Akash Goswami

@akash
UK 🇬🇧
he/him

Cyber Security

Software Engineer

Writer

Mechanical Keyboard Enthusiast

Remote Worker

Traveler

Tech Enthusiast

Book Worm

Coding

Digital Gardening

Blogger

Content Creator

Game Player

University Graduate

Software Engineering

Finance

Work: Securing things at Monzo

Freetime: Writing stuff for my websites, cycling or usually trying to complete a video game

Likes: Coffee, my dog & programming

I'm open to

writing,

speaking at events,

and giving travel advice.

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Sep 2023 - Present

Cybersecurity Backend Engineer, Monzo

Sep 2023 - Present

Cybersecurity Backend Engineer, Monzo Bank

Oct 2020 - Sep 2023

Cybersecurity Specialist, Monzo Bank

Oct 2020 - Aug 2023

Cybersecurity Specialist, Monzo

Companies I've worked with

Portfolio

2024

12 Jan, 2024

📬 Posted "Why Go?"

Just posted “Why Go?” on my developer blog 📬

https://akashgoswami.dev/posts/why-go/

2023

29 Dec, 2023

You Got This Scraper

A Python script to scrape metadata from the You Got This library to be used in my Obsidian vault

View the code here

09 Sep, 2023

Houston, we have notes!

Writing a Blog Post

I've just added a notes section to my website this morning.

I plan on using it to note small bits and pieces down as and when needed

Basically, it's my site's equivalent of tweets.

https://akashgoswami.com/articles/adding-notes/

08 Sep, 2023

Launched akashgoswami.dev 🙌🏽

Writing a Blog Post

Shipping a website

Launched a new website today

I'm planning on using this site to share things that I learn as a new junior software engineer and other topics I think all developers should know You can read the first short post here 👇🏽

https://akashgoswami.dev/posts/hello-world

21 Aug, 2023

DRM free books

Writing a Blog Post

A small guide on how to remove Kindle's DRM from Kindle books

https://akashgoswami.com/articles/removing-drm-from-kindle-books/

18 Jul, 2023

Published "Sabbatical Leave (part 1)"

Writing a Blog Post

A write-up of how I found taking 9 weeks of leave from work, what I got up to and what I learnt from travelling for 8 weeks non-stop

https://akashgoswami.com/articles/sabbatical-leave-part-1/

30 Jan, 2023

Published "Customising my Hugo Theme"

Writing a Blog Post

A mini post on some of the modifications I've made to the Digital Garden theme for my personal website

https://akashgoswami.com/articles/customising-my-hugo-theme/">🔗 Read the post here

20 Jan, 2023

Published "Building websites with Hugo"

Writing a Blog Post

I wrote a quick guide on how you can build your own website using Hugo and GitHub Pages!

Check out the post here 👇🏽

https://akashgoswami.com/articles/building-websites-with-hugo/

01 Jan, 2023

Reviving my personal website 🌱

Writing a Blog Post

Starting a Digital Garden

I finally got around to redesigning my personal website over the holidays, with the intent of using it to build a digital garden!

Along with that, I've written an article on why I think it's important everyone has a personal website

Give it a read and let me know what you think of it 👇🏽
https://akashgoswami.com/articles/why-you-need-a-personal-website/

2022

20 Dec, 2022

Writing a newsletter

Wrote an update for my personal finance newsletter

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/akashandmoney/issues/a-quick-update-what-s-to-come-1508025">You can find it here

03 Mar, 2022

Writing a newsletter

Wrote a newsletter issue on Bitcoin and what I think more people need to know about it

Check it out here!

07 Feb, 2022

Passed certification exam

Passed my CompTIA Security+ Exam!

07 Feb, 2022

Received CompTIA Security+ certification

Receiving a Certificate

Passed CompTIA Security+ exam 🎉

31 Jan, 2022

Writing a newsletter

Trying to get back into the habit of writing more often so I https://www.getrevue.co/profile/akashandmoney/issues/akash-money-update-794544">posted an update on my newsletter, Akash & Money on what I've been up to and what's next for the newsletter

15 Jan, 2022

Presented at You Got This Conf

Presented a talk

Personal finance

Presented my talk 'Buying Back Your Time' at You Got This In Cyberspace!

A talk about knowing when to prioritise saving time vs saving money and a simple framework for how we can buy back our time

2021

28 Sep, 2021

Writing a Twitter thread

https://twitter.com/akashgoswami_/status/1442799252665606145">Wrote a thread on the very basics of Bitcoin

04 Jun, 2021

Writing a Twitter thread

Wrote a thread on some credit card basics - https://twitter.com/akashgoswami_/status/1400791954527424512">Credit Cards 101 🧵

03 Jun, 2021

Writing a Twitter thread

Put together a thread on how rewards credit cards work - https://twitter.com/akashgoswami_/status/1400433343460626432">Rewards Credit Cards 🧵

02 Jun, 2021

Writing a Twitter thread

https://twitter.com/akashgoswami_/status/1400073471124639744">0% Credit Cards 🧵

01 Jun, 2021

Writing a Twitter thread

https://twitter.com/akashgoswami_/status/1399695989728964610">Credit Builder Credit Cards 🧵

24 May, 2021

Writing a newsletter

🤺 https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/fighting-text-message-scams-with-kia/">Fighting Text Message Scams with Kia

17 May, 2021

Spoke on a podcast

Pennies to Pounds Podcast - How To Protect Yourself From Text Message Scams ft Akash

22 Apr, 2021

Writing a newsletter

📈 https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/investing-101/">Investing 101

25 Mar, 2021

Writing a newsletter

💰 https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/interesting-isas/">Interesting ISAs

10 Mar, 2021

Writing a newsletter

🔌 https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/overcoming-outages/">Overcoming Outages

17 Feb, 2021

Writing a newsletter

📱 https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/phone-plans/">Phone Plans

03 Feb, 2021

Writing a newsletter

🏊‍♂️ https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/swimming-in-subscriptions/">Swimming in Subscriptions

13 Jan, 2021

Writing a newsletter

📚 https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/four-finance-books-for-2021/">Four finance books for 2021

2020

11 Dec, 2020

Writing a newsletter

🛍️ https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/binge-buying/">Binge Buying

26 Nov, 2020

Writing a Twitter thread

https://twitter.com/monzo/status/1331919244951490562">Wrote a Twitter thread for Monzo customers based on an internal piece of work I put together internally for Monzo staff around phishing 🧵

25 Nov, 2020

Writing a newsletter

💳 https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/credit-card-connoisseur/">Credit Card Connoisseur

11 Nov, 2020

Writing a newsletter

📊 https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/crunching-credit-scores/">Crunching Credit Scores

28 Oct, 2020

Writing a newsletter

💬 https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/social-scammers/">Social Scammers

07 Oct, 2020

Writing a newsletter

🌐 https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/busting-broadband-bills/">Busting broadband bills

23 Sep, 2020

Writing a newsletter

🏦 https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/bank-accounts-chequing-out-current-accounts/">Bank accounts - Chequing out current accounts

09 Sep, 2020

Writing a newsletter

🚨 https://buttondown.email/akashandmoney/archive/emergency-funds-why-do-you-need-one/">Emergency Funds - Why do you need one?

25 Aug, 2020

Wrote newsletters

Started the Akash & Money newsletter

12 Feb, 2020

Built an app

https://github.com/Skyth3r/Manual-Receipt-Generator">Monzo Manual Receipt Generator

A simple python third party terminal client that attaches receipts to Monzo transactions using the https://docs.monzo.com/#receipts">Monzo Receipts API

2019

01 Apr, 2019

Built an app

https://twitter.com/akashgoswami_/status/1112685400336855040">TfL to Monzo
A Monzo API project to import TfL journey data and link it to TfL transactions on a Monzo account

2018

11 May, 2018

Writing a Blog Post

Wrote a blog post for Topdeck Travel after my trip to Berlin 🇩🇪

https://blog.topdeck.travel/things-to-do-in-berlin/">📝 Are these the 9 best things to do in Berlin?

2017

29 Oct, 2017

Building a Website

http://akashgoswami.com/Credit-Card-Workout/">Credit Card Workout

Winner of the Capital One 'Change Banking for Good' challenge at Porticode 2.0 2017

A website that takes a users credit card balance, interest rate and monthly amount they wish to pay to calculate how long it would take them to pay their debt off as well as showing them how much interest they have accumulated. This was made within 24 hours for the Porticode 2.0 Hackathon

Source code can be found https://github.com/Skyth3r/Credit-Card-Workout">here