SwarnimMandal

I grew up in Pokhara, Nepal, studied Computer Science in India, and moved to London in early 2025 for an MSc in Software Engineering at the University of West London, which I finished with a Distinction in July 2026.

My first proper engineering job was a year at Aankhijhyal Technologies, in a team of fifteen to twenty people building React front ends and Django REST APIs for a US healthcare client. That year taught me that most of the work starts after the first version ships: tracking down slow queries (we cut load times on key pages by around 12%), fixing bugs that run from the front end through the API to the database, and getting releases out safely through CI. Before that I designed interfaces as an intern at Eversoft and cleaned data and built small predictive models at Scertus.

Since moving to London I've built two things I'm proud of, and you can try both on this site. One is an AI phone receptionist, a real-time voice agent that answers a business's missed calls, works out what the caller needs and emails it to the owner, with more than a hundred automated tests behind it. The other is ARES PdM, my dissertation: deep-learning models that predict when engines and drone components will fail, with a dashboard that shows which sensors drove each prediction.

Alongside that I work front of house at the Oriental Club, a London private members' club, and part-time in business development for Elite Professionals Team, where I've won staffing contracts with hotels like the InterContinental at The O2 and the Marriott at Marble Arch. Neither is an engineering job, but both have taught me things engineering needs: writing procedures that other people actually follow, living in tools like Salesforce, SevenRooms and Cloudbeds every day, and sitting across from a client to work out what they really need.

What I'm after now is a junior or graduate role building software, whether that's backend, full-stack or AI applications, where I can keep shipping things people use.