My awards
Cum'ed my 2nd year (2024)
Top Computer Systems student, 94%+ for 5 modules, top 10 for 5 modules
Top 2nd-year in Simonsberg (2024)
Top performing second-year student in Simonsberg Men's Residence for 2024
Cum'ed my first year (2023)
Receieved a "pass with distinction" for Probability Theory and Stats, Engineering Maths, Applied Maths, Chemistry, Physics, Data Science, Electrotechnique, Computer Programming, and Applied Maths. Mean: 85%
9 Distinctions in Matric (2022)
9 distinctions in my IEB matric
Subject prizes (2022)
Achieved 1st place in my school in Physical Sciences, Further Studies Physics, Maths, Further Studies Maths, Computer Applications Technology, and German
Valedictorian (2022)
Awarded for best overall achievement at school
Best academic achievement (2021)
Achieved the 1st prize for academics in Grade 11
SAPO Bronze (2021)
Placed top 6 in the South African Programming Olympiad
ZAF IOI Reserve (2020)
Selected to represent South Africa at the International Olympiad in Informatics as a reserve
SAPO Bronze (2020)
Placed top 6 in the South African Programming Olympiad
SAPO finalist (2019)
Placed top 19 in the South African Programming Olympiad
FLL ZAF National Tournament (2015)
Invited to compete in the South African National First Lego League Tournament after placing in the Cape Town Tournament
Eng Maths Cum Laude (2024)
Passed cum laude in Engineering Mathematics with 95%
Cum laude in Engineering Maths (2023)
Achieved a pass with distinction for Eng Maths 115 and 145
1st prize in Mathematics (2022)
Placed first in my grade in Further Studies Maths with 80% and in Core Maths with 94%
Gold at the Sasol SA Mathematics Challenge (2015)
Achieved Gold at the Sasol SA Maths Challenge with my partner, Matthias Zinner.
WCMC 1st place (2014)
Achieved first place in my circuit at the Western Cape Maths Competition
MET Media & Marketing (2025)
Ran Media & Marketing for the MET, selling out the whole event + extra tickets, reaching > 300.000 views & > 60.000 people through instagram. Managed the website with a 60% conversion rate across 3.500 unique visitors, and ran various digital & physical signage campaigns.
MET Media & Marketing (2024)
Ran the instagram account, reaching 21.000 impressions. Built the website which achieved a 55% conversion rate across 950+ unique visitors, and nearly sold out the event with > 1.500 external sales. Ran various signage campaigns, and analytics.
Applications Olympiad 1st place WC (2022)
Placed 1st in the Western Cape at the South African Applications Olympiad
DSD II C1 (2022)
Achieved level C1 CEFRL ("Proficient") German in the Deutsches Sprachdiplom der Kulturministerkonferenz
Valedictory Committee Member (2021)
Where I organised the Valedictory Circus, Ceremony, and Matric Dance After Party. I dealt with liasing with teachers, sourcing food, drinks, a venue, as well as ticket sales
Experience
Founder of TicketBee
2025 - present
Founded, and am currently running TicketBee - the platform for event ticketing.
- Go-to-market strategy
- Full-stack, complex fault-tolerant system
- Self healing, high-availability (incl. replicated databases on k8s)
- Built using modern but proven technologies
Software Engineer, Yellow
June 2024 - present
Part time work, while I'm pursuing my degree.
- Built & now maintain the payment portal
- Built & now maintain the android app and customer tracking infrastructure (ingest, data lake)
- Exploring generative AI & AI video processing applications in credit
Operational Excellence Intern at Wemolo
June 2025 - 1 month
In-person internship at a München-based startup.
- Data Engineering: ETL pipeline, parallel processing (decompression, transformation)
- Web Development: home-grown Google Photos replacement, OAuth2, SvelteKit
- Cloud: GCP, AWS
Was asked to continue with a paid position at Wemolo
Plentify Internship
June 2024 - 1 month
Developed advanced models for improving geyser energy efficiency and water usage: an unsupervised model for standing heat loss assessment with high-noise tolerance, a water flow analysis model for personalized usage recommendations, and an inlet water temperature prediction model for precise heating control. Additionally, implemented AWS Lambda monitoring systems to enhance cloud reliability.
Was asked to continue with a paid position at Plentify
Yellow Internship
Jan 2023 - 1 month
Designed, implemented, and deployed a translation grading tool via AWS Fargate to enhance machine translations between English and African languages, accelerating human translation efforts and improving agent communication. Enhanced a customer app by adding a payment history view and reimplementing the login and signup flow using Flutter.
Was asked to continue with a paid position at Yellow
Robotics Tutor at Club Electron
2022 - 1 year
Teaching primary & secondary school children coding & robotics.
Junior Software Engineer for Dash Waste
Feb 2020 - 4 months
Security analysis and improvement. Drawing together a consistent user experience by designing and implementing a functional user interface in VueJS.