Darshan Shah
Destination: Royal Holloway
Subject: Physics/IT
Date of Leaving Hatch End High School: July 2015
After leaving the Sixth Form I was at Royal Holloway University of London for 2 years studying Physics with Particle Physics before I dropped out and retrained in the field of IT. I then started an Apprenticeship in IT, which I passed. During this time, I worked in Villers High School in Ealing. After passing, I was then employed at St Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith for another year. Unfortunately, I was made redundant in august of last year. After being made redundant, I decided to start and launch my own IT Support and PC Building business. I successfully launched it in August and have had a few clients. Most from the UK that wanted a PC to be built and one from the Netherlands. Over the past few years, I have also been doing some live streaming on the popular streaming service Twitch TV, where people tune in to watch me play video games with my friend group and where I stream my Sim Racing League Racing events. I recently made a pretty big achievement and got into the affiliate program for Twitch. This meant that I get revenue from Twitch from showing adds and getting paid from people subscribing and donating using the twitch currency. I am also now employed at Notting Hill & Ealing High School as one of their new IT Technicians.
I also create music and recently, I have managed to get my music distributed onto Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and Amazon Music. This was a huge undertaking for me as I had previously only published my music using Soundcloud.
Hatch End holds a very special place in my heart.