Biography
Andrea was born on January 20, 1996 (Age: 29), and showed mature attributes from an early age. He attented Stella Maris College Senior School before moving to Saint Aloysius College Sixth Form for his post-secondary education. Andrea achieved A levels qualifications in Chemistry, Physics and Pure Mathematics. His tertiary eduction consisted of a B.Sc. (Hons.) Chemistry and Physics at the University of Malta, graduating with First Class Honours. This was followed with a post-graduate degree where Andrea graduated with a Distinction reading M.Sc. Advanced Computational Methods for Aeronautics, Flow Management and Fluid-Solid Interaction at Imperial College London, UK. Andrea currently works as a Solutions Engineer at a Tiktok in London. In previous roles, Andrea was a Software Engineer Manager who led Stuart's Payments Engineering team. Andrea thrives on building high-performance teams, honing effective leadership strategies, and staying at the cutting edge of emerging technologies to drive innovation and success.
Projects
Travel Itinerary planning website
Personal project
Leveraged a tech stack of NodeJS, Typescript, React, Python, AWS (Lambda, S3, Cloudfront, Elastic Beanstalk) to build freetravelplan.com that could provide a travelling/sightseeing itinerary to wherever you want to travel in the world. The backend leverages OpenAI's gpt models.
Kaggle NLP Challenge - Imperial College Algothon.
BlackRock Headquarters, London, UK
Ranked first for the individual competition and ranked in the Top 5 for the best overall idea.
- Individual responsibilities included setting up an NLP based algorithm .
- The algorithm generated a hourly/daily sentiment score based on the relevant text found in articles from Reuters. A custom dictionary was also built to generate relevant sentiment scores.
- The algorithm was paired with a LSTM model with the goal to forcast the price of a mixed stock over the next 8 months.
Research Internship at the Translational Medical Device Lab, Galway
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Research focusing on microwave ablation, with a particular focus on antenna design and performance, to achieve localised and targeted lesions in the adrenocortical glands.
- Manufacturing and testing of antennas.
- Performing experimental trails on excised tissue (ex-vivo liver, muscle and fat).
- Investigating the differences between coaxial and triaxial antennas within the aspect of microwave ablation.
- Understanding the trade offs in duration and power configurations.
- Becoming competent with CST Studio Suite 2018 for simulations focusing on microwave applications.
- Publication: Microwave Ablation Antenna for Functional Adenomas in the Adrenal Gland
Postgraduate Project
Imperial College London, London, UK
Characterisation of flows behind bluff bodies using Lyapunov Exponents and vectors.
Undergraduate Thesis
University of Malta, Msida, Malta
Modelling of Kelvin wake patterns and particle tracking within semi-closed/closed harbours.