Simphiwe Mayisela

Gauteng, South Africa

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Simphiwe Mayisela is an information security and governance leader with over six years of senior experience and a longer history of technical roles across banking, government, and large enterprises. As Managing Director of SS-Consulting and a current short-term FinTech and cybercrime expert for the SADC Secretariat, he blends consulting, policy, and hands-on security program delivery to align risk controls with business objectives. He has held executive and architect roles—Group Information Security Officer at Internet Solutions and Head of Information Security at the Public Investment Corporation—driving ISMS, enterprise security architecture, and incident coordination. Academically grounded with an MSc in Information Security and ongoing doctoral studies in Business Leadership/Cybersecurity, he combines deep technical knowledge with strategic leadership. An early organiser in the professional community as founder of the (ISC)2 Gauteng Chapter, he brings both governance discipline and a practical bent for implementing auditable, regulatory-compliant controls.

6 years of coding experience

1 year of employment as a software developer

Bsc Eng (Chemical), Bsc Eng (Chemical) at University of Cape Town

Matric, Matric at Pace College

University of South Africa

ITBLP, IT Banking Learneship Programme, ITBLP, IT Banking Learneship Programme at Tshwane University of Technology

Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers, Finance, General, Financial Management for Non-Financial Managers, Finance, General at Stellenbosch University

Doctor of Business Leadership, Business/Managerial Economics, Doctor of Business Leadership, Business/Managerial Economics at Unisa Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL)

MSc, Information Security, MSc, Information Security at Rhodes University

English

Github Skills (20)

javascript10

nodejs10

tilde10

data-science9

agile9

jupyter-notebook8

classification8

random-forest8

regression8

natural-language-generation8

discord7

automated-machine-learning7

automl6

scikit-learn6

natural-language-processing6

Programming languages (6)

CSSSCSSTeXHTMLJupyter NotebookPython

Github contributions (5)

TheAbstract/ACN-syllabus

Feb 2021 - Aug 2022

This is the syllabus that we load into our main instance of Tilde.

Contributions:10 PRs, 14 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months

javascriptnodejssyllabustilde

TheAbstract/notes

Oct 2019 - Jan 2025

Contributions:21 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 4 months

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