Kyle Harrison
Lead Data Scientist
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolKyle Harrison is a Lead Data Scientist with eight years' experience building end-to-end machine learning systems that drive credit risk, loan affordability and portfolio optimisation for fintech and enterprise customers. Based in Cape Town, he combines an MS in Electrical Engineering with hands-on software engineering chops to deploy and maintain production inference pipelines, on-premises real-time video inference, and NLP-driven customer insights. He has a track record of turning complex modelling into measurable business impact—designing monitoring, scalability and productionisation around models rather than prototypes. Comfortable across embedded systems, streaming inference and cloud pipelines, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset to data science leadership and a penchant for shipping robust, auditable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical Engineering at University of Cape Town
Github Skills (60)
minimum8
transport7
in-progress7
overpass-api7
spatial-data7
networkx7
geography7
public-transport6
predictor6
spatial6
gis6
pipeline6
currency6
spatial-analysis6
dijkstra6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
KyleHarrison/PoEPricePredictor
Apr 2021 - Mar 2024
A work in progress. Using poe.ninja data dumps a time series predictor will be modelled and used for forecasting future prices of Path of Exile currency and items.
Contributions:20 PRs, 25 pushes, 10 branches in 2 years 11 months
forecastingexilepricesin-progresscurrency
KyleHarrison/venv-manager
Apr 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:22 PRs, 20 pushes, 12 branches in 3 months
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