Ritesh Kanjee
Founder And Director at Augmented AI
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolRitesh Kanjee is a founder and director with a decade of experience building AI-driven systems that let businesses scale without proportional headcount growth. He leads Augmented AI, producing courses, videos and projects that democratize computer vision and generative AI, and sits on the advisory board of the South African AI Association where he helps bridge industry, academia and startups. His hands-on background spans FPGA and embedded image-processing design to deploying CNN-based object detection (YOLO, SSD, Faster-RCNN) in real-world and resource-constrained environments like Raspberry Pi with NCS acceleration. Trained to master vision-based control systems at the University of Johannesburg, he combines deep engineering rigor with an educator’s knack for making complex AI approachable. Notably, he leverages drones, LLMs and generative models in practical training content that has reached large audiences, reflecting a rare mix of research, product delivery and public-facing technical teaching.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Matric With Distinction Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Matric With Distinction Electrical/Electronic Engineering at Sacred Heart College, ObservatoryUniversity of Johannesburg 
Github Skills (85)
detectors10
yolov710
yolov510
infer10
object-detection10
computer-vision10
tensorrt10
sam10
modular9
darknet9
yolov89
opencv9
implicit9
deep-learning9
explicit9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
augmentedstartups/Vuforia_AR_Course
Feb 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
augmentedstartups/mask-rcnn
Feb 2019 - Mar 2021
Contributions:40 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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