Michael Hayman
Senior Data Scientist
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolMichael Hayman is a Senior Data Scientist with over a decade of international experience applying economics, climate research, and machine learning to public- and private-sector problems across five continents. Trained in econometrics (UNSW) and data science (Le Wagon), he combines strong statistical foundations with production-grade tooling—Python, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes and cloud platforms—to deliver reproducible, scalable analytics and MLOps. His background spans climate finance and policy research through to enterprise data science roles at HM Land Registry, BT and LexisNexis, where he translates complex domain questions into operational models and dashboards. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed backend enhancements to the well-known ScummVM project (including Hebrew font support and sprite engine work), reflecting a pragmatic low-level coding skillset that complements his ML focus. Ambitiously, Michael is increasing his public technical output and aims to build Afrocentric data solutions informed by indigenous knowledge and precolonial sustainability principles.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Data Science Bootcamp Data Science, Data Science Bootcamp Data Science at Le WagonBachelor of Commerce Economics and Finance, Bachelor of Commerce Economics and Finance at University of Cape TownUNSW Sydney
English, spanish a2, afrikaans b1, french a2
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Github Skills (12)
graphics-engine10
c-language10
engine10
game-development10
cprogramming-language10
game-engine10
font-rendering10
graphic10
game-dev10
multiplatform8
streamlit6
python6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
scummvm/scummvm
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
ScummVM main repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 commits, 10 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the core engine of the ScummVM project. Their work involved fixing formatting issues and adding support for Hebrew fonts. The user's contributions focused on the Pink engine, specifically the Director module, and included removing redundant alignment code in action_text. Furthermore, the user was responsible for implementing initial functionality for superSprites and making adjustments to sprite structures.
scummvmadventure-gamesrpg-enginebadukdm
Quote58/scummvm
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
ScummVM main repository
Contributions:1 PR, 88 pushes, 9 branches in 9 months
scummvm
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