Akash Goswami

Backend engineer with an interest in automating things with Go and Python.

London, UK

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About

I’m a backend engineer working in cybersecurity, with over 5 years of experience in the fintech industry. My main stack is Go, Python and Javascript but I’ve used other languages in the past. I am strongly interested in automation to improve process efficiency and reduce manual errors. Tackling new challenges and finding solutions to problems is one of my core strengths.

Skills

Go
Python
JavaScript
Java
SQL
PostgreSQL
GraphQL
Cassandra
AWS
Docker

Work Experience

Snyk
London

December 2024 - Present

Software Engineer

Software Engineer in the Research and Development team at Snyk. Technologies: Go, Kubernetes

Monzo Bank
London

August 2023 - December 2024

Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer in the cybersecurity team at Monzo. Improved processes across the company through the creation, maintenance and improvement of backend microservices and addition of new unit tests, focusing primarily on internal access permissions and people systems. Technologies: Go, JavaScript, GraphQL, SQL, Cassandra

Monzo Bank
London

October 2020 - August 2023

Cybersecurity Analyst

Worked on a number of security projects. Mainly focused on improving auditing and compliance requirements across the organisation with a focus on controls reviewing internal access & permissions, rolling out application block-listing/allow-listing across the laptop estate and creating and managing internal and external cybersecurity awareness campaigns. Technologies: JavaScript, SQL

Monzo Bank
London

September 2018 - October 2020

Senior Fraud & Disputes Analyst

Investigated and resolved complex fraud cases, handled chargebacks, creating new guidance and runbooks for interal fraud processes and provided training, support and guidance to junior team members. Technologies: JavaScript, SQL

Topdeck Travel
London

October 2017 - September 2018

Website Assistant

Assisted with the development & maintenance of the Topdeck website (and a sister website backroads touring) and created numerous Python scripts to automate tasks, saving hundrends of hours of manual input. Technologies: Python, Web dev

StepUp Education
London

January 2016 - June 2018

Team Lead / Tutor / Web Developer

Took on multiple roles but spent the majority of my time as a team lead and tutor teaching Maths, English and Science

Certificates

CompTIA Security+

2022
Global certification that validates the baseline skills necessary to perform core security functions.

Education

City University of London

2015 - 2019
BSc (Hons) in Computer Science with Games Technology - 2:1

Projects

You can find more of my projects on GitHub.

monzo-blog-feed

Concurrent web scraper script that generates rss/atom and json feeds for the monzo.com blog

Side Project
Go

nomadlist

A collection of useful functions to get travel stats from your Nomadlist profile

Side Project
Go

rmbg py

A Python Flask web app with a login system, that removes backgrounds from images

Side Project
Python
Flask
Docker

Balance Sweep

Sweeps pennies from a Monzo current account balance into a designated savings pot at the end of each day

Side Project
Go

Monzo Receipt Generator

An OAuth Go client that attaches receipts to Monzo transactions using the Receipts API

Side Project
Go

Go Monzo Client

An OAuth client for accessing the Monzo API in written in Go

Side Project
Go

unserializd

An unofficial Go package for accessing the Serializd API

Side Project
Go

Automate Now

A script that fetches data from various sources and builds markdown page to automate my /now page on my website

Side Project
Go

TfL to Monzo

An API project to import TfL journey data and link it to TfL transactions on a Monzo account.

University
Python
AWS

Manual Receipt Generator

Third party client that attaches receipts to Monzo transcations using the Receipts API

Side Project
Python

Credit Card Workout

A hackathon project that calculates how long it would take to pay off a credit card balance. This project was the winner of the Capital One Change Banking for Good Challenge at Porticode 2.0 2017

Hackathon
Javascript

Go Backloggd

A Go web scraper that fetches games a Backloggd user is currently playing. Made using the colly package

Side Project
Go

Backloggd Py

A Python web scraper that fetches games a Backloggd user is currently playing

Side Project
Python

You Got This Scraper

Scrape metadata from the You Got This library website and formats it to be used within my Obsidian vault

Side Project
Python

Personal Website

A place for my thoughts, projects and more

Website
Hugo

Developer Website

A site for my more developer and technical focused posts and ideas

Website
Hugo

Links Website

My Linktree style website made using Hugo

Website
Hugo

Tesco Scraper

A simple web scraper to login into the Tesco website and obtain the current Clubcard Points balance

Side Project
Python

Unity 3D Platformer

University dissertation project demonstrating the use of randomised power-up mechanics in a 3D platformer game

University
C#
Unity

StepUp Education Website

Designed and developed website for StepUp Education, a tutoring company I worked for

Website
HTML
CSS
JS