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Education
2016-2020 University of Pretoria Final year project: Control Systems - Autonoumous Window Cleaning Robot
BEng Electronic
Top final year control systems project for 2020
Experience
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019 Vacation Work: Autocad Drafter and Site Inspection Vacation Work at a small, but very experienced consulting electrical engineering firm who registers roughly 120 to 160 consulting projects a year. Placement for observation was made with various acting roles in the firm including various engineers and draughting personnel with different tasks and different projects at the firm to ensure a holistic overview of the working environment in the industry as well as to observe the various phases within the life cycle of an electrical engineering project.
Consolidated Power Engineering (Pty) Ltd
Feb 2021 - Present Platform Engineer Intern
- Automating the deployment of our app hosting environment (i.e. infrastructure as code)
Polygon Research Inc.
- Automating our process for monthly updates to our apps, including acquiring and cleaning data
- Developing a methodology for conforming disparate entity names (e.g. lender names)
- Develop monitoring and alerting for our cloud infrastructure
- Develop user click analysis of most-used features in our apps
- Product management guidance for our predictive analytics, specifically our time series forecasting with Tangent Works
Volunteer Experience
Apr 2017 - Sept 2017 Improvement Engineer Implemented a drainage system for Kutumela Molefi Farm School. Awarded University of Pretoria Engineers Without Borders project of the year, 2017.
Engineers Without Borders South Africa
Achievement/Awards
2019 and 2020 Member of the Golden Key International Honors Society Awarded to top 15% of Engineering Class
References
Greg Oliven, CTOPolygon Research, Inc.
e-mail: goliven@polygonresearch.com
Prof. I.K. Craig, Professor and Group Head: Control Systems
Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Pretoria
e-mail: ian.craig@up.ac.za
Skills/Attributes
- Strong technical working skills
- Rigorous work ethic
- Data Analyses
- Control Systems
- Electronic Engineering
- Statistics
Software Skills
- Assembly
- Atlassian Tools
- C
- C++
- HTML
- Java
- LaTeX
- LTSpice
- MATLAB
- MS Office
- Python
- SQL
- VHDL
Languages
- Afrikaans
- English
Hobbies
- Hiking
- Gym
- Reading
Quote
"Data is a precious thing and will lastlongerthan the systems themselves."
-Tim Berners-Lee