Experience
Where I've worked and studied, and the projects that came out of each chapter.
Work
2025 — now
Data Engineer
Oplevel
Oplevel is a three-person startup building a novel analytics platform on an activity schema model, a different approach to client data from conventional medallion or dbt-style architectures. I build the full analytics pipeline for clients: transforming raw source data into activity streams, defining metrics on top, and delivering dashboards that answer real business questions, mostly in BigQuery SQL, across clients spanning healthcare, cannabis compliance, and media. Being early-stage means the role goes beyond client delivery: I report bugs as they surface, work directly with clients to figure out what features would actually solve their problem, and work with the developers on what's feasible to build and when, feeding regularly into UI and UX decisions from the perspective of someone using the platform daily. Fast-moving and varied, with real input into how the product itself develops.
Projects from this time
2024 — 2025
Resilience Engineer
AtkinsRéalis
I joined AtkinsRéalis on the graduate scheme as a Resilience Engineer in the defence sector. With engineering workload on the account thin, I moved into supporting data analytics for a key account, building CRM dashboards in Power BI and automating data hygiene processes that had previously been manual, and learning Power Query properly to handle the larger jobs. The tools were picked up and reused by several others on the account, and it became the best-performing account in the portfolio from a data hygiene standpoint. Not the engineering role originally signed up for, but the one that showed me I enjoy the data side, and pushed me to start building things in my own time.
Projects from this time
2022 — 2023
Mechanical Engineer
TTP (The Technology Partnership)
At TTP I worked across design and development engineering for PCR machines, cell and gene therapy devices, and next generation medical instruments. On the cell and gene therapy side, I designed parts to improve EMC compliance and device resilience. Most of the test equipment I built was electromechanical, with custom 3D printed consumables, embedded sensors, and Python and C++ scripting for automated data capture. Everything ran under ISO 13485, which taught me discipline in documentation and traceability. Working alongside biologists and physicists daily made this the role that confirmed I like cross-discipline problems best.
2017 — 2023
Design Engineer (Part-Time)
Avenue Pattern
A part-time design role alongside my studies at a small, family-owned company, designing assembly and checking fixtures for aerospace parts and creating engineering drawings for manual machining, using SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor. Working within the family business, I supported wherever engineering help was needed.
2016 — 2019
Industry Placements
AP Racing, Aston Martin, Jaguar Land Rover, Calor Gas
Before university, I did a run of short industry placements to see engineering from different angles. At AP Racing I designed a clutch, optimising its geometry and 3D printing a rapid prototype. At Aston Martin I rotated through advanced manufacturing teams, drivetrain, electronics, production line, and Special Vehicle Operations, assisting on a virtual build and a production line prototype. At Jaguar Land Rover I worked in body engineering, rotating through quality control, electric drivetrain, and climate control, and got early exposure to material choice, stress simulation, and radio wave simulation. A week at Calor Gas gave me a first look at systems engineering. Short placements, but between them I got a genuinely broad view of what different corners of the industry actually do day to day.
Education
2019 — 2023
MEng Mechanical Engineering with Mechatronics
Newcastle University
Graduated with a 1st Class MEng, switching into the mechatronics pathway after my placement year showed me I prefer working across mechanical, electrical, and software boundaries. Coursework included modelling fluid flow and thermofluid systems in MATLAB. My dissertation was an autonomous vehicle control system combining an Arduino (C++) for sensing with a Raspberry Pi (Python) for computer vision, which won the best individual project prize in Mechanical Engineering and the Applied Engineering Excellence Scholarship. In final year I proposed, pitched, and led a six-person thesis project building an autonomous ocean plastic capture vessel, delivered as two working prototypes and awarded best thesis project in the School of Engineering. Modules included Mechatronics and Mobile Robotics, Distributed Control Systems, and Design of Mechanical Power Transmissions.
2012 — 2019
A-Levels & GCSEs
North Leamington Sixth Form & Secondary School
Maths, Chemistry, and Physics at A-Level, alongside 10 GCSEs graded A*–B. Outside the classroom I led a 4-person team organising the school's annual Race for Life, raising £12,500 for Cancer Research UK in the event's first two years. I also ran a homeless initiative through NCS, putting together and delivering over 50 care packages of sanitary products and preserved food to homeless people in Coventry city centre.
