Wimpie West
Analytics Engineer at Element Six
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolWimpie West is an Analytics Engineer with 11 years of experience applying process control, modelling and machine learning to heavy industry problems. He holds a Cum Laude Master's in Electrical and Electronics Engineering where he studied optimal control (including a thesis on Formula One car optimization), and has translated that control-theory rigour into production ML, soft sensors and asset health solutions across mining and chemical operations. At Sasol he progressed from Process Control Engineer to Senior Applied Data Scientist, building mixed-integer optimisers, soft sensors and process-mining tools; later consulting roles scaled those capabilities into Azure Data Lake/Databricks architectures and real-time truck arrival predictions. Now at Element Six, he blends domain expertise with data engineering to improve operational decision-making and uptime, while also focusing on team development and practical deployment. Colleagues know him for turning deep process intuition into robust, deployable models that measurably improve throughput and stability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of Pretoria
Github Skills (20)
solver5
coin-or5
optimization3
constrained-optimization3
optimization-methods3
mixed-integer-programming3
optimizer3
nonlinear-optimization3
matlab2
gradient-descent2
numerical-optimization2
linear-programming2
optimisation2
ipopt2
differentiation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
WJWest/CSC-PVC-Degradation
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 17 pushes, 4 issues in 2 months
matt-weinstein/adigator
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Matlab Algorithmic Differentiation Toolbox
Contributions:1 comment, 4 issues in 1 day
matlabfactorizationdifferentiationtoolboxautomatic-differentiation
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