Juan Uys
Founder at PDFCrunch
Cheltenham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJuan Uys is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 15 years' experience building web and AI systems, currently running PDFCrunch where he delivers bespoke document data extraction solutions. He combines deep practical expertise in document understanding, OCR and LLM fine-tuning with a strong cloud-native background—having productionised extraction models, built scalable AWS Lambda/SQS architectures, and integrated notification flows for government services. His work spans research and engineering, from experimenting with compact open-source LLMs and layout-detection models to shipping reliable ETL, APIs and backend systems across startups and large enterprises. A pragmatic hands-on leader, Juan has driven projects that cut underwriting times from weeks to minutes and has participated in NVIDIA’s Inception programme, reflecting both technical depth and commercial impact. Based in Cheltenham, he pairs academic study in AI and indie games development with an appetite for unconventional tech humor and experimentation.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Indie Games Development, Master's degree Indie Games Development at Falmouth UniversityUniversity of Johannesburg 
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Github Skills (200)
serverless10
ecosystem10
api10
html10
css10
scraper10
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assemble10
multiprocessing10
twitter10
build-configuration10
game-engine10
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docker-compose10
kubernetes10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
opyate/busy-campers-workout
Jun 2013 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
pdfcrunch/pdfcrunch.github.io
Aug 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 releases, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 3 months
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