Fattah Faisal

A quick summary of who I am and how I got here.

Background

I spent five years in the UK home energy sector, working on government grants for fuel poverty and low-income households alongside property energy assessments. Starting as Assistant Manager, I moved up to Manager after two years, and grew the team from 5 to 14 over that stretch.

The people side of that job turned out to be the hardest part. Interviews, HR conversations, difficult clients, the moments where the call you make lands on someone else. There's no textbook that prepares you for those, only the doing. What helped was building systems around it: performance dashboards, clearer rules, sales funnels, job pipelines, and a lot of Excel sheets. Any repeated problem I could turn into a fixed process, I tried to build.

I started with studying commerce in college, but Data and AI kept making more sense to me, so I made the switch to computer science. I'm on track to complete my Computer Science degree with distinction across 13 modules to date. Outside university, my interest took me through bootcamps in CS fundamentals, then data analytics, and now data science.

Managing university and work at the same time was hectic, but it turned out to be the useful part. I could take what I studied and apply it straight to real problems from the job.

Experience

  • Assistant Manager to Manager

    Apex Aims LTD — May 2021 to Jul 2026

    Ran day-to-day operations for a UK home energy company. Grew the team from 5 to 14, pushed completed projects up by more than 10% a year.

  • Business Development

    Orb-Ed (Alpha Education Network) — Sep 2023 to Feb 2024

    Managed content across 70+ courses on an edtech platform, and pitched it directly to students. Contributed to a 50% jump in sales.

Education

  • BSc (Hons) Computer Science

    University of Hertfordshire — 2025 to 2026

  • Statistics and Business Analytics

    Institute of Business Management — Sep 2024 to Sep 2025

  • Higher National Diploma in Computer Science

    International College of Excellence — 2023 to 2025

Skills

  • Python
  • SQL
  • Power BI
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Data visualization

Certifications

  • Data Science — AtomCamp, in progress (2026)
  • Data Analytics — AtomCamp, 2024
  • Python for Data Science and AI — IBM, 2023
  • CS50x: Introduction to Computer Science — Harvard, 2026
  • Fundamentals of Digital Marketing — Google Digital Garage, 2021