Experience

A timeline of my roles in data science, machine learning, and engineering leadership.

Senior ML Engineer

Living Homes January 2025 – Present
  • Senior ML Engineer for the product's cognitive AI backend layer
    • End-to-end feature development on multiple critical path features with product owners from user story and design to QA handover.
    • Built an assortment of features such as: RL-based sleep environment optimization, statistics-driven sleep & health analysis, user voice ID recognition via deep learning, and LLM-driven natural language home automation and commands, multiple internal and external API integrations exposed as tools for the product's conversational AI agent.
  • Python
  • Azure
  • PostgreSQL+MongoDB
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Temporal
  • LLMs
  • Langchain
  • RL

Senior Data Scientist & Team Lead

VMware Carbon Black June 2023 – September 2024
  • Team Lead for the data team, encompassing data visualization, data engineering, and data science.
    • Led collaborations between data teams, engineering, customer success, and product management teams to plan and deliver successful data projects for EDR product cost optimization and customer analytics.
  • Python
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • PostgreSQL
  • Spark
  • Tableau

Senior Data Scientist

VMware Carbon Black Sep 2021 – June 2023
  • Senior Data Scientist specializing in the cybersecurity domain at Carbon Black.
    • Built signature projects: cloud product cost monitoring and reduction in AWS, EDR ML-driven alerts, cost anomaly detection, LLMs for explainable alerting, and a customer churn model.
  • Created cost monitoring tools, anomaly models, and governance methodologies to monitor Carbon Black's AWS & GCP cloud infrastructure costs at a granular level.
  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Terraform
  • LLMs
  • Langchain

Senior Data Scientist

Amplify Analytix LTD Jan 2018 – Aug 2021
  • Senior Data Scientist specializing in delivering analytics to sales and marketing teams.
  • Product Dev Lead for the first marketable product at Amplify Analytix on optimizing SEO using reinforcement learning.
  • Python
  • R
  • Reinforcement Learning
  • MySQL
  • Tableau

ML Research Mentor

UCT, Cape Town July 2015 – Dec 2017
  • Machine Learning Research Mentor for the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) Lab internship program at the CSIR:
    • Led research on the feasibility of robotic 3D space understanding, and new time-series forecasting models for financial markets.
  • Python
  • Machine Learning
  • Time-Series Forecasting