BioSecure — KYC for Biotech

KYC for biotech: safer DNA ordering + biosecurity screening workflows; auditable triage + verification.

Impact: 1st place (London winner) at BlueDot Impact × Apart Research Def/Acc Hackathon. The concept is now being built as safely.bio by Phil Palmer, my hackathon teammate.

Anti-Sophistry — Agentic Coding with Enforced TDD

Agentic coding workflow with enforced test-driven development (TDD): tests-first, test-gated changes, regression protection.

Impact: Built at Google DeepMind Hackathon

Thesis — General RNA Transformer (PoC)

Proof-of-concept transformer + diffusion pipeline for de novo mRNA sequence design (non-native proteins).

What's cool: Self-proposed; GPU-accelerated training; sequence quality & constraint checks.

Use cases: Rapid design space exploration, candidate ranking.

Mapping mRNA Therapeutics — LLM-Enabled Clinical Database

Developed an LLM-pipeline to filter, classify, and quantify clinical trial data on mRNA therapeutics.

Impact: Replaced a $50k proprietary access database with a lightweight, reproducible research tool.

GitBud — Simple GitHub Helper

Lightweight full-stack tool to keep your GitHub streak alive with safe, transparent commits.

What's cool: Schedule rules, repo whitelist, audit log.

TSA Lane — AI-Enabled Admissions Prep

Focused prep for Oxford TSA (and beyond) with calibrated practice, analytics, and pacing.

What's cool: Adaptive question selection; skill-level analytics.

Thomas the Orb — Bayesian Prior Elicitation

Turn expert intuitions into distributions, diagrams, and functions for decision-making.

Status: Alpha; not currently connected to API — reach out for backend access.

European Defence Tech Hackathon London

Autonomous subterranean navigation system for confined-space exploration.

Impact: 2nd place (February 2026)

Acoustic Grid — Drone Localisation (EU DefTech)

Lightweight acoustic + visual pipeline for UAV detection and localisation.

What's cool: Runs on modest hardware; robust to noise; field-deployable.

Albed.io / Neural-LAM — Geoengineering Co-pilot

Graph Neural Network to simulate weather impacts of geoengineering interventions.

What's cool: 3–57h forecasts; interactive timeline viz; scenario comparisons.

European Defence Tech Hackathon, October 2026

Honourable mention

Built an interceptor concept against jet-powered Geran drones. Now being developed as a startup.

European Defence Tech Hackathon London, June 2026

Highest-scored project

Built a geotemporal fusion engine. Ineligible for the prize on a technicality unrelated to the build.

BlueDot Impact AI × Bio Hackathon, April 2026

Judge

Judged biosecurity tools built over a weekend at LISA, London. Organised by BlueDot Impact, the leading talent accelerator for beneficial AI and societal resilience (10,000+ alumni).

European Defence Tech Hackathon London, February 2026

2nd place

Built an autonomous subterranean navigation system for confined-space exploration.

def/acc Hackathon — BlueDot Impact × Apart Research

1st place, London — main prize (£3,000)

The largest def/acc hackathon to date, organised by BlueDot Impact with Apart Research. Built BioSecure — KYC for the customers behind DNA synthesis orders. The concept is now being built as safely.bio by Phil Palmer, my hackathon teammate.

European Defence Tech Hackathon 2025

3rd place (team of two, 200+ participants)

Acoustic + visual UAV localisation PoC.

SOTA Human Enhancement Hackathon 2025

1st place (£1000)

Built Thomas — Bayesian prior elicitation tool.

ElevenLabs × Founder House Hackathon 2025

1st place (Omi Prize)

Real-time speech → social-insights pipeline + UI.

SOTA Geoengineering Hackathon 2025

Technical Excellence Prize (£500)

Neural-LAM: lightweight GNN for intervention scenarios.