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Geneva, Switzerland

I joined the ALICE experiment as a Full Stack Web Developer, and delivered several features to the 'Bookkeeping' web app. Bookkeeping is used to keep track of day-to-day operations at ALICE, such as the experiments' configuration, LHC Fills, and data taking. The app also allows staff to communicate by writing 'Logs'. I implemented feature where users could link Logs to LHC Fills, an entity in the database. This involved adding a new table to the database to represent the many-to-many-… Show more I joined the ALICE experiment as a Full Stack Web Developer, and delivered several features to the 'Bookkeeping' web app. Bookkeeping is used to keep track of day-to-day operations at ALICE, such as the experiments' configuration, LHC Fills, and data taking. The app also allows staff to communicate by writing 'Logs'. I implemented feature where users could link Logs to LHC Fills, an entity in the database. This involved adding a new table to the database to represent the many-to-many- relationship, adding API endpoints to support the creation of Logs with LHC Fills, displayed these on the front-end, and wrote integration tests. I am currently implementing a flexible data table component as an open source contributor. I published a report on my achievements during my placement which is available online the CERN document server. Show less

I am responsible for developing and maintaining the ReactJS web-app for AiS. The app generates a page for each African country and I helped build the API that fetches information on scientific publications in the given country from the database. To display this data, I designed and created custom data visualisations using D3JS, such as the 'AiS Badge' which is used by the organisation as their flagship infographic.

Harwell, England, United Kingdom

During my Year in Industry as part of my degree, I worked as a scientific software engineer on the Mantid Project, which provides tools for data reduction and analysis of particle physics and materials science experiments. I was involved in all aspects of the software lifecycle, including sprint planning, development, unit/integration testing, code reviews, and gathering user feedback. I delivered several features to improve the user experience, including a feature where a tool that plots 3D… Show more During my Year in Industry as part of my degree, I worked as a scientific software engineer on the Mantid Project, which provides tools for data reduction and analysis of particle physics and materials science experiments. I was involved in all aspects of the software lifecycle, including sprint planning, development, unit/integration testing, code reviews, and gathering user feedback. I delivered several features to improve the user experience, including a feature where a tool that plots 3D data reacted to changes in the data elsewhere in the application. I did this by implementing an Observer pattern. I also fixed bugs related to concurrency and gained deep experience with python: the application interfaced with a C++ backend exposed to python, and extended matplotlib and numpy to bring custom functionality. Show less

Master'S Degree, Computer Science, 1St

I recently graduated from The University of Sheffield and achieved a first class MComp Computer Science with a Year in Industry. I gained.

A-Levels, Aaaa* Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Extended Project.