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Faheem Saleem

12 month internship @ Thales | BSc Computer Science with Placement Year

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Thales experience

My internship at Thales

SI&T Engineer Software Development 12-month placement

As a Systems Integration and Testing (SI&T) Engineer during my 12-month placement at Thales, a global leader in defence and security, I honed skills in ensuring software system reliability within complex engineering environments. I later transitioned to a 50% software development role, gaining diverse experience in both integration and software engineering.

400+ test procedures completed
200+ Jira tickets raised
50% software dev role

Key Contributions

  • Testing & validation: Completed 250+ procedures on complex integrated systems and analysed results with test management tools.
  • Integration & automation: Supported software integration, raised 200+ Jira tickets, and built a Python release-monitoring script.
  • Collaboration: Worked in Agile teams, mentored new starters, and helped keep system updates on track.
  • App development & troubleshooting: Built an Android inventory app and resolved network/configuration issues.

Skills & Proficiencies

Technical Linux, Python, Kotlin, Java, Bash, YAML
Tools Jira, Doors, VMware, Excel, Squish IDE, Ansible
Engineering Testing, integration, QA, UML, configuration control
Soft skills Communication, problem-solving, initiative, mentoring

"A genuine, obvious enthusiasm for working with computers and software is a real asset. Clearly someone who has built a reputation in a short time of being a reliable asset to the project."

- Line Manager

"You have been a valuable member of the team and you have truly contributed towards the delivery of critical systems to the customer."

- Matrix Manager

"I was really impressed with what you did with the app development and see that you could be (are) a really good software developer. I think that software development will be where your future in Thales belongs"

- Matrix Manager

"Friendly quick learner that quickly integrated and became one of the main points of contact for the SI&T team. He became well integrated into the company building a wide network amongst other interns, developers and senior developers, graduates and more; making him a good fit for the company."

- Apprentice

"Efforts you've made to improve on the tools and processes applied, and your enthusiasm to learn and apply more SW skills - this is a real strength and something I think you should continue to highlight and leverage in your career as you move forward."

- Functional Manager

"Faheem has fitted into the team and interfaced with other teams very well. This is due to his enthusiasm and willing to engage with not only his team but others he comes into contact with. I would be happy to work with Faheem in the future should the opportunity arise."

- A cool guy :)

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Full-Stack App Developer & SI&T Engineer

Completed a 12-month placement at Thales as an IVVQ Engineer, now finishing my BSc in Computer Science.

5+ years of experience in software development, Team leader with strong leadership skills gained through hands-on projects, Developed Android applications with 50K+ downloads and building web projects, including this portfolio. Skilled in project planning, testing and documentation

I have a proven ability to translate ideas into functional applications across mobile, web, and embedded systems using Arduino.

Flagship project

Statics — VALORANT companion app

Kotlin MVVM Material 3 Expressive Firebase Riot API

Statics is a full companion app for Riot's FPS, VALORANT — what began as a simple stats checker has grown over 3+ years into a polished, Material 3 Expressive app, built solo on a clean MVVM architecture. It pulls live data straight from the Riot APIs to track your matches, rank, store and loadouts, and layers a whole social network, wishlist alerts and home-screen widgets on top — working just as well for console players as it does on PC.

50K+ downloads to date
v5.21 actively shipping
10+ languages supported

Free · Android · grab the latest APK straight from GitHub Releases.

Material 3 Expressive

A ground-up redesign with dynamic colour, springy motion, predictive-back gestures and haptics — themed per-account from your equipped player card.

Statics Social

A built-in community: a global chat with message reactions, a "looking for game" board, public profiles and friend requests — all powered by Firebase.

Live match tracking

See agents, ranks and party info the moment you load in, with full match history, rank history and an interactive round-replay minimap.

Loadout studio

Browse and equip skins, sprays, cards, titles and buddies in a full-screen picker with collection-completion bars, plus saveable loadout presets and a randomiser.

Home-screen widgets

Glanceable widgets for your daily store, friends' activity, current rank and win-rate — tap to jump straight into the app.

Daily shop & wishlist

Check your daily store at a glance, wishlist the skins you want, and get a heads-up the moment one lands in your shop — or even shows up in your live match lobby.

Lineups library

Thousands of ability lineups, searchable by map and agent, with inline video playback so you can learn setups without leaving the app.

Built for every platform

Whether you're on PC, Xbox or PlayStation, Statics works for everyone — with seamless multi-account switching, silent token re-auth and localisation across 10+ languages.

My other projects

A showcase of my work in different domains.

Timeline

Where it all began

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