Jumana Mundichipparakkal

"Jumana is a Systems Architect, analyzing how people use their smart devices and applying new advanced techniques to future designs.The ‘Explorer’ and ‘Trainer’ types fit her well as she needs to be persistent and conscientious, using her logic to think about how people use their mobile devices and helping the team understand this information to improve their designs. She also fits the ‘Innovator’ type with her focus on future designs and study of new technologies and shows that she is self-motivated with her continued study."

"Jumana works for a company that produces microchips (‘the brains’) for 95% of the world’s smartphones. Her role as a Systems Architect is to look at how everyone uses their mobile devices, (smartphones, laptops) and analyse that information to see that the microchip is working effectively and if any improvements can be made for future designs. She needs to think about new technologies and how she can help people make use of them. She even gets to hack into phones to see how they work!Jumana has a good technical understanding and uses programming skills within her work. She feels that applying logic is key to this field of work. Jumana has worked at Intel and at ARM and she says that software and hardware companies usually provide a very nice atmosphere, allowing you to be yourself and be outgoing. Jumana earned £20,000 per year as an intern and started on £40,000 per year in her first job."

"Jumana was introduced to computers in secondary school in India and then decided that she wanted an engineering career, building computers. She came from a small village in India and was told that engineering was not for girls, however with inspiration from a book by a former president of India and her own persistence, she proved the doubters wrong!Jumana completed her degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering in the Netherlands. She was funded and received a scholarship while there.The master’s degree in Embedded Systems taught her to design electronic devices such as smartphones and robots. At the same time, she also worked as an intern at Intel. She applied for a role through ARM’s graduate scheme via their website and started work with them as soon as she completed university. She is pleased to have already had roles in two global technology companies that design computers.Jumana is still studying and is doing a ‘nano-degree’ to design self-driving cars! "

"Jumana likes sports, in particular badminton, running and yoga. She also likes reading and enjoys learning, often online.Jumana travels with work and has travelled to Bangalore in India and San Francisco, as well as living and working in Austin, Texas for 2 months.Jumana enjoys her career and wants to progress in it, and also to have a healthy work/life balance."

"My typical day at work involves learning about current and future technologies, presenting project ideas derived from investigations to other engineers and working on how we proceed with achieving the desired goals in the time frame.As an engineer, you spend time studying problems, existing solutions to them and derive your own innovative ideas for solving problems. It is funt o solve such big problems with others, throwing your ideas and learning from each other. My team at Arm are actively working to design future technology for making devices in your hands perform fast and smooth with many features like better gaming, better quality camera etc. "

"I got a 98/100 in Mathematics in my GCSE, and I took Maths and Computer Programming for my higher secondary level. Then I went for Electronics and communication engineering for undergraduate studies.Once I finished that, it was clear for me I wanted to build computer systems. So I went for masters in embedded systems, which teaches you electronics and computer science fundamentals to build smart devices. "