What is your current role? 

I'm a senior hardware engineer at Powerverse. I am working on electrifying our homes, making it simpler and more accessible to use EV chargers, heat pumps, and reduce our reliance on gas. 

My main project is the 'home hub' which uses AI to work out when you're more likely to use electricity and prepares your house's energy supply for it. The hub takes into account things like when you charge your car, the weather and price changes, the energy source (solar, battery, national grid), and helps to reduce the cost and carbon output.

What inspired you into engineering?

It was an accident. When I was at school in Hungary, all I knew about engineering was car mechanics. I hadn't realised engineering was so much more than this. I wish I knew back then what I do now.

I always wanted to help people. When exploring different careers, I read about a woman with a bionic arm and immediately I thought 'that's it, that's the type of job I am going to do'.

I wasn't sure how, until I met someone at a party who studied Robotics, and the course sounded really interesting. The next year, I was studying Robotics at the University of Plymouth. You never know when inspiration will find you. 

At university I really enjoyed being hands-on and creative, then my placement year allowed me to try different areas of engineering. I enjoyed hardware engineering more than software as it was much more active.

What part of engineering do you enjoy the most?  

I love creating something new all the time that can save people money, that's easy to use and that makes houses or businesses greener.

I research and plan the product first, then get a specialised company to do the manufacturing and building of it, then finally, I test and modify it. I really enjoy making something that wasn't there before, that's also why I love baking, creating and DIY.

I want to help people. I want to be useful, if I do a job - I want to make it count.

What advice would you give to your younger self? 

It's hard to imagine at age 14 that you might be working on something that will save lives, change the world or become the next iPhone.

But the reality is that every great engineer was once as young as you, with way smarter people around them. So keep in mind that no one expects you to know everything from day one.

Part of your job is to still learn, and grow. Believe in your curiosity, in your ability to learn and you'll be a great engineer. You can never dream too big.

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