Since May of 2018, I have been working as a software engineer at Xilnx. My role at the company is primarily to aid in the development of Runbench. Although I have recently been moved to the Onload driver team.So far, I have managed to accomplish some success within the company. This includes the following:

• Responsible for designing the X3 emulator shim, for an upcoming product.
• Responsible for developing core features such as Onload's packet from the future API and AF_XDP support.
• Responsible for maintaining core Jenkins infrastructure used for testing, building and packaging of onload/tpcdirect.
• Aided development of TCPDirect, a cut down version of Onload aimed for finance markets. Developed features such as enabling source specific multicast support.
• Managed to improve/introduce unit test coverage by 50%. This project I have been rather proud as so far it has been the stepping stone needed to improve reliability of the project. It has also been one of the keystones for migrating the company code base to Python 3.
• Responsible for redesigning and documenting the test RxeqNewRunbench. This test was designed primarily to check compatability of a pair of NICs with various cables and switches. Without this test, the company would not have been able to make the 18.2 target.
• Responsible for testing the UEFI capabilities and modules for the NIC.
• Improved the documentation practices within the company by introducing sharelatex company wide.
• Improved the house network website bandwidth by 50%.

As part of my course, I was required to partake in a 6 month placement in industry. For these 6 months, I worked at a security company present in London. This experience was enriching as I had the opportunity to build a variety of projects for the company. This includes the following projects:

• The first project that I was responsible for was designing a customer portal. This portal had some unique security requirements as it needed to serve the company's protected IP. For this project, I made use of various web tools including Bootstrap, NodeJS + Express and PostgreSQL. These were all hosted in a microservice system spread across various ESXi VMs. This project presented some interesting challenges in regards to client and server side authentication.
• The second project undertaken at the company was a project designed to monitor and authenticate users based on keyboard patterns. This project was a useful experience in exploring some various debugging capabilities within Linux. For example, I learnt how to create and utilise shared libraries and LD_PRELOAD. Similar capabilities were explored using strace and ptrace. In addition, this task was useful for learning how to build projects that integrate with wider and larger projects. For example, I learnt how to use scons, the capabilities of named pipes in Linux and various challenges with serializing and deserializing data between C/C++. Additionally, I learnt how to use Google's C++ test framework to express the effectiveness of my program. Similarly, this project made extensive use of pthreads which gave a unique insight into how to design and overcome concurrency issues within C/C++.
• The third and final project was to improve a internal time-tracking utility used within the company. The program was designed in C# on Windows so gave some unique perspectives and challenges which I hadn't faced before. I improved the code base by adding additional functionality such as checking whether a user is away from the keyboard. I also learned how to design UIs in XAML/WPF.

For more information about this internship, please contact me personally for references.

• Awarded the Management and Business for Computing Engineers Second Prize for successfully leading a group of 7 to develop a business plan and presentation.
• I was also awarded the Corporate Partnership Programme Award for outstanding achievement in my Individual project. My thesis can currently be found on the departmentwebsite under the academic year 2016-17. Below are the list of courses that I studied during my time at Imperial.

At school, I was awarded A*AAA in my A-levels in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Chemistry. I also achieved 2A*, 6As and 2Bs for my GCSEs.
I was also active in Badminton, Rugby and Cricket. After school, I helped build a Caterham 7 as part of the kitcar society.