Key Achievements

• Developed features for Skyscanner's B2B API, handling over 60 million requests daily and powering Microsoft Bing Flights, Tripadvisor Flights, and more.
• Optimised thread pool implementation and CPU scaling, resulting in cost savings of approximately 50% (from $94,000 to $47,450 yearly).
• Engineered Skyscanner's B2B API for integration with ChatGPT & Bing Copilot plugins, and Google's Search Page Flight Integration.
• Served as principal lead for introducing baggage cost initiative in the B2B API space, leading to a 5% uplift in redirects.
• Led design and development of the B2B auto-suggest API, empowering over 90 partners to integrate auto-suggest into their platforms.

Key Achievements

• Implemented core downloads service for Arm's external customers, built with React, Redux & NodeJS, GraphQL.
• Proposed & implemented monitoring and alerting for back-end services via Azure Functions - caught 3 major incidents in the first month.
• Proactively resolved production bugs, used Agile to prioritise requirements and Azure DevOps CI/CD to rapidly iterate.
• Advocated for & implemented security headers via Akamai for arm.com - increased the rating from D to A on securityheaders.com.

Buisness Case

Developed a (Java) web application to automate SQL queries which were manually changed every day in the backend, after which the results were copied and pasted into a SharePoint document - taking up to 2 hours every day.
With the application, the process was 12 times faster - taking up to 10 minutes for the same task.

Overall Impression

As someone who had limited Java experience before undertaking the project, I thoroughly enjoyed learning new technologies and the experience of delivering a solution in a work place setting.
I was particularly impressed with SonarQube, which is an industry standard tool for quality assurance. It ensures your code is clean - for example making sure there are no unhandled exceptions and also gives a hard statistical number on your code coverage from testing.

Technologies

EE1-07 Software Engineering 1: Introduction to Computing.

• Responsible for introducing programming to new undergraduate students.
• Developed steadfast presence and revised many deep programming concepts during teaching.
• Built communication collaboration skills through working directly with the professor and other teaching assistants

Developed a 2d side scrolling game for individuals with cystic fibrosis

• Participants controlled the game using a breathalyzer
• Playing the game would encourage deep and controlled breathing, helping participants combat their condition

Responsible for overall wellbeing of the club

• Built Node JS app to check if someone is a member of the table tennis club (HTTP request)
• Ensured inter-university matches (BUCS) are played to an appropriate standard
• Increased awareness of table tennis by building the website for the club and advertising flyers

Winner of Best Short-term Insight Scheme - 2017 National Undergraduate Employability Awards

• Developed leadership, communication & planning skills essential to the classroom at Resource for London
• Taught Design Technology at The Bemrose School, Derby.
• An eye-opener to the impact of the socio-economic background of students - 33% of pupils on Free School Meals achieved 5 A*-Cs at GCSE compared to 60.5% of all other pupils. (United Kingdom)

Developed strong communication & leadership qualities - nothing else is quite as hard as grabbing the attention of a room full of 30 kids