Profile

Last updated on: March 29, 2020 by Musa Kurhula Baloyi

Work experience

• Graduate, IT Specialist, Information Management Technical Consultant, Research Intern @IBM
• Graduate Software Developer, Consultant Developer, Senior Developer @ThoughtWorks
• Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer, Fraud Data Analyst @Standard Bank
• Lead Data Engineer, Lead Developer @Differential Capital

Lecturing, teaching and tutoring

• Python, theoretical computer science @Wits University
• C++, Java @University of Limpopo(Turfloop)
• Scratch on the Targeting Talent Program @Wits University
• Software Development Fundamentals for Microsoft Technology Associate examination @Brighter Futures Tuition

Formal education

• BSc Computer Science and Statistics @University of Limpopo
• Higher Diploma in Computer Science @Wits University
• BScHons in Computer Science @Wits University
• Postgraduate Diploma in Mathematical Sciences @African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) & @University of Cape Town(UCT)
• MSc in Engineering (Information) by Research @Wits University [in progress]

Industry certifications

• International Computer Driving License from ICDL SA
• IBM Information Management Optim Technical Sales Mastery Test from IBM
• M40 IBM Information Management InfoSphere Warehouse Technical from IBM
• M45 IBM Information Management DB2 Technical Mastery v2 from IBM

Tools, languages and platforms

• Scientific Packages: R, SciPy, Scilab, Sage, MATLAB, SAS, SPSS, Latex, etc.
• Programming Languages: Python, Ruby, Java, many JavaScript frameworks, etc.
• Web Frameworks: Django, Rails, Flask, Sinatra, Spring, Express, etc.
• DB Management Systems: MySQL, DB2, Postgres, CouchDB, ElasticSearch, DynamoDB, etc.
• Operating Systems: Windows, Ubuntu, Mac OS X, other Linux distros
• Virtual Environments: Vagrant, VM Ware, Docker, OpenStack, Ansible, etc.
• Deployment Platforms: AWS EC2, Digital Ocean, Jenkins, Heroku, CloudFormation, etc.

Business imperatives / Technology stacks

• Web Scraping: Python, requests, BeautifulSoup, Selenium, Firefox, Chrome, site map, robots.txt, JavaScript
• PDF Scraping: AWS Textract, pytesseract, OpenCV, pdf2txt
• Data Engineering: HortonWorks Data Platform, HortonWorks Data Flow, SMACK stack, Elastic stack
• Project Management: Atlassian
• Data Science: Anaconda, pandas, scikit-learn, Kaggle
• Chatbots: IBM BlueMix, IBM Cloud, Watson Conversation API, Watson Assistant API, Python, JSON, dialog, Google DialogFlow
• Algorithmic Trading: Python, Bloomberg API, Bloomberg EMSX, quantopian, zipline
• Web Development: LAMP, MEAN

New ventures

• TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, neural networks
• Virtual reality, augmented reality
• Unity, game development
• Mobile development, iOS, Android
• SEO