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Gauteng, South Africa

Rosebank, Johannesburg

• Contracted to Standard Bank Group Limited. Worked on the Business Online Plus (BOL+) transaction platform.
• Engineered and deployed 10+ robust API functions to AWS Lambda using Node.js, improving transactionprocessing speed by 30%.
• Rigorously tested API functions with Jest, achieving a 95% code coverage and reducing bugs by 20%.
• Authored comprehensive documentation in Markdown and Swagger, enabling seamless integration for development teams.
• Provisioned and managed AWS resources with Terraform, optimizing infrastructure efficiency and reducing deployment time.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions workflows, reducing manual deployment efforts by 60% and improving deployment frequency.

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

• Research assistant for the Nature Inspired Computing Optimization Group (NICOG).
• Conducted research on incremental learning in deep neural networks to minimize catastrophic forgetting,contributing to a 5% increase in model accuracy.
• Explored dataset difficulty estimation in neural networks, leading to a framework to assess dataset complexity and optimize model training.
• Applied advanced machine learning techniques to a disease prediction model using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), achieving prediction accuracy of 99%.

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

• Tutored over 200 students across various courses, including Compiler Construction, Data Structures andAlgorithms in Java, and Imperative Programming in C++.
• Set and marked practical assignments.
• Conducted weekly consultation sessions, improving students’ understanding of programming concepts and leading to an average improvement in grades.

Kokurakita-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

• Full stack developer for a Japanese company looking to build applications to teach programming to students.
• Migrated a PHP Laravel web application to a Next.js/React framework, improving application performance by 30%.
• Dockerized the development environment, enabling faster development and streamlined deployment.
• Performed white-box and black-box testing, identifying and resolving over 10 system bugs before production release.
• Overcame language barriers with team members through technical documentation and visual communication, improving project delivery timelines.
• Initiated development of a custom in-house DBMS, focusing on data consistency and retrieval efficiency.

Bachelor Of Science Honours - Bsc (Hons), Computer Science (Cum Laude), 84%

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Computer Science (Cum Laude), 86%