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• Specialist Data Platform Software Engineer, PwC South Africa

  Oct, 2024 - Present

  Data Modelling Platform design and implementation to enable bespoke actuarial and data science solutions for clients. I am responsible for the design and implementation of platform components, including data ingestion, data processing, and data storage.

• Site Reliability Engineer, BMW IT Hub South Africa

  May, 2023 - Sep, 20241 year 5 months

  Site reliability engineering and DevOps for the Plant Connectivity product

• Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Vision Bank

  Oct, 2022 - Apr, 20237 months

  I oversee the design and implementation of the bank's data platform in the bank's Data & Advanced Analytics team from a machine learning and data engineering perspective. I further research data management practices and solutions for operational data and data warehouse systems, data ingestion and streaming, and enterprise-wide schema and lineage management.

• Development Chapter Lead, Vision Bank

  Nov, 2021 - Sep, 202211 months

  Chapter lead in a startup digital bank, managing 60+ software and test engineers across several Spotify tribes. I was responsible for line management, technological decisions, and product research for software engineering and testing.

• Chief Technology Officer, Fractal Labs

  Oct, 2020 - Oct, 20211 year 1 month

  Technology Lead in a data analytics solution provider. Fractal Labs was a continuation of my role at MyBucks after the group restructured in 2020.

  • MS SQL, MongoDB, Neo4J, .NET Web APIs, Python, C#, XGBoost, CUDA, Openshift, Kubernetes, DevOps, MLOps

• Data Scientist, MyBucks

  Jan, 2018 - Sep, 20202 years 9 months

  Cluster provisioning, DevOps Lead, ML Engineering, and fraud detection.

  • Built 3 high availability Openshift clusters and supporting CloudStack infrastructure.

  • Openshift and the CentOS nodes was fully automated using Ansible and custom templates.

  • Automated DevOps pipelines for 25+ projects with GitOps practices.

  • Provisioned Elastic Search, Kafka, and Neo4J with high availability in Openshift.

  • Team Lead of an in-house fraud detector using Python and Neo4J.

  • Provisioned 10+ Postgres and MySQL servers to Openshift.

  • Developed cross-platform integration for multiple projects.

  • MS SQL, MongoDB, Neo4J, .NET Web APIs, Python, C#, XGBoost, CUDA, DevOps, MLOps

• Software Engineer, Synerics

  Apr, 2016 - Dec, 20171 year 9 months

  Development and maintenance of insurance backend systems using MS SQL, .NET (C#), hybrid micro service architectures & continuous deployments.

  • Online shop portal (UI & backend) using ASP.NET Web API, angular, MS SQL, Azure & 3rd party integrations (shipment, ID verification, bank verification).

  • Built T/SQL reverse engineering tools using Powershell and Microsoft SQL SMO for highly complex MS SQL environments across two data centres. This was done to enable dependency tracing, source control, and regression testing, allowing deterministic retrieval of several hundred SQL objects in a single run.

• Software Engineer, Matogen

  Dec, 2010 - Mar, 20165 years 3 months

  Participating in a small team of industry experts, I developed geo-spatial and land survey applications for an international client.

  • I designed and implemented 3D terrain rendering, hypsometric tinting, structural monitoring, and satellite image projection software using ASP.NET, C# and T/SQL.

  • Designed and built robust task management and scheduling software and applied it to data acquisition, database maintenance and video stream processing across multiple projects.

• Founder, Marching Kubes

  May, 2013 - Present

  Marching Kubes supplies data analytics, machine learning and specialized software engineering services.

  • Openshift OKD architecture. Public, private, and hybrid cloud environments, provisioning, and high availability

  • DevOps architecture & consultation

  • Data analytics, data engineering, machine learning

  • 3D graphics, photogrammetry, GIS

  • Specialized software engineering services

• Senior Principal Consultant, The IQ Business Group, Inc

  Feb, 2012 - Apr, 20131 year 3 months

  Software engineering for large enterprise clients in the financial sector. I designed and developed .NET desktop and web solutions in a high security environment.

• Solution Architect, Momentum

  Jan, 2009 - Jan, 20123 years 1 month

  I guided technological decisions and architecture and lead development of the call centre integration systems using C#, .NET, WCF and MS SQL

• Senior C# Developer, Momentum

  Aug, 2008 - Dec, 20085 months

  At Momentum I designed and developed integration services in the call centre software team using C#, .NET, WCF and MS SQL

• Senior Developer, Osiris Trading

  Oct, 2007 - Jul, 200810 months

  I developed .NET web services in a high availability, high traffic volume environment using C#, .NET and WCF.

• Senior Developer, QMuzik

  Jun, 2005 - Sep, 20072 years 4 months

  Specialized ERP software development, using C#, T/SQL, Oracle, Embedded C and C++.

• C# Developer, Computer Foundation

  Apr, 2003 - May, 20052 years 1 month

  Development of a mobile infrastructure and asset management system. The client was a local railway company where I developed interactive geographic tools using Microsoft .NET, T/SQL, C/C++, and spatial data.

• Part-time Developer, Oberdata

  Dec, 2000 - Mar, 20032 years 3 months

  Part-time development of ERP systems.

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