Describe your career to date
At the age of six, I was introduced to the world of coding through a book on HTML given to me by my parents. This sparked a lifelong passion for both technology and education, leading me to create websites to teach children about strategy games. Pursuing my passion, I earned an MEng in Computer Science from Imperial College London where I graduated with first-class honours, having won several prizes for technical innovation. Subsequently, I pursued and completed a PhD in Computer Science from Cambridge University, with a research focus on source code analysis, machine learning, and education. My published research work has garnered over 500 citations, and I currently serve as a fellow and affiliated Computer Science lecturer at Cambridge University. In 2023, I was admitted to the OPM Harvard Business School executive education programme. Throughout my career, I have had the privilege of working for some of the leading technology companies on large-scale transformation projects, including at Google, Oracle, Goldman Sachs, eBay, and Morgan Stanley. I founded Cambridge Spark with the mission to empower organisations through education in data and AI. Our efforts have resulted in educating thousands of learners globally, serving major corporations and government organisations, and with more than £300 million confirmed value for our clients to date. With the support of the UK innovation agency, Cambridge Spark developed EDUKATE.AI, a proprietary learning platform for data skills, which received a European and UK patent (EP3719653B1) that I co-invented. In addition to my professional accomplishments, I am also the author of several best-selling software development books, including Modern Java in Action and Real-World Software Development, with a total of 60,000+ copies sold globally. My contributions to the community were recognised in 2017 when I was nominated as an Oracle Java Champion. In 2023, I became a member of the Young President Organisation.