Daniel Wertheimer
Group Lead Knowledge & Insights at Eventful People
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolDaniel Wertheimer is a data and analytics leader with eight years’ experience building high-impact AI and data science capabilities across banking and consumer goods in Africa and the Middle East. He has scaled teams and delivery at Absa—cutting model time-to-production from six months to two weeks—and led regional data strategy and causal experimentation at HEINEKEN before taking on Group Lead: Knowledge & Insights at Coca‑Cola Beverages Africa. Equally comfortable mentoring in-country talent and implementing Responsible AI frameworks, he combines a physics-rooted analytical mindset (BSc/Honours, MSc in Big Data Science) with practical management training from Henley. Active in national AI strategy and advisory roles, he blends hands-on technical delivery with a track record of driving measurable business value. An underrated strength is his ability to translate complex causal methods into business-ready experimentation practices that scale across diverse operating countries.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Information Technology Big Data Science, Masters in Information Technology Big Data Science at University of Pretoria Advanced Diploma in Management Practice Business Administration and Management General, Advanced Diploma in Management Practice Business Administration and Management General at Henley Business School
English
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Github Skills (75)
python-client9
python-ldap9
sink8
pyldap8
apache-spark7
python7
lifecycle7
confluent7
machine-learning7
openldap6
pandas-dataframe6
testing6
ldap-authentication6
ai6
validation6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
AbsaOSS/py2k
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
A Python to Kafka Serialization Tool
Contributions:7 releases, 10 reviews, 108 commits in 7 months
sinkapache-kafkapythonpandas-dataframesserialization
DanWertheimer/pyJDBCConnector
May 2020 - May 2020
A high level connection api for jdbc in python
Contributions:9 releases, 42 commits, 2 PRs in 5 days
apipythonhigh-levelconnectionjdbc
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