My Journey

🚀 Spontai — Co-Founder CTO

Built and shipped Spontai, an AI travel planning app designed to generate personalised itineraries from a user’s location, mood, preferences, and available time. I worked on it part-time as sole founder, owning the full product lifecycle from architecture and AI backend to App Store metadata, marketing, user feedback, and support.

• Built the mobile app using React Native, Expo, TypeScript, Supabase, and EAS, shipping regular iOS and Android releases.
• Processed 50+ TestFlight feedback items into prioritised issues, using user feedback to drive fortnightly product iterations.
• Built a production RAG pipeline for personalised itinerary generation using OpenAI, pgvector semantic search, keyword search, community event scoring, and Google Places fallback.
• Managed Supabase infrastructure across 60+ database migrations and 20 edge functions, balancing performance, cost, and scalability.
• Used Claude Code with MCP integrations, Expo, Sentry, Figma, Context7, and custom CLAUDE.md rules to speed up development and create agentic workflows.
• Implemented monitoring with Sentry to track LLM usage, latency, cache hit rates, provider costs, structured logs, tracing, platform, device, and app version.

💼 Wellington Management

Started my first full-time software engineering role at Wellington Management, working on Mosaic: an internal platform used by 300+ global developers. This role marked my transition from Computer Science conversion graduate into a professional software engineer building production-grade tooling inside a global investment management firm.

• Worked across React, TypeScript, AWS, Jenkins CI/CD, CloudWatch, Kibana, Sonar, Jest, Vitest, and React Testing Library.
• Supported scalable deployments and developer tooling across Mosaic, improving development-to-production workflows.
• Introduced improvements such as HTTP caching, hot module reloading, symbolic linking, Storybook, and Figma-driven UI workflows.
• Gained hands-on experience with production monitoring, infrastructure, code quality, testing, and platform engineering in a large-scale financial technology environment.

🎓 Career Switch: MSc Computer Science at Bristol University

After studying Liberal Arts and building experience across consulting, operations, and start-up environments, I made the decision to formally switch into software engineering by completing an MSc Computer Science conversion at the University of Bristol.

• Completed an intensive conversion MSc covering C, data structures and algorithms, computer architecture, Java, software engineering, and a client-facing summer project.
• Built the technical foundation needed to move from being interested in technology to developing real full-stack applications.
• Awarded a £5,000 MyWorld scholarship supporting postgraduate students in the creative technology industry.

Project Destined — Head of Global Talent

Real estate training programme fostering financial literacy across Education, Recruitment, Investing, and Financial Services. Promoted from intern to the most senior non-American student globally following exceptional performance as the top student ambassador, recruiting 200+ UK and European students.

• Participated in evaluation of a live real estate deal — mixed-use development in London — alongside professionals from CBRE IM, Greystar, and Invesco.
• Prepared and presented an investment memo to senior real estate professionals; received 60+ hours of training in property valuation, deal financing, financial modelling, and market research.
• Built 10-year cash flow projections and sensitivity analysis (varying growth rates, hold periods, and exit cap rates) working directly with CBRE IM professionals.
• Pioneered operational processes on Monday.com — constructed and managed recruitment pipelines, cutting daily fault-management time by 3.5 hours through strategic automation.
• Orchestrated multi-channel marketing campaigns on Handshake and LinkedIn Recruiter, implementing Zapier automations that boosted candidate outreach and daily enquiries by 240%.
• Built an interactive recruitment dashboard delivering real-time metrics and facilitating data-driven decisions for the entire senior leadership team.

♻️ Green Sustainable Delivery Roadmap: M&S Summer Internship

Received a return offer to join the Technology Graduate Scheme after connecting with Software Engineers, tailoring my Green Consulting Project into a UX Website implementation. Unfortunately, this was changed to a Corporate Graduate offer, due to the removal of the Tech Grad scheme. I took a risk in refusing this offer and following my passion, starting an MSc Computer Science master's conversion at Bristol University.

🔍 Embracing My Superpower

I redefined ADHD as a strength. Hyper-focus became my ally, powering my problem-solving skills and igniting creative breakthroughs in tech and process automation.

🧑‍🎓 MSc Computer Science at Bristol University

Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done. Completed a Masters, packing all programming modules taught in a 3-year undergraduate in one year. Very intense, but covered everything from Hack Assembly, C, Java, to leading a Mobile Fintech project for my Dissertation. Pleased to say that I have graduated too!

💼 InvesTech Associate at Wellington Management (Platform Engineer)

Full-stack platform engineer improving enterprise desktop applications serving 2,000+ global users. Trying to get 1% better every day.