Kate Sugden

Kate Sugden has a diverse work experience spanning over several years. Kate currently works at Made Tech as a Senior Engineer, starting in June 2022. Prior to this, they worked at Avaloq Evolution AG for a significant amount of time, starting in February 2012 and ending in June 2022. During their time at Avaloq Evolution AG, they held the role of Software Engineer, where they specialized in developing payments functionality for the Avaloq Core Banking application. Kate had a deep technical understanding of transactional banking operations and worked with Oracle and PL/SQL technologies. Kate was also an auditor and owner of core software components.

Before joining Avaloq Evolution AG, Kate worked at the University of Edinburgh. Initially, they held the role of Tutor from September 2005 to February 2012. Additionally, they briefly served as a Research Assistant from October 2010 to December 2010, where they contributed to collaborative research projects by designing, coding, and implementing simulations.

Earlier in their career, Kate had an internship as a Data Analyst at Mercy Corps. Kate traveled to Nepal as part of a project aimed at mitigating losses due to flooding in rural communities. Their responsibilities included analyzing rainfall and river data patterns, liaising with the Nepal governmental department for hydrology and meteorology, providing technical advice on the development of a flood forecasting model, and producing a comprehensive project report.

Overall, Kate Sugden's work experience showcases their expertise in software engineering, banking operations, data analysis, and research.

Kate Sugden earned a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from The University of Edinburgh, where they studied from 2005 to 2009. Prior to that, they completed their M.Phys. in Mathematical Physics at the same university, attending from 2000 to 2005.