Richard Wessels
Data Scientist
Stellenbosch Local Municipality, South Africa
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Top SchoolRichard Wessels is a Data Scientist with eight years of software engineering experience, combining postgraduate studies in computer science with hands-on ML and AI work at Praelexis AI. He has progressed from internships building mobile data-collection and sentiment-analysis pipelines to a current role delivering production-ready data science solutions. His background includes algorithm development for cell-tower estimation and sentiment-driven trading models, reflecting a blend of practical systems engineering and applied machine learning. Active in academic teaching and student representation at Stellenbosch, he brings strong communication and mentoring experience alongside technical skills. Based in Stellenbosch, South Africa, Richard is comfortable moving models from research through production and has a demonstrated knack for turning noisy real-world telemetry into actionable insights.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree, Computer Science (Honours degree), Postgraduate Degree, Computer Science (Honours degree) at Stellenbosch UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Stuttgart
English, French, German
Stackoverflow
347reputation
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Github Skills (13)
rounded-corners6
ios6
coredata6
javascript6
macos6
python6
colors6
python-requests6
flask6
instagram5
instagram-api5
deep-learning3
machine-learning2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
RichardWessels/BatchRenamer
Mar 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
RichardWessels/YT_Playback
Nov 2021 - Jun 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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