Peter Hayward Email & Phone Number

Cape Town

Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

My duties have included multiple roles depending on project needs. Here follow my core responsibilities. Development of ETL and modelling solutions on cloud based systems using HADOOP technologies, Spark, serverless applications, and various database technologies. Full stack development of web applications in the education space using Node.js and Angular web services.Product Development Lead for internal and external teams using the Lean Product Process.Software developer mentor teaching SOLID principles, agile software development processes, and architecture design.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Building new systems and tools to be used by the company and clients.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

The primary objective of DiBi Consulting is to provide our clients with meaningful, comprehensible, and reliable knowledge extracted from data. We provide Business Intelligence solutions, predictive analytics, and process optimisation by using state-of-the-art machine learning, which are integrated into your current computer systems.Our goal is to add value by reducing uncertainty, by creating innovative business ideas from the knowledge obtained from the data.

Stellenbosch

Thesis abstract: Users are overwhelmed by the volume of information they have access to. Thus being able to reliably and accurately search information becomes crucial for work and in daily life. Today search terms used by search engines are typically based on keywords. Phrases and sentences are in use in some systems, but are rarely an option for the average user.Semantic parsers can be used to develop better knowledge extraction systems, since they translate natural language sentences provided by the user to a formal ma- chine representation. However, the current state-of-the-art semantic parsers cannot interpret context based on the topics contained in the sentence and the document it originates from.We therefore propose to develop a topic-based unsupervised semantic parsing framework that leverages observed and inferred topical information from corpora to disambiguate the semantic content of individual sentences. This leads to a parser that can be used on domain-independent corpora, unlike its predecessors.

Stellenbosch, South Africa

Thesis: Parallelization of evolutionary models.My thesis work is on the parallelization of phylogenetic models, which are used to compare genetic sequences. Our theoretical work has shown that parallelizing phylogenetic trees can improve computation time significantly, and therefore larger phylogenetic models can be built. Our aim is to efficiently build models with hundreds of thousands of taxa (sequences), where current models consist of only thousands of taxa. Thereafter to apply the new tools to very large scale problems, including the analysis of all available HIV-1 POL, ENV, HA, and NA sequences for selection and epistatic interactions. This work is part of the bioinformatics software package HyPhy and its web-server DataMonkey. These tools are used by many researchers in biotechnology and bioinformatics.

Software developer on the TechPros ISOqalo software project. The project provides tools for use in processes engineering and processes management.

Site back-end web development, site maintenance and server administration at the Cape Go IT-Department.

Part of the development team that worked on a Dynamic Management System(DMS). Other duties included performing the server administration of the DMS.

Msc Computer Science / Bioinformatics, Concurrent Programming, Bioinformatics

Honsbsc Computer Science, Computer Science, Concurrent Programming, Machine Learning

Bsc Software Engineering, Computer Science, Formal Logic, Information Systems