Nishai Kooverjee
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at X-idian
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolNishai Kooverjee is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience designing and deploying production-grade ML/AI systems across sectors including mining, telecoms, retail, healthcare and utilities. With an MSc in Computer Science from Wits University and a strong research background, he combines rigorous statistical foundations with practical MLOps to turn prototypes into scalable microservices on Kubernetes. He has led ML efforts from founding an in-house team to optimizing LTE tower placement, modelling industrial pumping risk, and automating supply-chain pipelines for South Africa’s largest e-retailer. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs hands-on modelling with platform-building—mentoring juniors and introducing robust retraining, monitoring and deployment practices. Based in Johannesburg, he’s resourceful and creative, with a habit of exploring problems through geospatial and domain-specific lenses that reveal non-obvious operational improvements. Outside work he’s an avid reader, coffee brewer and traveller, which he credits for keeping ideas fresh and user-focused.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MSc Computer Science, Master of Science - MSc Computer Science at University of the WitwatersrandNational Senior Certificate, National Senior Certificate at Greenside High School
Github Skills (18)
forecast8
prediction8
trend7
prophet7
python5
artificial-intelligence4
pytorch4
letter4
time-series4
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
forecasting4
scanning4
neural3
neural-network3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nishai/Person-Detection-SVM-HOG
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
nishai/Graph-Network-Transfer
May 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:115 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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