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Founder and CEO; Engineering Program Manager

Leading teams and driving impact across AI domains with hands-on team engineering.

International speaker and technical advisor for personalising conversational agents for improved customer satisfaction and retention.

Throughout leading dozens of projects and interfacing with spectrums of departments, my overall style is to distil business problems into practical solutions, establish expectations regularly, and anticipate flexibility. I instil trust, transparency, and initiative in my teams to enable us to grasp opportunities, try new things, and learn from failures quickly. I effectively communicate with stakeholders due to my empathetic people-driven approach to leadership and my rapid information-to-impact time. My experience navigating uncertainty into insight in a team-orientated manner can enhance existing avenues and guide new adventures. My passion for empowering people makes me an effective leader and force multiplier in organisations, whether leading or supporting.

Notable projects

  • Mamba Insights - Led a 4-person team as a systems architect for a real-time computer vision solution for generating insights from CCTV footage. I engineered a hybrid offline + online approach for deployment in internet-scarce settings.

  • DoYouRace - Designed, developed, and deployed the backend for a cycle race tracking app to provide real-time insight for racers, spectators, and organisers.

  • Offerzen | Make Team – part-time Developer Coach, or “Make Master”, to guide developers in exploring innovative technologies (Insurance AR, IoT & Robots, Insurance API & Chatbot) in a fun and rewarding experience. Coached 100s of developers from diverse technology backgrounds, regularly wrote for their blog, and have grown the “Make” community.

  • Mercedes-Benz South Africa – won the LaunchLab competition to develop a computer vision solution to automatically detect dents and scratches in the Sales and Marketing division. The application has been used and approved by the Mercedes-Benz head of technology for the world.

  • Number Boost – consulting data scientist on diverse projects including consumer behaviour analysis in big SA banks, cryptocurrency trading algorithms focused on regime switching, and implementing biplot analysis for peering into “black box” algorithms.

  • Q Division - Project lead as data scientist for one of Namibia’s biggest companies, which increased the visibility of company resources and allowed better predictions of marketing campaign efficacy. Software and Information Architect for corporate innovation project for Comair Limited to deliver the proof of concept that has turned into a multi-million deal.

  • iXperience – teaching assistant for the artificial intelligence and data science course, taught by local leaders in the field (e.g. Head of AI for Vodafone Africa).

  • NovaCode - Four-man team of developers that aimed to make great software. We managed to learn a lot from our failures on our internal projects to produce great wins for clients; increasing their revenue by 22%. Accepted into the “Seed Academy” start-up bootcamp, sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark, and attended “Lab2Market” cross-university course for biotechnology.