André Nortje
Electronic Engineer at INCOMAR
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolAndré Nortje is an electronic engineer with eight years’ experience building safety-critical embedded software and digital gateware for unmanned aerospace and launch vehicle avionics. He has progressed from embedded systems development to senior roles designing flight control units and Neutron flight computers, combining firmware, FPGA design, and hardware-in-the-loop simulation. A Cum Laude MEng from Stellenbosch, his research applied deep learning to image and video compression—an uncommon blend of ML insight with deterministic avionics engineering. Based in Pretoria, he has a track record of authoring requirements, mentoring junior engineers, and shipping auditable, safety-focused systems for high-stakes aerospace programs.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Cum Laude, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Cum Laude at Stellenbosch UniversityNational Senior Certificate, Distinction, National Senior Certificate, Distinction at York High School
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (12)
video-compression9
ssim8
optical-flow7
machine-learning4
compression4
deep-learning3
pytorch3
video-processing3
patch3
tensorflow3
inpainting2
image-compression2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kamperh/suzerospeech2019
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:25 commits in 27 days
adnortje/binet
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
BINet: a binary inpainting network for patch-based image compression
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 month
patchcompressionimage-compressioninpainting
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