started developing for Google Android in 2009.

At the moment, I am learning Scala and my goal is to work on software for the scientific/research community.

I am bilingual English/French and I hope to one day master Japanese (I am at beginner’s level at the moment). I play the guitar, I write weird punky songs, I compose neo-classical music, I have written a novel and several short stories and I always have a few creative projects on the go. I lived in London for over ten years before moving to Dorset and I still sometimes struggle with the fact that I now “live in the countryside” (I KNOW that Bournemouth isn’t the countryside but culturally, it feels like this to me). I am an Atheist, a member of Dorset Humanists, and a member of Dorset Linux User Group.