{"id":165,"date":"2020-08-13T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/physics\/?p=165"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T14:16:48","slug":"graduate-profile-wei-ann-heng-software-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/physics\/2020\/08\/13\/graduate-profile-wei-ann-heng-software-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate profile: Wei Ann Heng, software engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_168\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_168\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/08\/weiann-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"Wei Ann Heng\" width=\"318\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/08\/weiann-cropped.jpg 504w, https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/08\/weiann-cropped-266x300.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wei Ann at the entrance to the Schuster building<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Since she graduated with an MPhys in Physics in summer 2018, Wei Ann has gone on to become a software engineer in Accenture. She tells us about her job, her experience of learning programming, and gives some advice for physics students interested in the tech industry.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Can you tell us about the company you work for and what your job involves?<\/h3>\n<p>I work for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accenture.com\">Accenture<\/a> as a Technology Architect. I had no idea what this actually meant until about three months into the job. When it comes to delivering technology, the architect is the person that designs the entire system to meet the requirements &#8211; which services should be used, how they communicate with each other, and what is best practice for security and production level applications. However, day to day, I\u2019m a full stack software engineer &#8211; the person that then takes the architect\u2019s solution and builds it. My team in particular focuses on building applications around emerging technologies like blockchain and quantum computing<\/p>\n<h3>Did you have a lot of programming experience when you applied for your job?<\/h3>\n<p>All of my computing experience was from uni \u2013 I did the intro to programming in second year, OOP (object-oriented programming) in fourth year, and did a computational particle physics Master&#8217;s project. I genuinely think that if it wasn\u2019t for my Master\u2019s project and OOP, I wouldn\u2019t have my job.<\/p>\n<h3>Was this an area you expected to end up working in?<\/h3>\n<p>Not at all. I wasn\u2019t sure if I wanted to commit to a three-year PhD, and I kind of fell into tech. However, even though I\u2019m not sure I will stay at a company that does client project work forever, I think my future career will always have an element of technology or software development in it.<\/p>\n<h3>Did you do any work experience or internships while at uni, or were you involved in any societies?<\/h3>\n<p>I did internships every summer of uni, mostly because I had no idea what I wanted to do, so I tried anything I had the slightest interest in. I was a research intern for a radio station, a tech consultant, a summer research student on dark matter in South Korea. It helped a lot, even by a process of elimination. This would be my number one advice to anyone like me who is maybe a bit idealistic and can see themselves doing loads of different things: instead of being stuck with choice paralysis, give your top choices a give yourself the data to make an informed decision!<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-167 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200229_171159.jpg\" alt=\"Wei Ann Heng as a student \" width=\"373\" height=\"497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200229_171159.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200229_171159-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200229_171159-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/08\/IMG_20200229_171159-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/>Why did you choose Physics, and why did you choose Manchester?<\/h3>\n<p>I fell into both Physics and Manchester actually \u2013 I\u2019m from Malaysia where I\u2019d never heard of anyone studying physics (everyone was too busy being lawyers and engineers). I actually came to Manchester because it was one of the only five unis in the country that did Economics and Sociology, which is the course I enrolled in. It was a pretty lucky choice; I fell in love with the city and the physics department almost instantly.<\/p>\n<h3>What was the best part of your degree?<\/h3>\n<p>The learning curve. I didn\u2019t know what a vector product was or how to use excel when I started, and to end up on the other side having learnt some crazy maths and feeling like you\u2019re closer to understanding the way the universe works is pretty awesome.<\/p>\n<h3>Is there anything you miss about being a physics student?<\/h3>\n<p>Being surrounded by really odd, brilliant people. The people I\u2019ve met in Physics are the most passionate I\u2019ve ever met. I really enjoy being surrounded in intense environments where everyone is pushing each other on, while at the same time suffering from Stockholm Syndrome of the Braddick Library.<\/p>\n<h3>Any advice for physics students interested in a career in tech?<\/h3>\n<p>There are actually so many different ways to work in technology. It\u2019s not just software development \u2013 there\u2019s data science, tech architecture, DevOps, cloud computing etc. etc. If you enjoy being hands on, learning things on the fly and see the products of your labour before your very eyes (something you don\u2019t always get with Physics), I\u2019d encourage you to look around. Also, unlike Physics, the world of tech is rarely built on first principles. It has a lot to do with learning how to work with existing tools and vendors, and building great things on top of them instead of recreating the wheel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-166\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/08\/Accenture.jpg\" alt=\"Wei Ann Heng at Accenture\" width=\"670\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/08\/Accenture.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.mub.eps.manchester.ac.uk\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/75\/2020\/08\/Accenture-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wei Ann went from a physics degree to a career in software engineering &#8211; she shares some insights on her job, her physics experience, and what it&#8217;s like working in 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