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Name
Location
Years of Experience
Career Start Date
Highest Qualification
Field of Study
Institution
Completion Date
Undergrad
Job Titles
Skills
Salary Expectation
Employment Type
Candidate ZA001
Cape Town
15
2011
Master's Degree
Engineering
Stellenbosch University
2011
BEng Mechanical Engineering
Software Architect, CTO
Elixir, Phoenix, PostgreSQL, Python, AI, LLM
0
Permanent
Experience
Generative AI Decision-Science Startup
Lead Backend Engineer
2 years, 4 months (2023 - 2026)
- Built an end-to-end multi-agent backend for an SF-based startup, delivering a live pilot for a major US automotive dealership.
- Architected a three-agent system (orchestration, decision-science, and research) using event-driven state machines (gen_statem) to manage complex, multi-turn consumer conversations.
- Optimized high-volume LLM orchestration (100-200 calls/session) across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini, implementing a "system-reminder injection" pattern to reduce overhead.
- Engineered for AI-native reliability, implementing autonomous error recovery where agents self-correct or reframe logic in response to API failures (e.g., Anthropic 529s).
AdTech Startup
Co-Founder & CTO
1 year, 6 months (2022 - 2023)
- Engineered a cloud-native Demand Side Platform (DSP) and proprietary AI algorithms for real-time traveler profiling and predictive audience detection.
- Led the technical transformation from an on-demand delivery service to a high-growth marketing-tech platform, enabling 1,000%+ sales conversion for global luxury brands.
- Owned all technical decisions, implementing secure, cost-optimized architectures and LiDAR-integrated spatial AI to track passenger movements anonymously and at scale.
- Built and managed the engineering team, overseeing the end-to-end SDLC and ensuring compliance with global data privacy regulations.
Gig marketplace
Software Architect & Team Lead
Cape Town
1 year, 2 months (2021 – 2022)
- Led a core platform rewrite from Python/React to Elixir/Phoenix and PostgreSQL.
- Automated deployments using GitHub Actions and AWS infrastructure.
- Managed the six-month implementation phase until a strategic pivot in project funding.
E-commerce Startup
Founder & Full-Stack Developer
2 years, 8 months (2016 - 2018)
- Architected and solo-built a full-stack grocery platform, including a Python (Flask) REST API and a specialized Android application designed for "offline-first" reliability in low-bandwidth environments.
- Developed a custom machine learning recommendation engine and a proprietary delivery scheduling algorithm that significantly improved unit economics and personalized the user experience.
- Reduced data usage and user friction by ~90% (one order of magnitude), achieving high-performance results on low-cost devices; presented these engineering trade-offs as a featured speaker at PyConZA.
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