QA & Test Automation Engineer — builds test coverage by day, reverse-engineers hardware by night
Outside the day job: pulling closed IoT platforms apart until they talk to Home Assistant.
A vendor-locked WiFi fish feeder with no public API. Decompiled the Android app, reverse-engineered its 3DES-encrypted auth and undocumented cloud endpoints, and shipped a working Home Assistant custom integration — login, live status, feed schedule, and a remote feed-now command.
A Raspberry Pi runs the whole tank: water temperature, auto top-off, KH/pH dosing, and scheduled reef lighting, all wired into a custom Home Assistant dashboard with live charts and one-tap overrides.
Graduation project: a user-management application built on MVC 5 with a SOAP web service, on a course accredited by the British Computer Society.
Built a PHP web application and a PHP-based game forum as coursework.
Customer Service Quality Assurance, Foundation Certificate.
Certificate of Game Design, Ealing, Hammersmith & West London College.