Steph Van Schalkwyk
Senior Technical Architect, Lead AI Architect At GenAI Labs at Perficient
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolSteph Van Schalkwyk is a Senior Technical Architect and Lead AI Architect with 11+ years of experience building production-grade AI, NLP, and enterprise search systems across startups and large organizations. He combines deep electrical engineering and signal-processing roots with hands-on expertise in LLMs, Haystack, LangChain, PyTorch/TensorFlow, CUDA, and search platforms like Elasticsearch, SOLR and OpenSearch to deliver high-conversion projects. As an Apache committer, former Allstate principal search engineer and ex-Accenture executive, he bridges research, open-source contribution, and pragmatic enterprise delivery, including commercial support for ManifoldCF. He’s led AI strategy and productization at Perficient GenAI Labs and founded stealth NLP ventures, with proven end-to-end skills from embedded IoT hardware to Kubernetes-deployed ML pipelines. International experience living and working across Europe and Asia informs his culturally aware approach to global deployments and client engagement. Uncommonly for an AI architect, he pairs graduate-level teaching in multiprocessing with low-level stochastic signal analysis and RF/hardware expertise, enabling solutions that span silicon to service.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Lecturer Lecturer in Multi Processor Multi Tasking, Lecturer Lecturer in Multi Processor Multi Tasking at University of Pretoria
Afrikaans, Dutch, German, French, English
Github Skills (200)
opensearch10
automation10
computer-vision10
restful10
python10
ssh10
caffe10
devops10
image-processing10
mouse10
search-engine10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-plugin10
ansible10
java10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
RemcamSearchEngines/autism-speaks
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Resources for pictogram/NLP/OpenCV speech aid.
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 3 days
nlpaidspeechpictogram
RemcamSearchEngines/RemcamSearchEngines.github.io
Feb 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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