Curriculum Vitae

Work Experience

2018 - present
Data Scientist, African Legal Information Institute, University of Cape Town.

• Lead developer for the "Citator", an automated system for citing, summarising and classifying court judgments using regular expressions, word embeddings, OCR and statistical classification algorithms.
• Lecture assistant for CyberLaw, guest lecturer in LLM advanced contracts presenting on smart contracts, presenter at several UCT Law@Work short courses on law and technology.
• Lead member of the team establishing the UCT Center for Law and Technology.

2017 - 2018
Head of Data Division, Q Division.

• Consulted on data and AI for clients including Sanlam, Metropolitan, Santam, O&L Namibia and others.
• Responsibilities: Consulting with clients on strategic objectives, scoping and costing data science solutions, project management, development of predictive algorithms, deployment and integration with client infrastructure.

2017 - 2017
Data Strategist, Q Division.

Technical Skills

Languages: Python (primary), R, SQL, Octave (Matlab), Cython, JAVA, C#
Python competency: 4 years professional experience with Python 3.6 - 3.8. Object oriented and functional paradigms.
Libraries/ Frameworks: Scipy, Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, nltk, sklearn, pyTorch, Django, FushionCharts, Falcon, D3 (javascript - for interactive web graphs).
Tools and Software: RapidMiner, PowerBI, IDashboard, Sage, Unity.
Devops: Docker, Linux, git, ssh, vim, tmux, VPN, bash
Databases: MySQL, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, ArangoDB.
Theory: Degree in mathematics and strong familiarity with statistics. Deep theoretical understanding of tensor data structures and tensor algebra.

Published Papers and Writing on Data Science

2020
Network Visualisation as a Citator User Interface Journal of Open Access to Law Vol 7 No 1. The paper presents my work on AfricanLII's Citator. 2014
An Evaluation of Four-Team-Per-Contest Swiss (Power Paired) Tournament Structures Using Computer Models in Python Monash Debate Review 2014 vol 12. The paper views tournament structures as sorting algorithms and evaluates their performance. 2018
Machine Learning Defined, a piece written on my personal blog about the correct mathematical formulation for supervised machine learning. available here

Education

2005 - 2010
South African College High School, 8 distinctions in Matric, including Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Life Sciences, Accounting 2011 - 2013
BSc Mathematics, University of Cape Town, final year paper title: Categorical Construction of the Tensor Product awarded 95 percent 2013 - 2016
Postgraduate LLB, Stellenbosch University

Moot Courts and Debating

2014
Winner of different moot court competitions, including Weber Wentsel and ENS moot courts
2014, 2015
Chairperson of the Stellenbosch University Debating Society.
2015
Winner of the UCT Open Debating Championships
2016
Top 10 speaker at the South African National Universities Debating Championships