During my placement year at Orbis Investments, I worked as a Software Developer in the Investment Technology team, focusing on improving internal tools and services. I automated the creation of a Backstage service catalog across ~200 repositories, upgraded 30+ services to .NET 8, and refactored core research systems to handle data more reliably. My main project was building Permissions Viewer, a React + .NET app that transformed raw permission data into a searchable, visual interface, improving efficiency for internal teams. I also audited and remediated legacy services in AWS/Terraform.
Conducted a landscape analysis of 190k+ education research publications using SQL (BigQuery), writing 30+ queries to extract insights on funding, researchers, and trends. Improved data accuracy by resolving nested arrays, inflated figures, and missing values, and visualized results in Google Sheets before delivering a 5,000-word research report.