Adam Vakar.

Software engineer focused on backend systems and applied AI.

I’m a third-year software student at TUS Athlone. I spent summer 2026 as a software engineering intern at Ericsson R&D and received a return offer. Now I’m looking for a 2027 internship in software engineering or machine learning.

See my workRésumé GitHub

Experience

Ericsson R&D

Software Engineering Intern · May to September 2026

Return offer received

I worked on internal tooling and test automation for Cloud RAN: Python agent tooling, Java test utilities, and migrating test suites that run against physical radio hardware.

  • Python · migration tooling

    20% fewer incorrect migrations

    I added validation checks and transformation improvements to an internal agent-based migration pipeline, so bad output was caught before it reached the next stage.

  • Java · test framework

    Flaky waits replaced

    I replaced hardcoded Thread.sleep() calls with one reusable polling utility. Tests now wait for a condition with a timeout, which removed a recurring cause of random failures.

  • Python · agent orchestration

    Adopted across the department

    I was selected for a small team building an orchestrator for about five coordinated agents. It replaced a manual multi-step workflow and became the department’s standard.

I also wrote test classes and shared helpers to migrate legacy Cloud RAN validation suites, fixed two defects in the test framework, and set up a review with its owners to resolve the rest.

Selected work

Personal projects and hackathon builds. Each one has a page with the problem, the decisions behind it, and the evidence.

Backend · Personal project

GoBank case study

A small bank in Go that keeps every balance correct when services fail.

Go tests against a real Postgres, no mocks
251
confirmed transactions lost in four database failovers
0
peak transfers in a load test, with no errors
176/s
Neo-Bank dashboard with a fictional account, balance history, and completed or rejected transfers.

Winner · Build for Ireland 2026

HomesAbove case study

Turns a walk down a main street into a ranked list of upper floors worth a council inspection.

HomesAbove officer console showing a building list, a map of central Dublin, and a facade review panel in Demo data mode.

MongoDB Student Builder Day 2026

ScamRing case study

Checks a rental listing against linked scam reports before a student pays.

ScamRing rental listing check with a demonstration risk verdict and the signals contributing to it.

Machine learning · Personal project

Mini LLM case study

A 39.1M-parameter language model I wrote and trained in PyTorch.

Parameters
39.1M
Layers
6
Attention heads
8
Context
256 tokens

2nd place · Claude Hackathon

Voxify case study

Students submit proposals and see what the university did with them.

Next.js · React · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS

In progress

StudyPilot case study

Turns a learning goal into a roadmap, daily focus blocks and answers from your own notes.

FastAPI · PostgreSQL · pgvector · React

Hackathons and recognition

Placings and selections from hackathons and Kaggle, each with what came out of it.

  • Winner

    1stof 40+ teams

    Build for Ireland 2026

    OpenAI × Give(a)Go × Dogpatch Labs, Dublin AI Week

    We built HomesAbove in one day, as a team of two.

    HomesAbove

  • 2ndin the Governance Track

    Claude Hackathon

    Trinity College Dublin

    Voxify, from an empty repository to a working demo in one weekend.

    Voxify

  • Top 8of 40 teams

    GTM Hackathon

    Presented to judges from OpenAI.

  • Selectedone of about 50 student engineers in Ireland

    Google Student AI Hackathon 2026

    With a team of four, I built GoPlan in six hours: a Gemini app working with live flight, hotel and pricing APIs, with permissions for which traveller can trigger each call. We pitched it to Google engineering leaders.

  • Selectedfrom more than 500 applicants

    MongoDB Student Builder Day 2026

    Dublin AI Week

    Our team built ScamRing: rental listings checked against linked scam reports.

    ScamRing

  • Expert

    Top 2.4%in Kaggle’s Datasets ranking

    Kaggle Datasets

    Datasets Expert tier on Kaggle.

  • Also took part in

    • ETH Dublin 2025
    • NASA Space Apps Challenge
    • Craicathon
    • Claude Code Hackathon
    • Google Algorithms Workshop 2026
    • Agentic AI Workshop 2025

About

I build things to understand how they break.

GoBank started with a question: what does a customer see if the database dies halfway through a transfer? Most of my projects start with a question like that. I build the system, break it on purpose, and measure what happens.

I also like building with other people. I founded the Computer Science Society at TUS, which now has over 40 members and runs workshops, member projects and small hackathons. I started a community of over 100 Ukrainian students in Ireland, and I’m the elected class representative for my year.

Away from code, I write novellas.

Education

Technological University of the Shannon

BSc (Hons) Software Design with Artificial Intelligence for Cloud Computing. September 2024 to May 2028 (expected).

Year 1
76% First Class Honours
Year 2
84% First Class Honours

Dean’s List in both completed years.

Course details

Community

Leadership

  • Computer Science Society, TUS Athlone

    Founder and president · 40+ members

    Workshops, including machine learning sessions, member projects and small hackathons.

  • Ukrainian students in Ireland

    Founder · 100+ members

    A community for Ukrainian students across the country.

  • Class representative

    Elected by my year group at TUS

Toolkit

Technical skills

  • Languages
  • Backend and data
  • AI and machine learning
  • Infrastructure
  • Python
  • Go
  • Java
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • SQL
  • FastAPI
  • gRPC
  • Kafka
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB Atlas
  • Redis
  • PyTorch
  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • pgvector
  • Embeddings
  • Multi-agent systems
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • AWS
  • Jenkins
  • Git and CI

Hiring for 2027?

I’m looking for software engineering and machine learning internships in Ireland. Email is the quickest way to reach me.

adamvakar11@gmail.com