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Ishtiaque Akbar
Software Engineer
Jun 2026 — Sep 2026
Incoming SWE Intern · Google
- Calendar Trust team.
Oct 2026 — Apr 2027
Incoming SDE Intern · Amazon
- 6 Month Placement in Prime Video & CoreTech Studios.
Sep 2025 — Mar 2026
Computer Science Lead · Manchester MedTech Society
- Led a 4 week Python and AI course for 50+ medical students, enabling teams to build healthcare focused software tools.
- Mentored hackathon teams applying data analysis and automation to clinical innovation, achieving 100% attendance.
May 2025 — Sep 2025
Undergraduate Research Assistant · University of Manchester
- Conducted NLP research on script subtitle alignment for diarisation under Prof Batista Navarro.
- Improved alignment accuracy from 73% to 81% across 62 BBC episodes using refined fuzzy matching techniques.
- Built Python tools for preprocessing, tokenization, and similarity scoring to streamline data workflows.
Apr 2025 — Apr 2026
Spring Insights
JPMorgan Chase · Deutsche Bank · Susquehanna
- Worked in a Scrum team during JPMC Code for Good, contributing to cloud based features for MCR Pathways (nonprofit partner).
- Selected from 12,500+ applicants and received a return offer for JPMC for a 2026 Software Engineering Summer Analyst role.
- Achieved 2nd highest PnL for DB in a capital flow trading simulation during Technology in Investment Banking training.
- Came 3rd in Susquehanna's sheep farming coding challenge.
Great Uni Hack
WellWorld - 1st Place Winner
Global volunteering platform with real time collaboration and an interactive 3D globe interface.
Stack: React, Globe.gl, FastAPI, Supabase, Gemini AI.
ODSC x Google Cloud Hackathon
StoryGrow - 2nd Place Winner
Agent based AI system generating illustrated stories from user input; had the chance to work with cool researchers, engineers, and salespeople from America, Germany, the UK, and Pakistan — all within 24 hours.
Stack: FastAPI, Gemini API, Next.js, Google Cloud, Firebase.
J.P. Morgan Code for Good Hackathon
PathMatch
AI guided onboarding and mentor matching platform for a UK nonprofit.
Stack: React, Django, Gemini API, SQLite.
Systems
Linux Scheduler Latency
C library measuring Linux scheduler wake up latency and jitter under contention.
Stack: C, pthreads, CLOCK_MONOTONIC_RAW.
Contact
Let's build something memorable.
Email: akbarishtiaque@gmail.com
Location: United Kingdom · Open to remote