Schalk Heunis
Head Of AI Technology Strategy And Innovation
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolSchalk Heunis is a hands-on executive leading AI technology strategy and innovation at Vodacom with over two decades of data science expertise and 14 years in senior Big Data leadership roles. He combines a PhD in electrical engineering with practical experience deploying large-scale ML and Big Data platforms (Hadoop, Spark, AWS) across telecom, energy, and public-sector projects to drive measurable revenue, cost savings, and customer experience improvements. At Vodacom he scaled teams and delivered Machine Learning as a Service across on-prem and cloud environments, and earlier built parallel stochastic optimization and grid-computing solutions for energy planning. A serial maker and founder of House4Hack, he cultivates grassroots hardware and software innovation that has spawned award-winning 3D printing and IoT ventures—an unusual blend of deep academic rigor and community-driven productization.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical Engineering, PhD, Electrical Engineering at University of StellenboschUniversity of Pretoria
Github Skills (19)
python9
machine-learning9
deep-learning8
tensorflow8
data-science7
neural-network7
heart-rate6
deep-neural-networks5
ml5
bluetooth3
bluetooth-low-energy3
monitor3
access-control2
android2
dsc1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
house4hack/openSHAC
Sep 2011 - Sep 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 1 year
access-controlhousesmart-house
skullkey/wbc-utils
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:57 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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