Samandar Mirjalilov

During this fintech internship, I gained comprehensive, hands-on experience across the full software lifecycle. I honed my backend development skills through coding, debugging, pair programming and basic database operations, while also developing a practical understanding of modern DevOps practices like CI/CD workflows, containerization, and system monitoring. Working within a fast-paced, agile, and cross-functional team was instrumental in sharpening my collaboration, communication, and problem-solving abilities. I had two mentors who allowed me to get stuck in from day one and greatly accelerated my development as a Software Engineer.

I engineered the --hide-workspace flag in Python with accompanying unit tests. I collaborated with the project maintainers through Pull Request (#10798) to achieve a successful merge. I also authored the official documentation on Pull Request (#5427). I demonstrated deep engagement by identifying and flagging three additional undocmented flags under exp show.

I slashed a 3-week manual workflow to 3 minutes by developing an automated VBA macro to aid in the STPA process. I improved analysis consistency across Safety Analysts and ported the VBA process into a bare-bones Python backend framework for the companies software engineers to use when they begin developing their own inhouse tool.

I desgined and developed an automated data pipeline to extract data from a MariaDB database and process over 5,000 client locations. This pipeline was integrated into the company's main KPI dashboard to improve operational planning through a geospatial visualisation model. My work culminated in developing an automated tracking algorithm that aided the companies lawyers in halving the debt recovery timeline for over a 1,000 cases.