Ruan Van Der Merwe
Lead Software Engineer at Infinite Process Solutions
Stellenbosch Local Municipality, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolRuan Van Der Merwe is a Lead Software Engineer with eight years of multidisciplinary experience spanning mechatronics, robotics, design engineering and software development, currently leading engineering at Infinite Process Solutions while running his own venture, Cuttlefish Projects. He combines practical vehicle and CAD design experience from defense and automotive industries with hands-on robotics and IoT systems integration, and is pursuing a PhD in Artificial Intelligence that informs his ML-focused engineering approach. Comfortable moving between embedded systems, control software and higher-level ML models, he has a knack for turning complex hardware constraints into reliable, production-ready software. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who blends academic rigour with entrepreneurial drive—and who, by his own admission, doubles as a "cat whisperer" when not optimizing algorithms.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Stellenbosch UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
English, Afrikaans, German
Github Skills (36)
bayesian-inference10
reinforcement-learning9
transformers9
python8
machine-learning8
representation-learning8
speech7
tensorflow7
keras7
mask7
deep-learning7
computer-vision6
jax6
api6
face-recognition6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ruanvdmerwe/workplace_screening
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Quick and easy implementation for a Covid-19 workplace screening project. Contains facial recognition and mask detecting classes as well as yes/no speech recognition.
Contributions:85 commits, 24 PRs, 61 pushes in 29 days
maskworkplacescreeningdeep-learningface-recognition
MiiPets/webapp
Dec 2019 - Jun 2020
The web app that users will encounter through a google search.
Contributions:112 PRs, 179 pushes, 46 branches in 6 months
javascriptencountergoogle-search
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