Hi, I'm Chris

Experience

BNP Paribas CIB

Software Engineer, Intern

June 2025 - August 2025

  • Built a monitoring system using Java (Spring Boot) for ETL data pipelines that support the securities inventory of the Prime Brokerage.
  • Enabled automatic Apache Flink job recovery and improved observability through Dynatrace alerts, reducing manual intervention and improving application uptime.

Barclays

Software Engineer, Intern

June 2024 - August 2024

  • Developed a full-stack web application for tracking products across all business units, using Java (Spring Boot), TypeScript (React), and PostgreSQL with tools such as Docker and GitLab for CI/CD.
  • Awarded 2nd place in the Intern GenAI Hackathon for a chatbot prototype that provided customer support, also receiving the Best Presenter (Technology) award.

AtkinsRéalis

Digital Strategy Consultant, Year in Industry

August 2023 - June 2024

  • Developed a Digital Strategy for a UK Government client, supporting extensive digital transformation by assessing digital maturity, interviewing senior stakeholders, and establishing digital governance frameworks.
  • Contributed to AtkinsRéalis' Global AI Strategy, identifying use cases for AI-driven transformation across internal and client operations by developing value propositions to address key challenges.

The University of Liverpool

Research Assistant

March 2023 - August 2023

  • Applied natural language processing (NLP) techniques to identify relationships within a social network, based on text data from user-generated captions.
  • Developed Python scripts for web scraping, as well as conducting data cleaning, analysis, and visualisation using Python.

Education

Imperial College London

MSc, Computing (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)

2025 - 2026

  • Thesis: "Optimisations For Platforms That Execute Agentic AI Workflows"
  • Highlighted Modules: Machine Learning Systems and Hardware, Software Engineering for Machine Learning Systems, Scalable Systems and Data, Mathematics for Machine Learning, Introduction to Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Robotics, Robot Learning

The University of Liverpool

BSc, Financial Computing with a Year in Industry

2021 - 2025

  • Highlighted Modules: Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Programming, Database Development, Scripting Languages, Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, Computer-Based Trading In Financial Markets, Computational Game Theory, Securities Markets, Financial Risk Management, Business Finance, Financial Reporting