Education, certifications, awards & publications

BEng (Hons) Software Engineering — First-Class Honours

Edinburgh Napier University · 2024 — 2026

84.4% average final grade. Dissertation: “Evaluating LLM Capabilities and Performance for Software Design Pattern Identification” — a multi-model evaluation framework executing 6,240 records across 13 design patterns, with LLMs reaching up to a 0.98 F1-score.

HND Software Development — Grade A

Edinburgh College · 2022 — 2024

Recipient of the Academic Excellence Award. Key project: an object-oriented sustainability tracking web application in Laravel using SOLID principles and TDD.

Evaluating LLM Capabilities and Performance for Software Design Pattern Identification

SSRN Journal · 2026

Three-stage benchmarking framework across four state-of-the-art LLMs and 1,560 Python snippets spanning 13 GoF design patterns. Cross-model average accuracy 98.7%, macro-average F1-score 0.988 over 6,240 evaluation records.

SSRN →DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.7029046 →

Database Designer & Developer

Oracle · 2024

Professional certification covering database design, complex SQL and PL/SQL programming.

NVIDIA AI — RAG Agents & LangChain

NVIDIA · 2025

Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems, vector embeddings and LangChain orchestration.

Anthropic AI — Claude API & Agentic AI

Anthropic · 2025

Hands-on Claude API work, agentic AI workflows and a production RAG system in Python.

University Class Award

Edinburgh Napier University · 2026

Awarded for the best academic performance on the BEng (Hons) Software Engineering programme.

Academic Excellence Award

Edinburgh College · 2024

Top-performing student, nominated by the college for outstanding achievement across all modules.