Back-End Rust Development - Part Time

Building a modular WebAssembly-based website creation platform primarily in Rust.

• Redesigned and re-implemented core WebAssembly website component architecture.
• Designed and developed database-to-frontend features for client websites.
• Established and maintained libraries and patterns for cross-language APIs.
• Developed client tooling for server management and website creation.

Technical Content Writer

Delivered technical writing for clients on various topics for a general audience.

• Researched and wrote on information entropy, file formats, and conversions.
• Covered hobby electronics, computers, charging standards, and audio hardware.

Team Captain, HPC System Designer, System Administrator

Designed and administered a multimillion rand HPC cluster for international competition in Hamburg, Germany.

• Designed the multimillion rand cluster candidates, worked with it and other HPC systems.
• Managed system setup, configuration, drivers, OS, compilers, MPIs, modulefiles, ASCOT5.
• Led and managed the team, managed assignments and priorities, worked with sponsors.

Team Captain, HPC System Designer, System Administrator

Led a winning HPC team through system design, benchmarking, and application tuning.

• Won the competition; team selected as the core of the international team.
• Served as team coordinator, teacher, system designer, and system administrator, carrying out HPL, HPCG, HPCC, ASCOT5, and OpenFOAM benchmarks.
• Implemented a full fine-tuning and RAG pipeline for Qwen models on HPC documentation.

Robotics Programming & Problem-Solving

Won the year-group Micromouse competition among ECE, EE, and MEC 3rd-years.

• Implemented a custom solution over the course-provided MATLAB stack.
• Implemented maze mapping, navigation, and motor control in C and Zig on an STM32L4.
• Only entry to successfully complete the course.

Lead C# Developer, Puzzle Designer, Product Engineer

Produced a complete, original puzzle game about timing and velocity in 96 hours.

• Drove decision-making, coordinated team tasks and schedules, and managed integration.
• Designed all puzzles along a learning/difficulty curve, avoiding player frustration.
• Hand-implemented all game logic, including the train interchange and following system.

Team Captain, Reverse Engineering, Cryptography, Attack & Defence

Captained a team to #2 overall and #1 in Attack & Defense in the national cybersecurity CTF.

• #2 overall, prevailing across capture-the-flag categories, additional challenges, and A&D.
• #1 in Attack & Defense, personally orchestrating automated attack scripts and hardening.
• Personally won the NEC XON student prize and internship.

National Maths Olympiad Top 100

Ranked in the national top 100 in South Africa's Maths Olympiad in two consecutive years.