Laura Richter
Data Scientist
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolLaura Richter is a data scientist with 14 years of experience translating large-scale scientific and commercial datasets into production-ready analytics and ML solutions. With a PhD in Radio Astronomy, she moved from real-time stream processing for MeerKAT telescopes into fintech and enterprise roles, building document automation, borrower-behaviour models and cloud data pipelines. Since 2018 she has been driving data science initiatives at Aruba (HPE), combining research rigor with pragmatic engineering to operationalize models at scale. She has freelance and technical writing experience, producing clear how-tos and guides that bridge technical teams and stakeholders. Based in the Western Cape, South Africa, she blends deep domain expertise in signal processing and statistical modelling with hands-on software development for data operations. An understated strength is her ability to move between academic-grade research problems and production constraints, making complex methods usable in real-world systems.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Physics, Radio Astronomy, Master of Science (MSc), Physics, Radio Astronomy at Rhodes University / University of Cape Town (NASSP)Hudson Park High SchoolHudson Park Primary SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Radio Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Physics, Radio Astronomy at Rhodes University
Github Skills (93)
telescope10
data-access10
pypi10
modular9
formatter9
sql9
linter9
jumpstart9
client-library8
r8
regression7
deep-learning7
computation7
onnx7
hardware-acceleration7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
LauraRichter/inception-transfer
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:55 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
ska-sa/tutorials
Aug 2014 - Jan 2017
Contributions:102 commits, 2 PRs, 34 pushes in 2 years 6 months
pythondata-sciencejupyter-notebookipython-notebooksnotebooks
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