Grant Zietsman
Machine Learning Engineer at Capitec
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolGrant Zietsman is a Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years’ experience building production ML systems and leading teams across e-commerce and defence sectors. He has driven measurable business impact at Takealot—leading hybrid semantic search upgrades that boosted conversion and scaled recommendations—while also delivering real-time computer vision on embedded hardware at Saab Grintek Defence. Comfortable at the intersection of research and engineering, he designs low-latency microservices, optimises costs, and validates decisions through A/B testing and controlled experiments. Now based in the Western Cape and currently at Capitec, he brings a data-informed, industry-aware mindset and a track record of turning complex ML architectures into operational, high-impact products.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, NSC, High School, NSC at Pretoria Boys High SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng. Cum Laude), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng. Cum Laude), Computer Engineering at University of Pretoria
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (77)
npm-package10
validation10
checker10
converter10
validate10
csv9
schema9
extensible9
image9
npm9
type-checking9
code-generator8
integration-testing8
python8
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
grant-zietsman/validate-typescript
Nov 2017 - Aug 2019
Extensible schema based validator that supports typescript typing.
Contributions:79 commits, 3 PRs, 63 pushes in 1 year 8 months
validationnpm-packagevalidation-libraryvalidatornpm
grant-zietsman/rapid-profile
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:6 commits in 3 months
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