I'm a software developer, motorsport enthusiast, and hobbyist engineer from the UK!
I currently work as a Junior Software Engineer at Aston Martin F1 Team, as part of the Control Systems department.
Previously, I spent 18 months working at Protirus delivering data loss prevention solutions, primarily to large banks
One of the best ways to contact me regarding my work is to connect on LinkedIn
I have an MSci (Hons) First Class in Computer Science from St Andrews
My dissertation, Blueprint Design Optimisation in Factorio was presented at ModRef 2023 - check out the paper here!
It explores the use of constraint programming techniques against a combination of classical computing problems such as bin-packing, pathfinding, and network flow maximisation in the context of Factorio blueprints
Alongside this, I was electronics lead for the St Andrews Formula Student team and a driver for the BUKC team
Before uni, I got involved in a number of initiatives such as the Arkwright Engineering Scholarship and Cyber Discovery
I enjoy parkrunning, karting, and doing programming/engineering projects
I've also done my fair share of hackathons, mostly alongside @btRooke
Here are some highlights:
| When? | What? | Why? |
|---|---|---|
| Stacshack 2021 | Chrome Chats | We wanted to make a chrome extension, and the idea of every webpage being its own chatroom was really fun - so fun we got 2nd place! |
| Hack the Burgh VIII | Verble | Wordle was all the rage, and AssemblyAI was offering free API access to competitors Who doesn't want to shout random 5-letter words into a microphone in the early hours of the morning? |
| Hack the Bubble 2022 | Musical Datagram Protocol | You can't leave musical instruments lying around and expect us not to use them... |
| Stacshack 2023 | JH-Compute | You can't leave a lab full of PCs lying around and expect us not to use them... |