Hercules Smith
Software Engineer at Metal Management Solutions
George, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolHercules Smith is a software engineer with eight years of experience who blends systems development, data science operations, and hands-on engineering to deliver end-to-end solutions. He has moved from data science internships and ops specialist roles into a software engineering position at Metal Management Solutions, bringing practical experience landing millions of datapoints in BigQuery and building React frontends for prototypes. An avid Rust and performance enthusiast, he has implemented an arbitrary-precision BigNumber library, binary trees, and Huffman coding in Rust, and sped up Python recommender algorithms by rewriting core SVD components in Cython. Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, he consistently takes initiative to turn abstract problems into production-ready systems. Based in George, South Africa, he pairs a curious, self-directed learning mindset with a track record of creative, performance-focused engineering.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
National Certificate: Information Technology: Systems Development, National Certificate: Information Technology: Systems Development at ExploreAI AcademyNational Senior Certificate, National Senior Certificate at Witteberg Highschool
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (89)
crawler10
extensible10
webscraping10
monorepo10
recommender10
angular10
cli10
nodejs10
svd10
web-crawler10
scraper10
factorization10
react10
javascript9
markdown9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ProfHercules/imba-auto-state
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:12 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
ProfHercules/firebase-tools
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
The Firebase Command Line Tools
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 months
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