# Kapil Pau > Software Engineer at Meta Location: London, England, United Kingdom Profile: https://flows.cv/kapilpau A combination of strong programming, design and testing skills obtained in industry and education with a proven track record of motivational and leadership qualities. Experienced in implementing efficient working/training systems and high client care standards. Able to display maturity and balance while working in highly demanding team environment. Graduated from QMUL with First Class Honours. Currently programming in NodeJS, Golang, Rustlang, Deno, Bash, Java, SQL, HTML, CSS, PHP and Perl. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2024 – Present Working as a part of the Quest for Business and Meta Horizon Developer teams to enable businesses and education institutions to use Meta Quest devices, as well as those developing for the Quest ecosystem. I have enhanced the insights platform that allow admins to monitor the health of their device fleet, as well as expanding the proactive alerting to cover these insights. Additionally, I have played a key role in the expansion of Managed Meta Accounts, with a particular focus on onboarding and education, and navigation between products. I have worked on high-impact projects enabling Horizon worlds creators and large scale enterprise developers to build for the Meta Horizon ecosystem, most high profile being Meta Horizon Hyperscape. In addition to feature support, I have been especially commended for building an inclusive and welcoming working environment for those around me, and ensuring my teams have felt more connected and supported. ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | London, England, United Kingdom Lead developer on an internal collaborative project idea registry tool, built using AWS service, ReactJS and a Python backend. Leading backlog refinement, project design sessions and sprint planning, as well as architecture planning and code reviews. Support and mentor junior engineers and apprentices, interview candidates and maintain team morale through organising socials and meetups. Single-handedly organised a summer social for a 500 person organisation, and received positive reviews, including from directors. Leading the design, planning and development of two business critical tools, including an audit tool working in the order of 1000s of transactions per minute, with a focus on security and scalability. These efforts involve requirements gathering, viability assessments and technical design document writing, as well as headcount requirement analysis, stakeholder update reporting and mentoring junior members of the team. Working within the Region Services UK organisation, I worked with two service teams to automate their, previously manual, processes to build their service into new AWS regions. This work leveraged an internal, Ruby based Infrastructure as Code framework, and build orchestration systems. For one of these services, this work reduced their build process from at least 8 person weeks, to two calendar weeks with no manual effort required from the team. During my second month, I automated a process to back-up engineers' cloud VM development environments to an S3 bucket. The exist process to do this was manual and complex, through years of Wiki updates and other documentation attachments, and would take two days to complete. Using Python and Boto, I built a command line tool that does the entire process in 20 minutes, and it has been adopted as the official mechanism for engineers to use globally. ### Software Engineer @ IBM Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Full-Stack, Kubernetes and Cloud Engineer in the Cloud Pak for Integration, responsible for Automation assets (formerly the Asset Repository). Automation assets is a capability that enables users to share reusable assets between products in the Pak, as well as their colleagues, and is built using technologies such as Node.js, specifically the Express.js and React frameworks, CouchDB and OpenShift/Kubernetes. Lead developer for the Automation assets' Kubernetes Operator, which is written in Golang, to extend the Kubernetes API and provide more control over the resources deployed during the installation, using a combination of AWS and IBM Cloud for development and testing. Four months after joining the team, led the rewrite of the backend microservice, which reduced the average request time by 67%. Work closely with product/offering management on developing the product roadmap, and on client briefings and support calls, where a strong knowledge-base and communication skills enable fast resolution of mission critical issues. Mentor new starters through onboarding, and continue to act as a career and technical mentor to a number of interns and recent graduates, as well as mentoring university students looking to enter the industry. Throughout the COVID-19 lockdown, maintained team morale running regular virtual social events, including a fancy dress contest at Halloween and a Secret Santa at Christmas, which was recognised by senior technical and business leaders. ### Coach and Manager @ QMRFC's O2 Touch Centre Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 Plan, coach and deliver training sessions for the O2 Touch Centre with the Rugby Football Union. Additionally responsible for social media presence and website management to engage and build the membership base. ### Student Demonstrator @ Queen Mary University of London Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | London, United Kingdom Assisting the module organiser in labs. Helping students and marking their work. ### Software Development University Placement Student @ IBM Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Hursley I worked as a member of the IBM Integration Bus infrastructure team analysing and debugging any failures in builds and tests for the systems on multiple platforms. The core role involved ensuring that over 1000 machines perform reliably and consistently. It has also involved setting up and managing cloud based infrastructure and build orchestration in the form of OpenStack, Docker and Jenkins, and the use of systems such as packer and ansible to automate the creation of cloud vms. As well as this, I have been involved in developing a monitoring system for these machines and using Slack to alert channels of issues and positive news, using Kibana, Graphana and Elasticsearch. During my time at IBM, I have undertaken a number of additional projects such as creating a tool for children to create text based chatbots as a way of teaching them about machine learning, using IBM Cloud (Watson Conversation, Watson Discovery, Watson Tone Analyser and Watson Text-to-Speech/Speech-to-Text), NodeJS and Node-Red to create audio-based chatbots which can have a conversation about sports teams, making a remote control car voice activated, aiding in the establishment of the Hursley Maker Space where people can come in their lunches and evenings to create projects, and the creation of a queue system for the 3D printer in the maker space. I have represented IBM at a number of conferences, including doing a talk at Devoxx London ### Participant @ 3 Day Startup Queen Mary Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | London, United Kingdom Applied and was accepted as a participant for 3 Day Startup Queen Mary, a 72-hour intensive learning-by-doing entrepreneurship program Worked on team of 3 to create and pitch an idea for an app that prevented users from drunk texting specific contacts ### Cisco Switch Up IoT Challenge Winner @ Cisco Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Jose The competition was to create an Internet of Things product which solved a social or environmental problem. I lead my team throughout the competition to both develop the concept and pitch it at the final. As a result of winning the competition, I was flown out to San Jose and given tours around the campus, getting to meet lots of senior engineers and developers. ### University Rugby Activator @ Rugby Football Union Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | London, United Kingdom Working with the Queen Mary, University of London Student's Union and the Rugby Football Union to get new players playing contact rugby. This is achieved through running a number of free events for anyone to turn up to which start at a touch level and progress through to different levels on contact. The role works and improves my coaching and playing abilities as well as organisation, planning and logistics. ### President @ Queen Mary Students' Union Photography Society Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Queen Mary, University of London The role involved working with my fellow committee members and the Students' Union to encourage people to get involved in the society and the events that we organised as well as acting as an agency for our members, with people regularly asking for us to send photographers to events. ### Summer NCS Cohort Leader @ Essex Boys and Girls Clubs Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Planning, leading and mentoring a team of 15 teenagers through a range of programmes including challenging outward bounds residential and helping them learn valuable life lessons and develop soft skills. Provided inspiration and encouragement to take them out of their comfort zone and challenged them to participate in new activities which they may have never otherwise tried. Received bespoke training in working with young people and working with autism, as well as gaining qualifications in: First Aid, Food Hygiene and Child Safeguarding. ### Data Analyst @ Fabriq Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 EnergyDeck is a leading IoT, SaaS analytics provider whose clients include Cisco, Total and Schneider Electric. Worked closely with CTO to design and programme (in Python) machine-learning based data analysis methods and processes. Created and developed testing modules which allowed the development team to improve the robustness of the platform. Researched and evaluated various data gathering and analysis methods to identify process improvements. Responsible for beta testing the new website. ### Intern @ Lotus F1 Team Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Worked with the various teams within the factory learning the processes that are undertaken to produce a complete, race-worthy car. Worked in the scale modelling department where new design ideas are tested and built a section of a front wing in the clean room using carbon fibre. Dismantled, cleaned, reassembled and tested multiple clutches which went onto the race cars. Impressed supervisors with commitment, application and quality of work and was granted access to the race control room, watching the analysts in the headquarters assist the race team during the Hockenheimring Grand Prix. ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Queen Mary University of London ### High School in A Level New Hall School ### High School in GCSE Gosfield School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kapilpau --- Source: https://flows.cv/kapilpau JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kapilpau/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05