Hello.
My name is Mark Anson.
Work
Software Engineer at Mustard Systems Ltd (Sep 2022-current): Working primarily in Python along with SQL and a Typescript-based web stack, I am responsible for maintaining and improivng internal data management systems used by Mustard as part of their trading architecture.
Technology intern at LSEG (Jul-Aug 2021): Placed within a Java development team in ForexClear (FXC), a component of the London Clearing House, I worked to improve the resillience and effectivness of FXC's internal ssytems by building a Java tool that verified the validity of a build as compared with it's release notes. This project required use of professional development tools including JIRA, BitBucket, and Jenkins, and introduced me to new technologies such as Spring Boot and Groovy.
Intern at Tesco (Jul 2020): Within the Supporting Communities team, performed research & business analysis focused on highlighting areas where Tesco could improve its customer relationships and community activities.
Programming Tutor at Discover & Be: I tutor children of all ages in the foundations of programming and computer science.
Summer Intern at AllChange (Aug 2019): Involved in backend development at AllChange, working with Python and Dash to solve complex technical challenges.
Projects
Masters Dissertation: The paper written for my final year project, it features an exploration of the effect of concept drift on the Android malware classification pipeline.
VR Navigation - Mesh based techniques paper: A paper written as part of a group project module in the third year of my degree. It discusses a new group of techniques that aim to be a novel solution to the problem of navigation in virtual enviroments. In general, the techniques used a 2D mesh of an enviroment to change movement scaling between different areas. My main contribution to the project was the "Lattice Crush" technique which is detailed in the paper.
Systems Engineering - reportQuery: Project as part of degree 2nd year. Using a BERT model to query and extract useful information from unstructured text.
Patient Call Lists: A web app to create "call lists" of patients - for UCL FHIR Hack 2020. Made with flask. I was one of the 25 winning projects. Microsoft published a blog post about the event, which can be found here.
Tutoring
I regularly tutor pupils in computer science/programming. You can view my agency profile here.
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