Aqeel joined us as a Trainee Junior Systems Engineer in July. Before joining us, Aqeel was doing a T-Level, with his placement being in the Cyber Security Department at Aviva.
Get to know Aqeel in our welcome questionnaire:
What is your professional background?
I was a T-Level student, just like Adon, but had my placement at Aviva for 18 months. This consisted of me working within the Cyber Security Department with the Risk Vulnerability Management team. I shadowed a lot and was responsible adding users to their risk vulnerability software.
Alongside my placement and studying I worked at KFC. I worked on multiple stations like Drive, Front counter, Burgers and Chute.
Before this, during lockdown, I started learning how to cut my own hair. It started very rocky and consisted of me taking a year break from it as I messed my hair up a lot. I then came back to barbering when I got hired at KFC, invested some money into better equipment and have stuck with it since. I now cut loads of my friends hair and my own independently. I have learnt how to do near enough everything from fading to scissor work, all through YouTube and TikTok.
If you could only keep three apps on your phone, which would you keep?
Spotify, my banking app and Snapchat.
What is your biggest achievement to date – personal or professional?
Learning how to cut hair from scratch, independently.
If you had an extra hour in the day, what would you do with it?
I think I would sleep a little bit more as I’m quite busy.💤
Are you team iPhone or team Android?
iPhone all the way.
Who is the most famous person you’ve met?
No one.
If you could be any character in a video game, who would you be?
Ike (Played him in Super Smash Bros).
If you could have invented or created anything, what would it be?
Math – It’s really cool if you think about it, it’s everywhere.
If you were a wrestler what would be your entrance theme song?
Many men – 50 Cent.
If you could have any job in the world, what would it be?
Astronaut would be pretty cool.🚀
