Thashil Naidoo Email & Phone Number

Gauteng, South Africa

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.• Developed and optimized the frontend of banking software with React, enhancing user experience.

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.• Ranked in the top 0.5% (top 25 out of 4500 applicants) for the prestigious METI Government of Japan Internship program.

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

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