Israel Tshililo

Experience

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  University of Cape Town Glendower Residence

  Feb 2009 - Nov 2009

  Student Receptionist/Front Desk Assistance
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  University of Cape Town Glendower Residence

  Feb 2010 - Nov 2010

  Sub-Warden

  [Maintenance, Security, Disciplinary and Academic portfolio]Assisted the Warden and Residence Facilitation Officer with the management of Glendower residence with regard to portfolio's mentioned above.Organised and Chair disciplinary hearing for offenses committed in the residence.

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  University of Cape Town

  Jul 2012 - Jun 2013

  In this position I tutored a fourth year electrical engineering (EEE4084f) course. This position required that I prepare and test some of the practical assignments before being released to students, also included supervising student during labs session, and the marking of the assignments and test submissions. I also provided support to three different teams 2-3 students with their final semester project designing digital accelerators to be implemented on Xilinx Nexys2/3 FPGA boards, as a Manager/Supervisor to the project. Show less

  • Digital Systems Tutor

    Jan 2013 - Jun 2013

  • C++ and VHDL Programming Tutor

    Jul 2012 - Jun 2013
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  Santiware

  Aug 2013 - Nov 2013

  Digital Systems Engineer

  My role involved research into an FPGA based GPS station, wherein I developed a prototype solution using customizing open-source repositories and tested software for FPGAsAlso developed and maintain digital signal processing software for mobile phones, tablet devices and embedded systems. Designed a prototype data transfer application using radio, similar to the CHIRP app.

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  Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CHPC)

  Mar 2014 - Mar 2016

  Masters Student
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  Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) : CHPC

  May 2016 - Nov 2020

  HPC System Engineer

  Develop custom drivers and add-ons for the Opennebula cloud platform, in order to provision/facilitate a HPC clusters over a virtualized environment.Develop a complete HPC software stack used for the provisioning and management of HPC clusters using the puppet. As well as providing training on how to provision and configure HPC clusters for the CHPC Student Cluster Competition, SKA partner countries and other South African institutes that form part of the HPC-ecosystem project.

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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Nov 2020 - now

  Cloud Support Engineer