Curriculum Vitae

Experience

Career Break

May 2023 – present

• Career break for health reasons; now recovered and returning to full-time work.
• The projects below were built during this period through sustained self-directed study (and are available on GitHub), alongside courses in computer architecture, memory management and others.

Junior Software Consultant

July 2022 – April 2023 | Realworld Systems | Cambridge, UK

• Worked as a developer on the GIS software GE Smallworld using Magik (OOP)
• Built a new address database and implemented an importer to load approx. 6 million records for production use.
• Wrote and maintained code: regression testing, code reviews, wrote and delivered patches; used Git for version control.

Research Intern

June 2019 – August 2019 | Institute for Mathematical Innovation, University of Bath | Bath, UK

• Independently scoped and conducted a research project on university transport logistics, working without a defined brief to formulate research questions and gather data from the university and local council.
• Analysed and visualised geospatial data using QGIS; produced a research poster and presented findings to academic staff.

Projects

grape (NFA-based regex engine)

C++ | 2026

• Built a grep-style regex engine by using Thompson’s NFA construction to create an NFA from a regex, and then running the NFA on an input string.
• Diverged from the backtracking approach recommended by the CodeCrafters’ tutorial after discovering that some regex engines avoid this approach due to its worst-case behaviour (exponential time complexity), and favour DFA/NFA instead. I had studied these during my degree and was curious to see a real-world application.
• Pipeline: tokeniser → shunting-yard postfix conversion → Thompson’s construction → NFA simulation.
• Supports character classes, shorthand classes (\d, \w, \s), alternation, quantifiers, concatenation, and substring matching.

Ray Tracer with Photon Mapping

C++ | 2026

• Undergraduate project extended and refactored in 2026: a Whitted-style ray tracer with global illumination via photon mapping, implemented using Jensen’s 1996 paper.
• Implements separate caustic and global photon maps stored in a kd-tree with k-NN lookup, multi-object scenes (including spheres and polymeshes), Fresnel refraction, reflection, Phong shading, point lights.
• Returned to this project in 2026 with more experience: reworked it to use smart pointers, rather than the C++98 style I was previously using, finalised a few features (Phong normal interpolation for smooth mesh shading) and extended it to include features from my Rust path tracer, such as gamma correction and anti-aliasing.

Lambda Calculus Interpreter with Krivine Abstract Machine

Haskell | 2026

• Undergraduate project revisited in 2026. Evaluates lambda calculus expressions (a minimal model of computation) using the Krivine Abstract Machine, a call-by-name evaluator.
• Rewrote the Krivine Abstract Machine from scratch using closures for a correct implementation.

Hack Assembler

Haskell | 2026

• A two-pass assembler for the Hack instruction set, from the course ’From NAND to Tetris’.

CHIP-8 Emulator

Rust | 2025

• An interpreter capable of running any standard CHIP-8 program. Passes Timendus’ test suite and runs the games in John Earnest’s CHIP-8 Archive.

Path Tracer

Rust | 2025

• Path tracer following Peter Shirley’s Ray Tracing series, translating it from C++ to Rust. Features include: positionable camera, BVH, volumes, emissive surfaces, materials (lambertian, dielectric, metal), Perlin noise, spheres and quadrilaterals.

Education

Mathematics MSc

2021 | University of London | London, UK

Modules : Graph Theory, Number Theory & Geometry, Algebraic Number Theory, Linear & Non-Linear Optimisation, Methods in Finance, essay on Fermat’s Last Theorem, dissertation on Riemann surfaces.

Mathematics BSc (Hons.)

2020 | University of Bath | Bath, UK

Studied 7 computer science modules (42 ECTS credits), including cryptography, algorithms and time complexity. I particularly enjoyed programming projects:

• Advanced Computer Graphics: building a ray tracer with photon mapping in C++,
• Functional Programming coursework: building a lambda calculus interpreter with the Krivine Abstract Machine in Haskell,
• Numerical Analysis coursework in MATLAB

Throughout my degree I completed coursework in C++, Haskell, MATLAB and R.

I also studied pure and applied maths modules such as: Algebraic Curves, Representation Theory of Finite Abelian Groups, Continuum Mechanics, Modelling and Dynamical Systems, Vector Calculus and PDEs.

A-Levels

Gower College Swansea | 2017 | Swansea, UK

A Levels: Mathematics (A*), Further Mathematics (A*), Chemistry (A). UKMT Gold award, and represented Gower College in the team challenge.

Courses

From NAND to Tetris Pt 1

2025-2026 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Online

Built a general-purpose computer from first principles in a hardware description language (HDL), from elementary NAND-based logic gates through an ALU, RAM, and a working CPU. Wrote two programs in Hack assembly and a Hack-to-binary assembler.

Boot.dev

2025 - 2026 | Online

Courses: Memory Management in C, Data Structures & Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Functional Programming, HTTP Clients, Go, SQL, and Python.

Projects: an RSS feed aggregator and a Pokedex CLI (PokeAPI) in Go; and a Static Site Generator, Maze Solver, and an AI Agent (Google Gemini API) in Python.

Technical Skills

Languages & Tools: C++, Rust, Python, Go, Haskell, Magik, Git