City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Developed MainTech as an information product to capture,manage and report on KFC franchise operations and stores in three countries. The product helps to get insights into the maintenance and resolution process flow for each of the shops.
Financial modelling and research using Python and other ML frameworks (keras,scikit) for a private equity fund. Building production models and interfacing with 3rd party financial systems
Founded FibreTiger as a easy to use and compare all ISP services on all the fibre networks. I got to wear many hats from back-end to front-end developer as well as gorilla marketing on a limited budget. This venture allowed me to acquire new technical and non-technical skills and served as a platform to test new ideas marketing and technical.
Developing enterprise search solutions with solr. Search Highlights: * Test Driven Search tuning. * User feedback ranking (Learn-To-Rank) * Production Solr Infrastructure maintainer. * Query and index tuning. * Building fast and effective search solutions for the new PriceCheck verticals (cars.pricecheck.co.za and property.pricecheck.co.za) Using ML to solve product and data problems. Machine Learning Highlights: * Classification(NB/XGBoost) * Unsupervised learning (k-means/tensorflow) * De-duping(heuristics) * Recommendation Engine (Hybrid Collaborative Filtering) * Item Similarity(SVD) * Lead dev on a produciton version for our auto product categorisation system for the content team. DevOps member for AWS/EC2/Linux/ML production environment. Opensource Project Contributions: * GoSolr https://github.com/rtt/Go-Solr * Bayesian Classifier https://github.com/jbrukh/bayesian * CodeIgnitor
Full stack developer for biggest South African eCommerce site. From a back-end perspective: I got my hands dirty and was lead dev on our distributed fault tolerant feed processing system. I was also involved with the front-end of the new car and property verticals that were launched.
Movie recommendation engine for groups of people, like couples or families. TV viewing is a group activity after all. Research project for SEO + RecommAlgos https://www.WePickFlix.com