Alex Conway
Founder at NumberBoost
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolAlex Conway is a founder and AI/crypto engineer with a decade of experience building production AI systems and startups from South Africa's Western Cape. He founded NumberBoost in 2016 and has repeatedly won high-profile innovation challenges (Mercedes‑Benz, NTT Japan, Lloyd’s Register, MultiChoice) and hackathons across the Ethereum ecosystem, demonstrating both product focus and deep technical chops. His background spans applied ML, computer vision and real‑time industrial AI—grounded in an MSc in Statistics and early experience as a quant and data scientist at leading African firms. A Y Combinator W22 alum and serial co‑founder, he blends hands‑on engineering with product intuition, shipping on‑chain AI agents and factory OS solutions. He’s been coding since age 10 and runs NumberBoost to deliver custom AI solutions, often turning competition prototypes into practical, award‑winning products.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
W22, W22 at Y CombinatorMaster of Science, Statistics (Advanced Analytics), Master of Science, Statistics (Advanced Analytics) at University of Cape TownMatric, Matric at Bishops Diocesan College
English, Afrikaans, German, Xhosa
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (63)
convolutional-neural-networks10
cryptocurrency10
classification9
crypto9
cryptography9
ethereum9
cnn-classification8
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
discord-py6
discord6
keras6
tensorflow6
utc6
google-flights6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alxcnwy/DeepLearning4ComputerVision
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
alxcnwy/neuralbenford
Aug 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:36 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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