
right now
sde intern @ amazon, london
living room players team
prev. swe intern @ google, munich
cs & maths @ manchester
hi, i'm ish
student·software engineer
someone from preston (if you've heard of spudbros, you'll know). living in london rn, was in munich before that.
i've written code for google and amazon.
used to teach a level maths for a bit (mathswithish).
i like: prompting, travelling and long walks.
open to cool opportunities where i can learn and grow as best as possible.
github·linkedin·akbarishtiaque@gmail.com
experience
- 10/26 – 04/27sde intern · amazonnowliving room players, london. working on some telemetry stuff, more to be revealed soon.
- 06/26 – 09/26swe intern · googlecalendar trust, munich. was transferring some secondary calendars in an admin console.
- 05/25 – 09/25research assistant · university of manchestermediaquery, lining up tv scripts with subtitles.
- 04/25 – 04/26spring weeksdid insights at susquehanna, j.p. morgan and deutsche bank. also got an honourable mention at jpmc's code for good hackathon.
hackathons
- 1stwellworld · great uni hack '25planning a volunteering trip with a group is a mess of group chats and spreadsheets, so we built rooms where everyone plans it together in real time, on a 3d globe with flight routes across 80+ countries. took 1st in the google developer group track and 3rd in booking.com's, out of 200+ people.github →
- 2ndstorygrow · odsc × google cloud24 hours with a team from the us, germany, the uk and pakistan. we built a multi-agent system that turns a kid's idea into an illustrated story, with separate agents for emotion detection, planning, narrative and memory. shipped the backend on cloud run and came 2nd out of 400+.github →
education
- 09/24 – 06/28university of manchestercs & maths. also ran a python course at manchester medtech.
- 09/22 – 06/24cardinal newman collegea levels: maths a*, further maths a*, chemistry a