Thulani Nyama
Data Engineer
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolThulani Nyama is a data engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building analytics and ML solutions across banking and fintech at FNB South Africa, where he progressed from data scientist and quantitative analyst to his current data engineering role. Trained in software engineering and data science, he combines full-stack development instincts with strong data modeling, warehousing and productionization skills to turn complex business problems into reliable pipelines and models. A natural problem solver—shaped by chess, board games and Rubik’s cubes—he brings methodical thinking and a toolbox mentality to debugging and architecture decisions. Known for strong opinions and positive energy, Thulani bridges technical depth and pragmatic delivery across insurance, credit card and corporate actuarial domains.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, NQF Level 5, Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, NQF Level 5 at WeThinkCodeData Science, Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration, NQF Level 5, Data Science, Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration, NQF Level 5 at EXPLORE Data Science Academy
English, Zulu, Sotho, Afrikaans, Tswana, Xhosa, c#
Stackoverflow
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703reached
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Github Skills (24)
predict9
recommender8
classification8
sprint7
tilde7
e-mail6
pip6
pycharm6
streamlit6
webforms6
asp-net6
passwords6
android6
recommender-system6
machine-learning6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ThulaniNyama/Investec
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
Dream-Team-Unsupervised/unsupervised-predict-streamlit-template
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
Streamlit-based recommender system for the EDSA Unsupervised Sprint
Contributions:1 review, 51 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 month
pythonrecommenderunsupervisedmachine-learningstreamlit
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