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GLOBAL ALPHA RESEARCHER

Trexquant

May 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)

• Creating Hangman prediction algorithm achieved 85% percent • Creating AI tools with can be used for trading using Sentiment Analysis • Stock Market prediction using Sentiment Analysis • Working with bert huggingface With with RNN and LSTM • Finetuning models • Working with large datasets • Creating and Financial and Statistical Models • Working with AI transformer architecture • Working with DataCollatorForLanguageModeling • Designing custom AI model to improve accuracy • Attention mechanism • Inference and Optimisation • Model compression: quantization, • pruning, distillation • Batch vs. online inference strategies • Hardware (GPU, TPU, memory specs) • Batching techniques • Parallel inference strategies • Model evaluation pipelines • Ev

SOFTWARE ENGINEER for AI Training Data (Data training,Code Assessment,AI Teams)

Scale AI

Jan 2024 - Jul 2024 (7 months)

• Prompt Engineering • Data Labeling • AI for eCommerce • Computer Vision Applications • Q-learning • Computer Vision Applications • Learning- Training and Building Machine Learning Models • Learning- GenAI Platform • Learning -Donovan • Learning- diffusion-models • Utilized Tableau and Microsoft Power BI to create comprehensive dashboards for visualizing AI model performance and key data metrics. • Applied principles of Good clinical practice (GCP) to ensure data integrity, rigorous documentation, and ethical compliance standards throughout the machine learning development lifecycle.

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SOFTWARE ENGINEER (Mnbile App & Python dev)

IntelliAffica

Apr 2021 - Jun 2021 (3 months)

• Responsible for the maintenance and continous patching of a Whats App chat bot for ZB Bank using Flask, SQL Alchemy,. During that process, I would also provide customer support for ZB's customers who had queries on the platform. • Responsible for the design, implementation and testing of the the Tumai platform which is a platform that facilitates bill payments (airtime, ZESA, school fees and city councils) and remittance using Django, Django Rest Framework, Spring Boot, JPA, JaxB and Rest Template. I was responsible for the system architecture design and integration of various providers (bill payments and payment processors) which are on the platform. • • Responsible for the requirements gathering, project planning, implementation and sup

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CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

LEADING DIGITAL

Oct 2019 - Apr 2022 (2 years 7 months)

• Lead annual IT budgeting and forecasting, ensuring cost optimization while maintaining service excellence. • Oversaw the design, development, and scaling of software products, ensuring reliability, performance, and security. • Directed and managed the building and scaling of engineering teams and digital platforms. • Led the architecture and deployment of smart contract and DApps to support decentralized business models. • Orchestrated the implementation of Management Information Systems to streamline cross-departmental operations and data accessibility. • Spearheaded the development of dynamic and static websites to enhance digital presence and user engagement. • Directed the strategy and maintenance of robust E-Commerce websites, ensuri

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INNOVATION AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

BLR AUTO

Oct 2019 - Apr 2020 (7 months)

• Creating numerous start-up products and services using android, django and sprintboot • • • Creating variety of ecommerce and fintech products that were used internally for the company and also for end clients. Took part in the company's rebranding and diversification by creating blockchain and ai solutions Created blockchain based software and applications • Brand development, web site traffic growth, web site UI and advertising revenue. Developed brand strategy and statistics systems. Strategic consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development. Comprehensive database management and migrations from SQL to Oracle. • Leveraged advanced knowledge of probability and statistical analysis to develop robust predictive models, enh

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EXEVM SECURITY ENGINEER AND CRYPTO TRADER

Immunify,Codehawk,Sherlock,Binance

Jan 2018 - Current (8 years 6 months)

• Crafting multiple level highly profitable arbitrage opportunities • Automated Market Maker Mathematics • Crypto Futures and Options • Crypto Day Trading and Investments • Crypto Swap, Vesting, Lending and Borrowing Financial Calculation • Crypto Automated Market Maker • Central Bank Digital Currencies • Audit deployed and non deployed project • Creating blockchain analysis tools • Creating formal verification and static analysis tool • Manual and Automated audits • Code Review • Architecture Security Analysis • Testing and Debugging • Cryptography • Regulatory Compliance • Gas Optimization • Communication • Problem-Solving • Governance • Crafting very complex edge cases • Leveraged Apache Spark to process large-scale datasets, enhancing t

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER AND SAP BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ANALYST(BI)

SAP

Jan 2018 - Dec 2018 (1 year)

• Created Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for companies across Africa • In charge and handling multiple projects simultaneously • Liaises with clients for creative requests, requirement elicitation • Created payroll, human resource, Treasury Management, Financial Planning and Analysis, Supply Chain Management, customer relationship management (CRM), Supplier Management, Procurement system for companies i.e Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company(ZCDC) • Created an email encryption system for TELONE • Power BI integration and fiori • Created an entire point of sale system for grain marketing board (GMB) • Leveraged SAP Leonardo machine learning capabilities to enhance predictive analytics and data-driven insights within ERP and BI

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SOFTWARE ENGINEER (BlockChain, Automation & AI Teams)

Tata Consultancy Services.

Aug 2015 - Apr 2018 (2 years 9 months)

• Created Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for companies across Africa Over 40+ companies and organisations. • Creating enterprise system using the java spring framework • Creating mobile and web app and prediction bots using kotlin,mql5 and python • Smart contract and DApps what's this created smart contracts for namibia revenue authority and a Zimbabwe stable coin based on appollo blockchain and bitcoin nodes Dynamic & Static Websites django,flask and nodejs and E-Commerce Websites • • • Third Party Software Deployment and Support Database Design and Management using mysql • Mobile application development – using flutter and android studio • Big Data analytics • Power BI integration using python • Digital Business Consultancy -

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