Rockefeller R
Data Scientist (Senior Associate)
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolRockefeller R is a data scientist with a decade of experience building generative AI and agentic systems, currently shaping LLM-powered pipelines and RAG solutions for legal tech at Morae. He blends rigorous academic training—a PhD in Applied Mathematics in progress and an M.Sc. in Big Data—with practical expertise deploying GenAI to automate legal-document workflows and extract structured insights. As an educator and former lecturer at Cape Peninsula University of Technology and AIMS, he routinely translates complex algorithms into teachable, production-ready code and has supervised student research on urban growth and service delivery. His background includes hands-on work with ELK stacks for real-time analytics and API-driven geospatial research for fiscal decentralization, showing a rare mix of research, teaching, and applied engineering. Based in Cape Town, he pairs cross-continental research stints (RWTH Aachen) with practical product delivery, bringing domain-aware ML solutions to regulated sectors. Notably, he describes himself on GitHub as "eleve du reel," reflecting a practitioner mindset grounded in real-world problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Certificate in Business Management Business Analytics and Strategy, Postgraduate Certificate in Business Management Business Analytics and Strategy at ESMT BerlinMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Physics (GeoPhysics), Master of Science (M.Sc.) Physics (GeoPhysics) at University de Yaoundé IBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics at University of DoualaMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Big Data and Machine learning, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Big Data and Machine learning at African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Applied Mathematics (Data Science), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Applied Mathematics (Data Science) at Stellenbosch University
French, English
Github Skills (5)
cross-correlation6
template-matching5
seismology4
python3
earthquake3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rock-feller/HCNNs_and_Chaos
Aug 2024 - Feb 2025
In this repo, you will find all the codes that were used in various experiments for my PhD. This includes, HCNN and RNN modules for the modeling of chaotic systems
Contributions:2 PRs, 51 pushes, 16 branches in 6 months
rock-feller/Datasets_for_Education
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:46 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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