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Samuel Hussain

Computer Science undergraduate at the University of Cambridge (Churchill College). I like building things at the intersection of machine learning and software engineering.

Apr 2026

Europe Terminal 2026 - Finalist, 2nd place

Citadel | Citadel Securities

Won a $2,500 prize placing 2nd in an invite-only, week-long algorithmic game theory competition. Built an adaptive attack-and-defence Python strategy with a team collaborating across Europe via Git.

Apr 2026

Spring Insight Programme - Technology

Visa

Conceptualised and pitched a proposal using Visa's API infrastructure to integrate an AI prediction model for real-time credit-score impact visualisations within banking apps.

Aug 2023

IT Infrastructure & Systems Intern

Ideal Standard

Administered Windows Server environments for secure cross-branch data exchange; configured a Squid web proxy on Ubuntu Server and cut cached-content retrieval times by 60% through server-side caching refinements.

2025 - Present

University of Cambridge, Churchill College

Computer Science, BA (Hons)

Modules include Foundations of CS (OCaml), OOP (Java), Software & Security Engineering, Databases, Algorithms I & II, Machine Learning & Real-World Data, Operating Systems, and Digital Electronics.

Outside of lectures I do many things, from playing college football and competitive programming all the way to chess!

2018 - 2025

Hymers College

A Levels - A*A*A*A*

Mathematics, Further Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry. UKMT SMC Gold and Senior Kangaroo (#1 in college for both), Smailes Goldie Award for Best Application of Mathematics, BPhO Computational Challenge.

languages Python, Java, OCaml, SQL, LaTeX
ai & data LLMs & Generative AI, RAG pipelines, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib
tools Git & GitHub, Linux, Django, Streamlit, SQLite

I'm currently looking for software engineering. If you'd like to chat - about a role, a project, or anything else - my inbox is always open.