Anri Lombard

Anri Lombard

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Honours Student 👨‍🎓 | Software/ML Engineer 👷‍♂️

  • Education

    • University of Cape Town

      2021 - 2023
      Bachelor of Science Computer Science and Mathematical Statistics

      Here I made computers go beep boop 🙂

    • University of Cape Town

      2024 - 2024
      Bachelor of Science (Hons) Computer Science

      Researching Large Language Models for applications in Drug Discovery under the supervision of Professor Jan Buys and in collaboration with InstaDeep

  • Experience

    • University of Cape Town

      Feb 2022 - Nov 2022

      Course: CSC1016S Course: CSC1015F

      • Computer Science Tutor

        Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
      • Computer Science Tutor

        Feb 2022 - Jun 2022
    • SprintHive - Intelligent Customer Onboarding

      Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
      Software Development Engineer

      Led a 3-person team to coordinate together and build a data-tagging application with a React.js frontend MongoDB backend.

    • University of Cape Town

      Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
      Computer Science Tutor

      Course: CSC2001F

    • HyperionDev

      Aug 2023 - Jul 2024

      Curated and delivered high-quality lecture materials covering a wide range of topics in data science and machine learning. These topics included:- Introductory concepts in common libraries such as Pandas, Numpy, and Scikit-learn- Data visualization using libraries like Matplotlib and Seaborn- Intermediate theory in fundamental supervised and unsupervised learning techniques- Cutting-edge theory on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, developing applications with Large Language Models (LLMs), and reinforcement learning for modern applicationsThe content was designed to empower committed students to make an impact in the companies they will joinLed the initiative to make our content publicly available through open-source, enabling those unable to finance their learning journey to access high-quality materials for free. Provided students in our bootcamp with exclusive live walkthroughs demonstrating how these concepts apply through examples drawn from my own and my colleagues' software engineering experienceInteracted with and directly taught over 2,000 unique students during my tenure, delivering over 320 hours of live lectures. Developed proficiency in conveying complex technical jargon to a diverse audience, engaging with people of varying technical backgrounds, from beginners to those with PhD-level expertiseConsistently received perfect scores from internal reviewers for lecture quality, content depth, clarity, and student engagement during lectures Show less

      • Data Science Lecturer

        Feb 2024 - Jul 2024
      • Coding Mentor

        Aug 2023 - Jan 2024
    • SprintHive - Intelligent Customer Onboarding

      Nov 2023 - Feb 2024
      Software Development Engineer

      Successfully automated the process of fetching and displaying business metrics on the company's main website, utilizing Google Cloud and Wix. This significantly reduces manual intervention, and the features were designed to be low/no cost to the company.Developed a self-contained, scheduled loop for backing up all company Nuclino documents using Google Cloud and the Nuclino API, ensuring redundancy and safety of critical documents.Created a data extractor machine learning model on Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, enhancing the generalizability and accuracy of our payslip data extraction process, and contributing to better income verification for our partners.Fine-tuned an open-source NLP model for document anonymization, reinforcing our commitment to security and privacy by safeguarding Personal Identifiable Information. Show less

    • SprintHive - Intelligent Customer Onboarding

      May 2024 - now
      Software Development Engineer

      Building Gandalf an AI-driven wand 🧙‍♂️

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Anri Lombard
      Degree awarded in First Class University of Cape Town Dec 2024
    • Awarded to Anri Lombard
      Phd is surviving a pandemic - Oct 2021 C'mon, just let me have it
    • Awarded to Anri Lombard
      11th in Namibia Matric 2020 Namibia Jan 2021
    • Awarded to Anri Lombard
      Top Mathematics student in Namibia 2020 Namibia Jan 2021
    • Awarded to Anri Lombard
      Dux learner in Afrikaans, English, and Mathematics 2020 - Nov 2020
    • Awarded to Anri Lombard
      School Salutatorian grade 12 Windhoek High School Sep 2020
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Core Contributor

      Issued by GitHub on Jun 2022
      GitHubAssociated with Anri Lombard