Martin 🚀

Software Engineer | London, UK

BSc Computer Science (Hons) | University of Edinburgh ‘24




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Publications

AfriQA Publication

AfriQA: Cross-lingual Open-Retrieval Question Answering for African Languages

- Co-authored publication focusing on question answering systems for African languages.

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Work Experience

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Software Engineer | Thought Machine

January 2025 ->> | London, UK

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SWE Intern | Google

June 2022 – September 2022 | Google, UK

  • Building Finite State Transducers (FST) for Gboard. FST constructed from a ruleset and enables transliteration from Latin alphabet to Malayalam during keyboard input. See section under transliteration here.
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Research Assistant

December 2021 - April 2022 | The University of Edinburgh

  • Built machine translation models as part of the Institute for Language Cognition and Computation on an EU funded translation project. Project was centred around the Firefox translations pipeline.
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STEP Intern

June 2021 – September 2021 | Google, UK

  • Collaborated on text processing pipeline for the Android Text Classifier Service, enabling multi-language support for your trusty [Smart Linkify](https://research.google/blog/the-machine-learning-behind-android-smart-linkify/) feature in Android.
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Workshop Coordinator

June 2020 – May 2021 | The University of Edinburgh, UK

  • Designed C and Arduino projects for bi-weekly workshops.
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Assistant Android Developer

Nov 2019 – May 2020 | Edinburgh, UK

  • Designed UI in Adobe XD, implemented in Java using Android SDK, optimized for Android 10 gestures, and intergrated Realm DB for image storage/retrieval.


Skills

Strong: Python Java Dart/Flutter HTML CSS Git
Familiar: C++ Kotlin JavaScript/TS Scala PHP
Other: Bash/Shell Linux Docker Kubernetes NGINX Machine Learning Machine Translation NLP Android Django

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