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Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium

Focused on using neural nets to reduce search node expansion when applying the A* algorithm.-Development of a supervised learning model to improve speed of optimal route selection-Development of a GIS data pipeline for creation of routing problems-Researching state of the art methods for routing optimisation-Collaborating with academics and key stakeholders

London, England, United Kingdom

Joined the Platform Engineering team of a scale up digital banking company during a time of explosive customer growth. Main duties included:Infrastructure and software engineering -Deployment and maintenance of microservices to on prem and cloud based Linux infrastructure (AWS, GCP, VMWare) manually and via Ansible/Gitlab pipeline-Development of custom monitoring tools interacting with Google and NodePing API services.-Liaising with clients, vendors and Bankable service delivery to enable new features in production.-Network and firewall configuration (Fortigate, HAProxy).-Database administration and deployment (PostgreSQL).-Creating detailed technical documentation to enrich the team and company knowledge base.-Training new team members and collaborating with colleagues.Platform support-Monitoring of the Bankable API via ELK and custom NodePing setups.-Taking quick manual action in reaction to service outages.-On-call and overnight working in order to maintain 24/7 uptime during incidents and migrations-Investigation and resolution of issues within the Bankable platform.-Developing shell scripts and SQL functions to correct data errors.-Identifying bugs in Java/PHP/C++/SQL/Perl software and liaising with development/service delivery to devise fixes.-Managing customer expectations in order to maintain a positive client perception.-UAT testing of new products and workflows.-Authoring technical client facing documents.

Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Worked as part of a technical support team specialising in static data management and using Unix terminals to interact with Fidessa systems. Situated in a global headquarters, utilising a "follow the sun" support system. Main duties include:Maintenance and operation of central databases-Liaising with exchanges and third party providers to ensure only accurate data is committed to customer systems. -Carrying out daily reviews of data feeds and resolving data integrity errors. -Taking quick manual action based on exchange notifications/market events and providing regular updates to stakeholders.-Manually enriching data for which automated solutions do not exist.-FIX link connectivity maintenance, including writing detailed rollback procedures.-Ensuring critical details of issues are captured to assist with future work.Customer technical support-Providing technical training on Fidessa data management solutions and trading workstations via phone and email.-Investigation and resolution of issues within customer production trading platforms.-Identifying bugs in the product and liaising with development/service delivery to devise fixes.-Managing customer expectations in order to maintain a positive client perception.-Working closely with service delivery to implement new features to customer systems.-UAT testing of new products and workflows.-Authoring technical documents for a client portal.-Training new team members and collaborating with colleagues.Development of support scripts-Identifying inefficiencies in common support tasks.-Creation and continuous improvement of tools to automate manual work.

-Providing safety briefings to customers for a high ropes course.-Assisting customers who ran into difficulties at height-Inspecting and maintaining course equipment-Marketing and events duties

Master'S Degree, Applied Computer Science, Greater Distinction

Msci, Astrophysics, 2:1