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Why should you hire me?

I started my career as a practitioner, trying to solve real business problems such as predicting queue lengths or classifying sentiment based on text input. As my career evolved, I slowly shifted towards traditional software engineering, designing and shipping to production scalable, robust and maintainable software. I have experience working across the stack - from responsive web frontends and microservices-based backends, through architecting, compiling, packaging and shipping software, to the CI/CD pipelines used to test and deploy these solutions. Having started on the business side before transitioning to the technical side puts me in a unique position to understand the needs of both the business and the technical teams and be effective with my communication.

The formal stuff

I earned a Master in Management from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Master in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. I also hold a Certificate in Quantitative Finance from the CQF Institute. I have over 10 years of relevant work experience at top companies.

A non-exhaustive list of areas I can help with

  • Architecting, building and deploying scalable microservices-based applications on Kubernetes, on your choice of cloud platform provider.
  • Designing and building modern, responsive web applications, using the latest web technologies - React, TypeScript, GraphQL, etc.
  • Anything WebAssembly. I have experience building WebAssembly modules in Rust, C, and C++.
  • Data Science, Visualization and Machine Learning. Data cleaning, wrangling, analysis, and model training and deployment. I can also deploy your models as standalone web applications.
  • Jupyter: custom kernels, lab extensions, and widgets.
  • Data visualization and dashboarding.
  • Teaching and mentoring. I introduced a rigorous Python curriculum to the graduate programme at my previous employer, and have taught hunderds of new joiners and interns.

Connect with me! I'm available on Twitter or LinkedIn.

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