George Putney — Experience

Jun 2026
— Aug 2026

03 / Industry · Upcoming

Aladdin Application Engineering Intern

BlackRock

London, UK

Java Portfolio Analytics FinTech

Selected for BlackRock's Aladdin Engineering internship within the Aladdin platform team.

Jun 2025
— Jun 2026

02 / Industry · Placement

UBS

London, UK

Python Azure SQL Terraform

Owned the migration and rollout of RBAC authorisation automations across 14 Azure Cognitive Services bank-wide, eliminating 20+ daily manual access approvals and strengthening UBS's cloud security posture.
Implemented a suite of AI governance KPIs (materiality, answer relevancy, context relevancy, faithfulness) in Python for MyHub GPT Search, a RAG-based internal tool serving 40,000 users and 200,000 queries per month.
Migrated the Software Distributions reporting pipeline from on-premises infrastructure to Azure Data Lake using SQL and Azure Data Factory, collaborating cross-functionally with the EUS data engineering team.
Developed a machine learning ticket volume prediction model (TSD Predictions), evaluating 10+ approaches across classical ML and time series methods including LightGBM, CatBoost, SARIMA, and Prophet.

Jul 2019

01 / Industry · Work Experience

BNP Paribas

London, UK

Risk Analysis Compliance Financial Data

Supported security and risk teams with data analysis and reporting.
Gained early exposure to financial security frameworks and compliance standards in a global bank.