June 2024 — present
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Solenya · Cape Town, South Africa
- Built and led a nine-person team of engineers, researchers and data scientists across AI research, product development and infrastructure.
- Designed a randomised experiment spanning nearly one million sessions, estimating a 27.14% revenue-per-user uplift (90% CI: 14.0%–41.9%) for multimodal product discovery.
- Built production GPU infrastructure supporting over 250 inference requests per second at peak, with automated deployment, monitoring and disaster recovery.
- Led technical strategy, architecture, recruitment and supplier relationships; participated in fundraising and commercial engagements.
c. 2023 — April 2024
Senior Data Scientist
MyRunway · Cape Town, South Africa
- Developed experimentation and causal-measurement practices to evaluate commercial and operational decisions.
- Deployed vision-language and statistical pricing models, alongside optimisation and multi-agent simulation systems for retail operations.
January 2021 — c. 2023
Data Scientist
MyRunway · Cape Town, South Africa
- Built a cloud data warehouse and analytical infrastructure supporting pricing, purchasing and stock management for more than 45 business users.
August 2019 — January 2021
Junior Data Scientist
DataProphet · Cape Town, South Africa
- Delivered industrial machine-learning and digital-twin engagements for international manufacturers and equipment providers, combining model development, validation and client-facing technical work.
September 2018 — February 2019
Financial Engineering Subject Matter Expert
WorldQuant University, via Hubble Studios · Cape Town, South Africa
- Developed postgraduate learning materials in financial risk modelling, simulation, machine learning and macroeconomic modelling for the MSc in Financial Engineering.
May — July 2018
Research Intern
NMRQL Research · Cape Town, South Africa
- Applied natural-language models to financial risk-management problems.