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Quiet Craft,
Intentional Engineering

BSc Computer Science · University of Manchester
Awab Akram

Computer Science graduate from the University of Manchester, building clinical machine-learning systems, shipping mobile platforms, and pursuing problems that reward careful thought.

Sensoji pagoda at night, Tokyo
by me

Chronology

Rainbow Bridge at sunset, Tokyo
by me
Paragliding over the Turkish coast
by me
Second paraglider view over the Turkish coast
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Unicorn Gundam at night, Tokyo
by me
2026 — Present

Open to New Roles

Manchester, UK

Actively looking for full-stack or backend engineering opportunities after finishing at Squarepoint Capital. Building and shipping personal projects in the meantime.

Aug 2025 — Mar 2026

Software Engineer (Full-time)

Squarepoint Capital, London

Built and maintained Python data ingestion pipelines at a quantitative hedge fund — collecting alternative datasets from APIs, web platforms, and vendor systems, with production support rotations and pytest suites to keep scraping jobs healthy.

Aug 2024 — Nov 2025

Software Engineer (Volunteer)

Roots Academy

Built the Roots Branches Flutter platform for an Islamic education non-profit, improving lecture resource management and integrating Firebase for real-time student engagement tracking.

Jun 2025

BSc Computer Science — First Class

University of Manchester

Graduated with First Class Honours (71%). Final-year thesis on differentiating Takotsubo Syndrome from acute coronary syndrome using a 3D CNN with Grad-CAM and SHAP explainability.

Jun 2024 — Aug 2024

UI/UX Designer & Tech Lead

Pomelo.ai

Led Figma UX research and UI design for a cross-platform mobile AI app, and evaluated AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure for system architecture — selecting AWS to reduce projected operational costs by 20%.

Sep 2022

Entered the University of Manchester

BSc Computer Science

Began BSc Computer Science. Built fundamentals across algorithms, concurrent systems, AI, NLP, computer vision, and low-level software design.

Feb 2021

Insight Programme

Spotify

Led a team of 8 competing against 7 other teams in a virtual insight programme, pitching a full marketing plan for a new movie release to Spotify executives. Achieved an 80% satisfaction rating from senior stakeholders.

2020 — 2022

A-Levels · A* A* A*

Rochdale Sixth Form College

Studied A-Level Computer Science, Maths, and Physics, achieving A* in all three. Built a self-driving car simulation using a genetic algorithm-trained neural network in C# and MonoGame as the final CS NEA project.