Professional Experience
KPMG

At KPMG, I quickly assumed a leadership role on the development team, guiding various projects
as we modernised our clients' sales platforms, implemented automation for providing data insights,
and accelerated their processes with generative AI where it made sense to do so. I manage
junior members, advise on devops processes, and solution data architectures, in addition
to undertaking significant pieces of the development work myself.
One of the projects that set me apart was building an LLM wrapper over Salesforce that
provided data insights via a chat interface. It was a replica of the generative AI feature
that Salesforce themselves released a year later, so it blew away our potential clients when
we demonstrated these capabilities long before any of our competitors. Then we of course built
the real thing once it was available.
Moonlight Haptics

At Moonlight Haptics, we built a device to allow someone with visual impairment to
“see” using their sense of touch. In our backyard, we produced an electronic display
from scratch, then replaced the pixels with vibrating motors. The intensity of the vibrations
corresponded to the distance of the perceived objects, and it was precise enough to distinguish a
difference of 10 cm, 1 m away, with 90% accuracy.
What I accomplished at Moonlight Haptics was among my most extraordinary work.
You can see below a demo of the lightning-fast rescaling algorithm that feeds to the physical
display in real-time, complete with a no-look high five at the end.


Lumentum

As a data scientist, I queried big data, cleaned it, then produced hundreds of
visualisations and analyses catered for each of the teams throughout R&D. I built regression models,
conducted statistical analysis, and improved manufacturing efficiency and yield. I was particularly
adept at automating large swathes of my work to push projects faster while maintaining the
high-quality outputs I was known for.
My work also had the potential to be a single point of failure for projects involving the
company's biggest customers — it was quite a lot of responsibility!



Princeton University
Qubits, naturally, are most famous from the world of quantum computing — you may have
seen the intricate golden machines built at IBM or Google, but these computers operate at
temperatures colder than outer space. The qubits I worked with at Princeton were
room-temperature, which is one of the reasons they could be used to precisely locate and
identify individual atoms of biological molecules that would otherwise freeze.
Although engrossed deeply in the world of physics here, I was no theorist. I was, however,
able to write hyper-efficient code to conduct tens of billions of automated experiments in a
matter of months, then generate insights that let us learn much about how our qubits interacted
with each other and their environment. This led to my co-authorship on a paper which we later
published to PRX Quantum.
Halion Displays

Your colour printer, if you've ever noticed, has three ink colours: cyan, magenta, and yellow
(and often black as a fourth). Mixing them in different amounts produces any desired colour
on the page. But what if you could make an ink that changes between those three colours when
you give it an electric signal? It would allow you to make the screen on your mobile phone look
like ink on paper while it plays video. It would be gentle on the eyes at night and vibrant
outside in direct sunlight.
Working at Halion Displays was what inspired me to eventually pursue Moonlight Haptics a few
years later. The goal is brutally difficult to reach, you're forced to push the limits of
human knowledge in disparate fields you were never qualified to pursue in the first place, but
there's a small chance you can make something that can really change our lives for the better, that
only you were brave enough to try.