Paul Heideman
Chief Technology Officer at Ideaonomy
Knysna Local Municipality, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Heideman is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 12 years of progressive experience building AI-driven solutions and scalable automation for complex logistics and e-commerce systems. He co-led Ocado’s Skunkworks, delivering breakthroughs—from deep learning forecasting that halved food waste to RL-powered 3D routing and vision prototypes for product recognition—then moved into autonomous mobility and safety-focused integrations. Now leading Ideaonomy, he applies collaborative AI to tackle large societal problems while advising clients on AI rollouts that delivered measurable warehouse efficiency gains. A Rhodes University computer science honours graduate, Paul combines hands-on algorithmic expertise with strategic product and compliance leadership, and has a track record of turning experimental R&D into production-impacting features.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Hons) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (Hons) Computer Science at Rhodes University
Github Skills (97)
python10
blockly10
edtech10
django10
coding10
portal10
deep-learning9
maven9
intellij9
machine-learning9
java9
opencl8
neural-network8
gpgpu8
cpp8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
paulheideman/vimfiles
Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:13 pushes in 2 years 6 months
paulheideman/oc-freddy
Mar 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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