Staff Engineer / Fastly

Feb 2022 - Current

Logging team: Improving efficiency, Go best practices, improving monitoring

Data Engineer / Ravelin

Feb 2019 - Feb 2022

Convert datascience infrasctucture to kubernetes

Engineer / EDITED

Oct 2017 - Jan 2019

Visual merchandising shooter as well as unit testing and deployments

Engineer / LifeQ Technologies

Aug 2015 - Sep 2017

Responsibilities: Nutrition Model, Blood Pressure Sensor

Activities: Modelling, Unit testing, Digital signal Processing, Integrating and optimising the virtual human model

Race Engineer / Barden Racing

Jun 2010 - Mar 2012

Responsible for the the race vehicle (Maintenane and Repair). Finished the 2014 Dakar rally in 25th place and 3rd placed rookie.

M.Eng (Mechanical)(Distinction) - University of Pretoria

2014 - 2016

Thesis focussed on optimisation and flow through porous media. Optimisation work found a new method of finding a starting point in a global problem with many local minima.

B.Eng (Mechanical)(Honours) - University of Pretoria

2012 - 2013

Electives included: Numerical Methods, Optimisation, Advanced Finite Element Methods and Porous Flow

B.Eng (Mechanical) - University of Pretoria

2007 - 2011

Distinctions: Programming, Final Year Project.

Activities: Mini Baja, Ultimate Frisbee, Vlot Kaptein

Secondary School - Pretoria Boys High School

2001 - 2006

Thesis focussed on optimisation and flow through porous media. Optimisation work found a new method of finding a starting point in a global problem with many local minima.