Experience

Mastercard

Sep 2024 - Present

Software Engineer

• (1st rotation) Backend engineering for a real-time payment processing system built with Java Spring Boot.
• Designed and implemented REST APIs to decouple services from a shared database, enabling independent deployment and improving service isolation.
• (2nd rotation) DevOps team that owned the stage environments for a production payment processor.
• Automated and maintained stage environments using Chef; monitored and diagnosed release issues using Dynatrace and Splunk to ensure performance targets were met.

Royal Holloway, University of London

Sep 2023 - May 2024

Teaching Assistant

• Mentored ~40 students weekly in algorithms/data structures labs.
• Provided debugging support and conceptual explanations for core CS modules.
• Assisted in marking coursework.

Mastercard

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

Software Engineer (Intern)

• Built a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system using Llama to answer engineers' queries over internal documentation.
• Implemented local embedding and retrieval pipeline to enable secure on-device inference.

Leonardo

Jul 2022 - Aug 2022

Software Engineer (Summer Placement)

• Developed components of a radio-frequency interference detection and classification system operating across 24-40 GHz.
• A custom antenna sent a signal to an XMicrowave kit that was configured over an API to down convert a 24-40 GHz signal into the 1-5 GHz range.
• The signal was processed by a Software Defined Radio that processed the signal using the onboard FPGA and sent measurements and classifications to the controller.