Alex Conway
Cape Town, 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
Master of Science Statistics (Advanced Analytics), Master of Science Statistics (Advanced Analytics) at University of Cape TownW22, W22 at Y CombinatorMatric, Matric at Bishops Diocesan College
English, Afrikaans, German, Xhosa
Stackoverflow
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155reached
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Github Skills (55)
classification9
crypto9
nvidia-docker7
convolutional-neural-networks7
super-resolution7
discord-py6
keras6
google-flights6
discord6
timestamp5
aws5
deep-neural-networks5
java5
crc5
scraper5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alxcnwy/DeepLearning4ComputerVision
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
alxcnwy/Deep-Neural-Networks-for-Video-Classification
Dec 2018 - May 2020
Deep Neural Networks for Video Classification
Contributions:109 commits, 104 pushes, 4 comments in 1 year 5 months
classificationdeep-neural-networks
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