Sarah Mitchell

Final-Year CS Student · Seeking 2026 Graduate Roles

Manchester, UK https://sarah.aboutstack.com

Final-year Computer Science student who learns by shipping. Looking for a graduate software role where I can own real work and get strong code review.

About

Final-year CS student (predicted First) at the University of Manchester. I ship things people actually use — last summer's fintech internship reached 12k weekly users. Looking for a 2026 grad role with strong code review and real ownership.

Selected work

CourseLoad — deadline tracker used by ~320 UoM students

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rent-radar — student lettings mapped with commute times

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HackMCR 2024 — building pairboard overnight

See pairboard

Experience

Software Engineering Intern

Hatch Finance (London)

Jun 2025 – Sep 2025

Built and shipped two customer-facing API endpoints on the payments platform team (Go + PostgreSQL). Reduced p95 latency on a high-traffic read path by ~18% after adding caching and tightening an N+1 query. Wrote integration tests that caught a regression before it hit staging. Pair-programmed daily; left with a merged design doc for a follow-up change.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

University of Manchester — COMP16121

Sep 2024 – Present

Run weekly lab sessions for ~40 first-year students learning Java and fundamentals. Mark coursework, hold office hours, and rewrite confusing lab notes when the same question comes up three times.

Hackathon Organiser

HackMCR Society

2023 – 2025

Helped run HackMCR 2024 (180 attendees). Owned sponsor outreach for two prizes, coordinated judging, and built the simple check-in spreadsheet → Discord bot that cut registration chaos.

Projects

CourseLoad

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Deadline tracker for uni modules

A Next.js + Django app that pulls module deadlines into one calendar with reminders. ~320 students at UoM signed up in the first term. Auth, ICS export, and a boring-but-reliable email digest.

rent-radar

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Student lettings, mapped

Scrapes Rightmove/Spareroom listings near campus, plots them on a map with commute time to uni, and flags suspiciously cheap ads. Built for housemates who were drowning in Facebook groups.

pairboard

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Find a study partner for your module

Small TypeScript + Postgres matching board for COMP students. Won 'Most Useful' at HackMCR 2024.

Skills

Python · Advanced TypeScript / React · Advanced Go · Proficient PostgreSQL · Proficient Django / FastAPI · Advanced Git / CI · Advanced Docker · Proficient Testing · Proficient

Education

BSc Computer Science (predicted First)

University of Manchester

2022 – 2026 · Predicted First · Year 2: 78% average

A-Levels — Maths, Further Maths, Computer Science

Withington Girls' School

2020 – 2022 · A* A* A

Certificates

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services

Mar 2025

Python for Everybody Specialization

University of Michigan / Coursera

Nov 2024

HackMCR 2024 — Most Useful Project

HackMCR Society

Oct 2024

Contact

Email: sarah.mitchell.cs@gmail.com
Location: Manchester, UK · open to London / remote
Website: https://sarah.aboutstack.com