28 Amish’s Story

Meet Amish Shah, shown in figure 28.1. Amish graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Industrial Experience in 2023 when this episode was first recorded. Amish did a summer internship at imago.cs.manchester.ac.uk and a year-long placement at Bloomberg L.P. before accepting a graduate job offer at Palantir Technologies, see figure 28.2

Figure 28.1: Amish Shah linkedin.com/in/amish-shah. Picture re-used from github profile shown in figure 11.12 with permission, thanks Amish.

Listen to the episode by clicking Play ▶️ below, or subscribing wherever you get your podcasts, see section 21.2. An annotated and edited transcript of the audio is shown below.

28.1 What’s Your Story Amish?

An edited podcast transcript will appear here in due course. In the meantime, an un-edited, raw machine-generated transcript can be found here with highlights from One Tune, One Book and One Film shown below.

Figure 28.2: Amish Shah at the end of his placement at Bloomberg London (right hand side) where he worked on graph-based worksheets (W <GO>, left hand side) available in the Bloomberg Terminal. (Kenton 2022) Pictures used with permission from Amish. (Shah 2022)

28.2 One tune

For his tune, Amish chose Back in my Body see figure 28.3.

Figure 28.3: Amish chose Back in my Body by Maggie Rogers, an American singer-songwriter and record producer from Easton, Maryland (M. Rogers 2019) Press image of Maggie Rogers via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/ApdH adapted using the Wikipedia app 🇺🇸

28.3 One book

For his book, Amish chose On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous see figure 28.4

Figure 28.4: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is the debut novel by Vietnamese American poet Ocean Vuong, published by Penguin Press in 2019. An epistolary novel, it is written in the form of a letter from a Vietnamese American son to his illiterate mother. (Vuong 2019) Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org 🇻🇳

28.4 One film

For his film, Amish chose English Vinglish see figure 28.5

Figure 28.5: English Vinglish is a 2012 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film written and directed by Gauri Shinde. The film stars Sridevi as Shashi Godbole, a small entrepreneur who makes snacks and sweets. Shashi enrolls in an English-speaking course to stop her husband and daughter mocking her lack of English skills (Shinde 2012) Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org 🇮🇳

28.5 Disclaimer

⚠️ Coding Caution ⚠️

Please note these transcripts are generated with speech to text software and are not perfect word-for-word transcriptions. Some speech disfluency has been manually removed and links, cross references and pictures have been manually added for clarification. Extra (non-quoted) words are given in brackets like this: (some text added afterwards).