Summary
Wim Olivier is a Principal Consultant specializing in Data, Machine Learning and AI with 10+ years of hands-on experience building large-scale data platforms and real-time ML inference systems. He combines deep systems-level expertise from decades working with UNIX, storage and scale-out architectures with modern cloud-native tooling across AWS, Snowflake, Databricks, Kafka and Terraform. Comfortable in Python, Java and Go, Wim has designed end-to-end pipelines and production ML scoring platforms for major telco and enterprise customers, blending data engineering, automation and product thinking. His background as a Unix/storage engineer gives him rare operational insight into reliability and performance at scale, while his certifications and training in Spark, Scala and Oracle/Java reflect continual upskilling. Based in Pretoria and operating internationally, he thrives on translating complex business problems into pragmatic, measurable data products.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
B.Com, Computer Science, Accounting, B.Com, Computer Science, Accounting at Potchefstroom University, South Africa
Architecting Big Data Solutions, Architecting Big Data Solutions at V2Maestros
Oracle Java SE 11: Programming Complete, Oracle Java SE 11: Programming Complete at Oracle University
Oracle Database 12c SQL Workshop I, Oracle Database 12c SQL Workshop I at Oracle
Developer training for Spark and Hadoop (Python & Scala), Developer training for Spark and Hadoop (Python & Scala) at Cloudera
Afrikaans, English, Japanese