Adi Eyal
Director at Centre for Collaborative Investigative Journalism
Cape Town Area, South Africa
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Top SchoolAdi Eyal is a Director and founder of OpenUp and Code for South Africa, with 14+ years of experience applying data, machine learning and web engineering to drive civic impact and media innovation. He built and launched South Africa’s first data journalism academy and a data-driven newsroom, and has helped governments and civil society use open data to improve transparency and service delivery. Equally at home in research and product delivery, his background spans low-latency trading algorithms, machine learning for NLP and entity resolution, and building mobile data portals for regional healthcare projects. An award-winning data storyteller and Open Knowledge ambassador, he mixes practical engineering (including open-source contributions to tooling for creative ML workflows) with advocacy for democratic, usable data. He has lectured in computer science and web development, and serves on boards that promote transparent, accountable governance. Notably, he pairs deep algorithmic experience with hands-on civic tech deployment—turning complex data pipelines into tools ordinary people can use.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Honours - First Class, Computer Science, BSc Honours - First Class, Computer Science at University of Cape TownMasters (coursework completed), Computer Science, Masters (coursework completed), Computer Science at The Hebrew University
English, Hebrew
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Github Skills (8)
python10
regular-expression8
sampling6
openrefine6
loops6
django6
gradio5
csv4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
adieyal/sd-dynamic-prompts
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
A custom script for AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui to implement a tiny template language for random prompt generation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 331 commits, 77 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Adi primarily contributed to the `sd-dynamic-prompts` repository by fixing bugs related to prompt interpretation and generation. They addressed an issue where the number of batches was incorrectly interpreted, and subsequently re-enabled grid generation. Furthermore, the user made enhancements by incorporating recursive globbing, wildcard file comments, and refactoring UI code, while also improving wildcard and combination handling. They also added a feature to save the raw prompt to the image metadata.
tinystablediffusionwebuidiffusiontemplate-language
adieyal/elections-candidates-2019
Mar 2019 - Nov 2021
Data visualisation of the gender and age distribution of South African political parties
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
agepartiesafricanvisualisationpolitical
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