Bhawick Jain

📍 London, England, UK
📧 bhawick[at]gmail[dot]com
🌐 bhawick.com

I am a software engineer with a Masters in Aerospace Engineering. I am described as highly personable, technical and a compelling communicator in cross-functional teams. I have experience in designing REST APIs and using Postgres SQL. Having led DevOps practices, I am passionate for developer velocity. My experience is multi-disciplinary, as a former Automation Consultant and Research Contractor I have customer-focussed on-call experience and an openness to be adaptable when solving problems. I write testable code in Python and Typescript, and am keen to apply them at my new role.

🧶 Personal Projects

Currently working on passion projects, around maps, graph networks and personal tools. I am learning about WebGL and rust to harness hardware acceleration and Web Assembly (WASM). I love container-based, test-driven, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) and use Docker, Jest and Cypress development workflows. I am also working through a Data Structures and Algorithm’s course by Colt Steele.

I am also working on my own projects. I have an interest in algorithms, spatial computing, and find problems towards climate, urban living and knowledge management energising. I have authored:

  open to see earlier projects

• a multi-user interactive GPS position sharing site with a topic-based PubSub architecture
  
• a typescript high-order generics library with GitHub Actions automated test and deploy
• a link cleaner to get a direct link from a google drive or GitHub public link to a file
  
• a react experiments page to explore CSS, and good design principles
  
• an interactive grid based on matrices
  

I also maintain a public cheatsheet and solved computing problems repositories on GitHub to capture my coding journey.

📦 Leadership and Experience

Self-taught Software Engineer Present

Currently using Typescript and Python to create full-stack applications. I have two active projects currently in development:

Projects
Grocery Tracking App
TfL Live Map

In addition, I am using and recently started using to create reproducible development environments. For quality control, I am using and a range of linters, as well continuously deploying pull requests into production.

Beyond this, I am learning Rust to eventually write WebAssembly-, and wgpu-based modules to integrate in the web apps. I think using hardware acceleration to create compelling client-side features is an exciting area.

💻 Trainee Software Engineer @ Academy.tech April 2022 — Present

Among the 1% to be offered a full-time, fully-funded, intensive programme to collaborate and develop software engineering and leadership skills. I strive to build intuitive tools that provide high Developer (DX) and User Experience (UX).

As a strong team member, I have built several full stack (PERN) applications in teams of 2-4 people. My leaderships involve running daily stand-ups, managing feature / bug tickets on Kanban boards, holding team retros and designing mock-ups on Figma.

I love good writeups, and grow my colleagues technically by answering Linux, Git, Command-Line, React, PostGres, Typescript, Node Express, and AWS Workspace community questions in Slack and Discord channels. Presented 3 times in our community tech comms.

🤖 Automation Consultant @ Sitel Group (previously Symphony Ventures) Nov 2018 — April 2022

Integral member of cross-functional scrum teams with direct communication lines to customers. With Python, C# and Robotic Process Automation (RPA), I delivered solutions to save hundreds of Full-Time Employee backlogs. I was the main contact for Azure DevOps and developed agile strategies for new projects. I managed client expectations when on-call and championed test-driven RPA.

C# Developer for UiPath Custom Activities Dec 2021 — Apr 2022

• Developed and Published two paid UiPath custom packages written in C#
  
• Developed a JSON Manipulation Activity Package, exposing the C# Newtonsoft.JSON library
  
• Developed a DateTime Converter exposing the C# DateTime library.
  
• Created bash scripts to continuously compile and package my changes.
  
• Created UiPath Test Cases to quickly test changes
  
• Wrote detailed internal documentation for future teams
  

Azure DevOps Internal Lead Jan 2020 — Apr 2022

• Nominated to present on the All Hands talk to demonstrate Azure DevOps best practices at a Top UK BPO for its Global Automation Department to technical and non-technical audiences.
  
• Led a Workshop to introduce Azure DevOps with Lego as a DevOps problem.
  
• Authored best practices in git branching and pull request handling for UiPath Development.
  

RPA Developer Nov 2018 — April 2022

• Developed a two major automations freeing 7 Full Time Employee Staff time
  
• The impact of my automations was cited in an UiPath press release
• Worked in agile scrum teams with direct collaboration with users, running demos every week.
  
• Wrote Python scripts to create mock testing data, significantly reducing bugs in the first production release.
• My automations reduced Mean Time to Respond from 10 Business days to 3 hours in the client complaints and escalations department.
  
• Demonstrated excellent communication ability across technical and non-technical audiences.
  
• Resolved 40 tickets and introduced major code quality improvements in over 10 production automations during my role in Incidents and Reliability Management.
  
• Delivered 9 medium-high complexity processes involving computer vision, OCR to automate legacy applications in the healthcare sector.
  

🔬 Research Intern @ ACCIS, University of Bristol Nov 2016 — Sep 2017

Carbon Fibre Recycling Demonstrator

• Designed and built a low-cost working composite recycling demonstrator.
  
• Met stringent requirements for standard air travel security and robustness so it can be taken to material science conferences abroad.
  
• Met and exceeded requirements within a set deadline.
  
• Made creative innovations; compacting and simplifying design by use of advanced 3D Printing technologies.
  
• Used Autodesk AutoCAD and Inventor for technical drawings and rapid prototyping.
  

Robotic Filament Winding

• Worked on robotic filament winding manufacturing techniques within the department
  
• Learnt G-Code and proprietary software to instruct the filament winding robot
  
• Published a written report on my work within the HiPerDuCT Group
  

🗞️ Education

Masters of Aerospace Engineering @ University of Bristol 2013 — 2018

• Masters dissertation in Network Science for Project Management
  
• Bachelors dissertation in Radioisotope Thermo-electric Generator (RTG) Design for CubeSats in association with the National Nuclear Laboratory
  
• Applied Numerical Methods for Aerodynamics
  
• Advanced Space Systems
  
• Dynamics of Networks
  
• Chaos and Non-Linear Dynamics
  
• Sustainable Systems
  
• Selected for a hands-on Space Elevator Project in Budapest in association with the International Space University

A-Level @ Wilson’s Grammar School 2011-2013

• Mathematics, Computing, Physics, Chemistry

GCSE @ Harris Academy South Norwood

• Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Media Studies and Graphics Design

🧰 Skills

Programming: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Bash, C#, SQL, .NET, UiPath

Infrastructure: GitHub Actions, Heroku, Netlify, Docker, Linux/Unix, Node.js, Azure Cloud

Collaboration: git cli, GitHub, Notion, Jira, Azure DevOps, figma, penpot

Science: Jupyter Notebooks, LaTeX, AutoDesk, Matlab, Simulink

Analysis: JSON, YAML, Regex, CSV, Pandas, Vim

🎈 Outside Work

Indoors

Cook and eat Japanese food with much joy 🇯🇵
I love graphics design, particularly signages in train stations 🚅 and airports 🛫

Outdoors

Climbing 🧗 (hold on isn’t that indoors 🤔)
Snowboarding 🏂 (I’m very new!)
Cycling 🚲 I love my Brompton!

Fun Fact

I was born and raised in Germany 🇩🇪, and went to school there for 13 years before moving to the UK 🇬🇧