I take a client from a vague problem to a working AI system. I run discovery, turn what I hear into written business rules and a plan, then build and ship it myself. I have led teams of developers, designers and analysts, and I am comfortable explaining trade-offs to senior client stakeholders.
Based in Cape Town, South Africa. Hybrid or remote. Currently an independent AI Solutions Architect on client contracts, and five live AI products.
Independent AI Solutions Architect (2025 to now). Solutions Architect, Yad Vashem (2024 to 2025): AI metadata extraction, RAG and API-led integration. Solutions Architect, AI Wise Solutions (2024). Solutions Architect (contract), Roga Partners (2023 to 2024): Azure and AWS data pipelines.
Lead Solutions Architect at Cuyari (2020 to 2023): led a team of four, designed a multi-tenant analytics platform for Amazon sellers that raised customer operating efficiency by over 90%, and won $150K in Microsoft vendor grant credits.
BSc Engineering (Electrical), University of the Witwatersrand. MCSE. AWS Business Professional. Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate in progress.
Agentic AI, LangGraph, MCP, RAG, LLM applications, Claude and OpenAI APIs, llama.cpp, Ollama, ChromaDB, Claude Code, human-in-the-loop design.
Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, Prisma, SQL, WebSockets, WebRTC, OAuth 2.0, Stripe, WhatsApp Business API.
Azure (Functions, SQL, Data Factory, Logic Apps), AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, Glue, Redshift), Power BI, Tableau, SSIS, ETL, multi-tenant SaaS architecture.
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