在上中学时，马蒂甜就积极参与学校网络和教育技术的建立和运营，设计面向用户的系统，供数千名教职员工和学生使用。 如今，马蒂是一家名为Omnistratus的云咨询公司的创始人，他正在利用他在雷丁大学获得的计算机科学学位所获得的专业知识来提供Teach Stream。 该平台正在帮助英国各地的学校在疫情期间为学生提供安全的在线学习。
对计算机科学的热爱
Marty’s hands-on experience at school made choosing further study in computer science an “easy choice” and he soon made a visit to Reading.
“I attended an Open Day, and found the 部门 计算机科学 session really enjoyable. This, combined with the spacious, green campus and pleasant accommodation instantly made me feel like Reading was the correct choice.”
马蒂在工业年攻读计算机科学理学士学位后，在《金融时报》工作了一年。 在这里，他在网络安全团队工作，获得了宝贵的现实生活经验，以补充他的学习。
“While on my industrial year I learnt a great amount about agile working practices, security best practices and modern IT architectures.”
After returning to Reading in his final year, Marty’s development was clear, and he went on to be awarded the highest overall grade in the year, with his final year project contributing largely to this.
“My final year project aimed to solve a missing component at the time in the AWS product line, adding a configurable replication strategy to the existing DynamoDB service using serverless components such as DynamoDB streams, S3, API Gateway and Lambda.”
良好的职业前景
除了对他的工作的认可，马蒂还指出了他在雷丁大学的课堂内外的几个亮点，这些亮点使他具备了建立自己公司的商业头脑。
“I found great value in the Student Enterprise module, a cross-departmental module with the Henley Business School, which focussed on entrepreneurship.
“Studying 计算机科学 provides great career prospects. 它涵盖了如此广泛的范围，这意味着在这个行业中有各种各样的角色可以开始。
“It goes a long way to put the time into developing your skills yourself, creating products and trying out new technologies and practices. Along with reading whitepapers and books to further expand your knowledge about the field, this can help you stand out from the crowd.”
在大流行期间向有需要的人提供支持
由于英国的第一次封锁迫使学校适应远程教学方式，马蒂明白需要一个虚拟学习平台，为学生提供一个安全可靠的环境。
“I did some research with schools who I already had existing connections with, and it turned out there was a lack of products that could deliver virtual lessons whilst meeting safeguarding requirements.
“I decided to create a safe learning platform that was capable of handling a classful of students, and was simple to use.
“Teach Stream is specifically designed for secondary schools and is built with simplicity in mind – there are minimal training requirements and all teachers need to do is schedule the lesson from their web browser, invite their students and start teaching.
“Teach Stream puts students’ privacy and safety first. Students don’t have the option to send their webcam like other virtual meeting platforms, but their audio can still be requested by the teacher for enhanced interaction.
“It gives the power back to the teacher, enabling the clearing of the chat discussion, along with muting and removal of selected students should the need arise.
“Students don’t need to sign up to the platform, instead when they join a lesson they must verify their school email address via a confirmation code helping ensure traceability and preventing unauthorised access to lessons. You can also record lessons and have other teachers join as moderators.”
积极的影响
马蒂很高兴能开发出一个系统，帮助这么多人在大流行期间继续接受教育。 Teach Stream目前在线支持1万名学生和教师。
“It’s great to see so many people using the platform and being able to continue learning despite the challenges of the pandemic.
“During my time working in IT, I have developed countless products and projects of which some gain traction and some don’t. The best thing is when lots of people start using your solution and have positive experiences with it.”