Shahil Mawjee is a Head of Engineering with nine years of experience leading technical teams and shipping machine learning and reinforcement learning solutions across African and global startups. With a MSc in Computer Science focused on Reinforcement Learning and hands-on roles from research intern at InstaDeep to technical lead positions at Dragonfruit AI and Kriterion, he blends research rigour with production engineering. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, Shahil has guided teams through applied AI projects and platform delivery while mentoring junior engineers and teaching in academic settings. Curious and adaptable—echoing his quoted philosophy—he brings a learner’s mindset to building scalable ML systems and exploring reinforcement learning innovations beyond typical product work.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - Computer Science Reinforcement Learning, Master of Science - Computer Science Reinforcement Learning at University of the Witwatersrand
Nanodegree Deep Learning, Nanodegree Deep Learning at Udacity
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