Russel Daries
Lead AI Engineer at Absa Group
Western Cape, South Africa
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Top SchoolRussel Daries is a Lead AI Engineer with a decade of experience applying machine learning, data science and GenAI to real-world products across fintech and edtech. He holds an MS in Machine Learning from UCL (supervised by Dr. Nicholas Lane) and began his career building embedded flight-control and guidance systems at Denel Dynamics, giving him rare cross-domain expertise from low-level control to production AI. At Luno and Goodwall he scaled data-driven features and models, and now leads AI initiatives at ABSA Group to deliver measurable customer value. A serial founder and educator, he co-founded Qlicked to boost STEM learning in South African high schools and has hands-on experience shipping both academic research (reinforcement learning for robotic locomotion) and commercial systems. Based in the Western Cape, he blends academic rigor with product-focused engineering and an engineer’s comfort with C/C++, MATLAB and modern ML stacks.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, First Class Honours, Engineer's Degree, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, First Class Honours at University of Cape TownNational Senior Certificate, National Senior Certificate at Camps Bay High SchoolUniversity College London
English, Afrikaans
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Github Skills (17)
openai-gym6
machine-learning-models6
ros5
simulation5
robotics4
refer4
deep-reinforcement-learning3
reinforcement-learning3
gazebosim3
ignition3
gazebo-simulator2
robotics-simulation2
gymnasium1
python1
linkedin-api1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
NitishMutha/paintings-emotion-classifier
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:15 commits in 19 days
rdaries29/COMPGI13_Assignment2
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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