Who I Am
Delusionally optimistic and full of energy.
Hi, I'm Aleks, an engineer with technical interests in AI/ML, R&D and building great software products. I have an entrepreneurial spirit and thrive where I can make a big impact.
I built my youtube channel a long time ago vlogging my experience as an engineering student with the hopes to help inform and inspire ambitous engineering students to reach their full potential. I fullfilled a life long dream. I want you to be able to do the same.
Fun Facts
A little more about me.
I was born in Tomaszów Lubelski, a small town in Poland, and grew up in Brixton, the heart of South London. I played semi-pro football from the age of 13 to 17 (like almost every boy in South London).
I come from a family of business owners in construction and farming. I currently live in Kraków, Poland. I came back to my motherland after a short 20-year break, haha. Kraków is great, I recommend you visit!
What I Do
Content that cuts through the noise.
On my YouTube channel I create no-fluff content on internship hunting, engineering study strategies, career navigation, and software. Every video is built around what actually moves the needle — tested, real-world advice from someone still close to the trenches.
I also build free resources — templates, guides, and tools — that I share directly with my audience.
My Experience
Where I've worked.
HSBC
I'm currently at the HSBC office in Kraków, where I'm on a graduate engineering program as a software engineer.
SumUp
I worked at SumUp as an AI Engineering intern for three months. The experience was great and intense. My team, led by Andre Perez managed to deploy an AI-powered lead generation feature to an existing app called Sidekick. SumUp has field sales reps all around the UK trying to sell SumUp hardware, which is a very difficult job, especially if you're just starting out. We built this product to help them target the right businesses using Machine Learning. Based on existing data at SumUp, we built an ML model that learned how to identify 'good' leads. We looked at everything: business age, location, price levels, estimated monthly turnover, multi-location status, and much more.
Since we scraped so much data on businesses, we also decided to summarise the information into key details using the GPT API. The result was a really cool feature that would display the best businesses for sales in a UK postcode, along with AI-summarised business insights.
Cambridge Consultants
This is a funny story because I was interviewed and joined as a hardware test engineering intern. However, I soon realised that there wasn't much hardware work happening. I was quickly put on a satellite communications client project to automate some tests. This was a legacy codebase, and since I'd never written a line of code professionally before, I lost my head a bit when I got my first ticket. Once I remembered how to use Git and figured out how to move around a Linux machine, I started to get going. Three months later, the project had a full CI/CD pipeline with over 25 automated tests up and running. Well done to me.
Another big highlight was working on a really cool internal R&D project titled 'Detecting Nanoparticle Motion in Tissue via Magnetic Spectroscopy'. It was great. I was writing signal processing code in Python, working in a wet lab to ensure my colleague used the correct biomarker concentrations, and building a simple op-amp in the electronics lab. I was back and forth with a physicist, figuring out how to build a safe coil that could output 10mT. I made a video for our live demo and even got to pitch the technology in front of the whole company. We somehow won the competition, even though the demo didn't work on the day. I guess the tech was just that cool. If you're curious about the technical details, I wrote a paper on this, and it's in my projects section.
Verizon Media (Now Yahoo)
Before I started university, I was incredibly lucky to get some work experience at a tech company in London. I had the full "tech bro" experience at 17: a MacBook Pro, a fancy building in Central London, daily stand-ups, free breakfast every day, table tennis, and pool. But seriously, I was introduced to very important concepts that I use every day, like GitHub, branching techniques, agile methodology, and writing Python code in a professional setting where people actually need to review your code. In my opinion, those were the most important three weeks of my professional life.
Why I Do It
The information exists. It just isn't accessible.
The best career advice is locked behind expensive courses, private networks, and luck. I believe that should change. Engineering is already hard enough — figuring out how to navigate the industry shouldn't be a secret.
My mission is simple: make the path clear, documented, and free for anyone willing to put in the work.