George Sykes
Software Engineer at Connector Subsea Solutions
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGeorge Sykes is a software engineer in Leeds with eight years’ experience building robotics and data-driven systems, currently developing software for underwater robots at Connector Subsea Solutions. He holds an MEng in Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation and has progressed from leading small engineering teams to hands-on associate engineering roles, combining embedded/mechatronics insight with practical software delivery. Beyond engineering he volunteers extensively in politics and the arts—having run as a Liberal Democrat candidate, served as a data officer and campaign organiser, and sits on the board of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society—bringing clear communication and stakeholder management to technical projects. He has a track record of mentoring interns and coordinating bespoke data-collection software, and has repeatedly taken initiative by founding campus societies and modernising IT for arts organisations, showing a habit of turning civic and cross-disciplinary challenges into delivered solutions.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
A-level, Mathematics, A (predicted), A-level, Mathematics, A (predicted) at Strode CollegeGCSE, ICT, A*, GCSE, ICT, A* at Sexeys SchoolBTEC, Engineering, D*D*D*, BTEC, Engineering, D*D*D* at Strode collegeMaster of Engineering - MEng, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, First, Master of Engineering - MEng, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, First at University of Leeds
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Github Skills (200)
python10
office36510
scrapy10
crawler10
pandas10
google-cloud-monitoring10
data-science10
crawling10
data-analysis10
scraper10
manipulation10
webapi10
data-structures10
frame10
spfx9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Tasty213/gladstone-gpt
Jun 2023 - May 2024
An unofficial Liberal Democrat chatbot powered by AI, offering instant access to the party's policies.
Contributions:3 PRs, 132 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
chromadblangchainpoliticspython
Reclaim-The-Night-Leeds/PyParliment
Apr 2021 - Oct 2023
Contributions:5 releases, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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