Hi, my name's
Jacques Amsel

Experience

• Yellow

  June 2024-present

  I am currently a part-time software engineer at Yellow where I focus on implementing AI solutions for credit application processing and developing and maintaining the payment portal.

• Plentify Internship

  1 month

  During my 1-month internship, I completed four key projects that enhanced Plentify's smart water heating solution (HotBot):

  • Developed an unsupervised model to calculate standing heat loss in geysers, improving energy efficiency assessments, and quantified its precision, with unknown true values, and with extremely noisy data.
  • Created models for water flow patterns, enabling personalised recommendations to customers for optimal usage periods.
  • Engineered a model to predict inlet water temperature for geysers, contributing to more accurate heating control and energy savings.
  • Implemented monitoring systems for AWS Lambda functions, strengthening the reliability of cloud-based operations.

  These projects allowed me to apply data science techniques to real-world energy efficiency challenges, while gaining valuable experience in cloud computing, and predictive modelling, in IoT applications.

• Yellow Internship

  1 month

  During my internship at a company that provides financing for solar systems and cellphones to individuals in Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia during my Matric holiday before starting university, I...

  • designed, implemented, and deployed (using AWS Fargate) a tool that evaluates and corrects machine translations from Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI's GPT Davinci model between English and various African languages. This tool enhances and accelerates human translation of agent training documents and improves communication with agents.
  • implemented a payment history feature in the customer app
  • redesigned and improved the login and signup flow of the customer app (Flutter)

• Robotics Tutor at Club Electron

  1 year

  Teaching primary & secondary school children coding & robotics.

• Junior Software Engineer for Dash Waste

  4 months

  Security analysis and improvement. Drawing together a consistent user experience by designing and implementing a functional user interface in VueJS.