Rishal Hurbans
Director at Prolific Idea
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolRishal Hurbans is a director and founder with 11 years of experience building AI-driven products and leading engineering teams from South Africa. He has launched and scaled startups (Viszen, Prolific Idea) and community initiatives (Artificial Intelligence ZA) while advising enterprises on product strategy and technical architecture at Entelect. An applied ML engineer and published author of Grokking Artificial Intelligence Algorithms, he contributes practical implementations of swarm intelligence and reinforcement learning to the community. Comfortable bridging research and delivery, he pairs hands-on algorithm work with client-facing advisory and team mentorship. Outside work he curates a “brain food” newsletter, reflecting a habit of synthesising complex ideas into accessible insights.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of Pretoria
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (6)
algorithm10
machine-learning10
python10
ai10
reinforcement-learning10
machine-learning-algorithms8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rishal-hurbans/Grokking-Artificial-Intelligence-Algorithms
May 2019 - Jul 2021
The official code repository supporting the book, Grokking Artificial Intelligence Algorithms
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:32 commits, 3 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rishal contributed significantly to the implementation of artificial intelligence algorithms within the repository. They added examples for Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), demonstrating proficiency in swarm intelligence techniques. Furthermore, they implemented and showcased machine learning algorithms, including linear regression and decision trees, to further illustrate their understanding of the core topics. Their contributions also show understanding of the reinforcement learning algorithm and its application in an auto simulator environment.
pythonant-colony-optimizationq-learningclassification-algorithmdata-science
rishal-hurbans/Java-Collections
Jul 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
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