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Melissa Strydom

Melissa Strydom

Data Solutions Engineer

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Data Solutions Engineer at Entelect

  • Education

    • University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria

      2015 - 2017
      Bachelor of Science (BSc) Actuarial Science

  • Experience

    • Entelect

      Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
      Data Solutions Engineer

    • Telesure Investment Holdings (TIH)

      May 2019 - Mar 2020
      Data Scientist

      - Underinsurance Models: Detecting when policyholders are underinsured, and calculating the correct insured value.- Third Party Motor Accident Severity Models: Calculating the damage to a third party's vehicle based on the initial text captured by the operator at the time the client first notifies us of loss.- Fraud Detection Models: Linking similar identifiers from different policies to create a network of policies, and using this to detect and prevent fraud.- Ad hoc tasks, such as data analysis, setting up reports, looking for trends, pricing of new products etc. Show less

    • Entelect

      Apr 2020 - now

      • Senior Data Solutions Engineer

        Jul 2023 - now

      • Intermediate Data Solutions Engineer

        Jan 2021 - Jun 2023

      • Data Solutions Engineer

        Apr 2020 - Jan 2021

    • Standard Bank Group

      May 2020 - Mar 2024
      Data Engineer and Scientist

      Represented Entelect in the following teams:- Market Rates Services- Quantum Leap- Cross Border Payments- Cross Border Compliance AI

    • Anglo American

      Mar 2024 - Sept 2024
      Data Engineer

      Represented Entelect in the Infrastructure Analytics team.

    • JSE

      Sept 2024 - now
      Data Solutions Engineer

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Intermediate Python for Data Science

      DataCamp

    • Python Data Science Toolbox (Part 1)

      DataCamp

    • Supervised Learning with sci-kit learn

      DataCamp

    • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

      Microsoft
      Apr 2020
      View certificate certificate

    • Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals

      Microsoft
      Aug 2022
      View certificate certificate

    • Natural Language Processing Fundamentals in Python

      DataCamp

    • Cleaning Data in Python

      DataCamp

    • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      Jun 2021
      View certificate certificate

    • Streamlined Data Ingestion with pandas

      DataCamp
      Apr 2020
      View certificate certificate

    • Introduction to Data Engineering

      DataCamp
      Apr 2020
      View certificate certificate

    • Python Data Science Toolbox (Part 2)

      DataCamp