Roy Johal
Director & Founder at Industry Capability Network - Victoria
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRoy Johal is a Melbourne-based technology leader and founder with 10 years of experience bridging research, product and operational delivery across finance, insurance and innovation-driven startups. He currently leads Rossignol Group while advising industry capability at Victoria, drawing on prior roles as Head of Tech Risk and senior management consultant to design GRC, fraud and new-business programs. Roy pairs hands-on back-end engineering—contributing PDF text-extraction and list-detection logic to the open-source Parsr project—with executive strategy, making him comfortable moving between code-level detail and boardroom planning. His academic background in research and multiple executive MBAs (AGSM, Stockholm, Yale) underpins a data-driven, risk-aware approach to scaling teams and processes. Not obvious from his title: he has deep practical experience implementing document-processing algorithms and treating extracted images and paragraphs for structured-data pipelines. He brings a rare combination of scientific research roots and commercial delivery muscle to complex, regulated transformation initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at Stockholm School of EconomicsExecutive MBA, Executive MBA at Yale School of ManagementExecutive MBA, Executive MBA at AGSM @ UNSW Business SchoolMaster of Research, Master of Research at Université Grenoble AlpesBachelor of Technology - BTech, Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar
English, French, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (2)
python10
algorithms7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
axa-group/Parsr
Aug 2019 - May 2020
Transforms PDF, Documents and Images into Enriched Structured Data
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 1 review, 211 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Roy made contributions focused on text extraction and integration with PDF files using the pdfminer library. The primary task involved the creation and modification of a pdfminer extractor to extract data from PDF documents. Further work included the addition of a list detection algorithm implemented in Python to identify and categorize list elements within the extracted text data, as well as improvements in handling the extracted images. This user also contributed to the overall structure, implementing functionality to properly treat paragraphs.
nlpextractionpythondatapdf
aarohijohal/.emacs.d
Dec 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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