Kaluba Chikonde
Data Engineer At Teraflow
Johannesburg,Gauteng
Summary
Voted as one of the Next Generation Women Leaders 2020 by McKinsey and Company. Driven by compassion, helps build the youth to excel in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Possesses extensive leadership experience, particularly within a higher education setting. Developed strong communication, as well as interpersonal skills through public speaking and working in a client-centred environment.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Software Developer
Teraflow
Johannesburg, South Africa
01.2021 - Current
- Developed scalable rewards component of Kulula Mobile App that would integrate all their reward partners to reduce onboarding and maintenance times.
- Experience with Google foundational cloud services for storage, computation, event processing, messaging, data processing and analytics.
Data Engineer
Teraflow
Johannesburg, South Africa
01.2021 - Current
- Developing feature generation pipelines on AWS for one of South Africa's largest retail banks to enable more scalable and maintainable environment, with appropriate monitoring.
Co-Founder/Head of Curriculum
Coding4Finance
Cape Town, South Africa
08.2019 - Current
- Having identified digital skills gap in curriculum, collaboratively founded online programme to teach students and young professionals with no prior coding experience how to code in Python.
- Key techniques: Analyzing large data sets, visualizing data and introduction to data science.
UCT Plus Programme Assistant
UCT Careers Service
Cape Town, South Africa
02.2020 - 10.2020
- Improved operations through working in Excel to analyze and visualize data for student event attendance and feedback reports.
- Integrated software platforms such as Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Forms, Typeform and Microsoft Excel to build streamlined process for UCT Plus Programme.
- Frontline service to current and past UCT students, as well as visitors, providing them with appropriate career-related information and professional development opportunities.
Research and Survey Statistics Tutor
University of Cape Town, Department of Statistical Sciences
Cape Town, South Africa
02.2018 - 07.2018
- Collaboratively conducted test and exam workshops for class of 80 students with fellow tutors in order to effectively prepare students for tests and final exams.
- Key statistical techniques: Classification Trees, Clustering and Natural Language Processing
Applied Statistics Tutor
University of Cape Town, Department of Statistical Sciences
Cape Town, South Africa
02.2018 - 07.2018
- Facilitated two weekly R lab sessions and one weekly tutorial session
- Taught class of 30 students how to apply statistical methods and modelling techniques to numerical and categorical data.
- Key statistical techniques: Non-parametrics , Multivariate Linear Regression, Logistic Regression and Time Series analysis.
Education
Master of Philosophy - Data Science Specialising in Financial Technology
University of Cape Town
Cape Town 01.2020 - Current
Bachelor of Business Science - Analytics
University of Cape Town,
South Africa 02.2014 - 11.2018
Certification
Featured in Brainstorm Magazine's November 2021 issue for master's research on fraud detection on the Bitcoin Blockchain.
Additional Information
Public Speaking
- Professional speaker at Speakers Inc, South Africa's Largest Speakers’ Bureau
- Toastmaster at Mariswe Toastmasters and Toastmasters International
- Addressing the importance of women in leadership as a panelist speaker at the Women In Finance event - collaboration between UCT InvestSoc and AIFMRM.
- Demystifying blockchain, cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, how one can access it and some of the risks associated with cryptocurrencies at the UCT Zimbabwean Society Financial Webinar Series
- UCT Cryptocurrency and Artificial Intelligence society speaker for Breaking into Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with DeepLearning.AI
Timeline
Featured in Brainstorm Magazine's November 2021 issue for master's research on fraud detection on the Bitcoin Blockchain.
11-2021
Software Developer
Teraflow
01.2021 - Current
Data Engineer
Teraflow
01.2021 - Current
McKinsey & Company's Next Generation Women Leaders (NGWL) 2020 - selected as 1 of 300 women leaders from over 6000 applicants worldwide to participate in the 3-day event consisting of workshops, discussions, and inspirational talks focused on centered leadership and confidence building.
05-2020
UCT Plus Programme Assistant
UCT Careers Service
02.2020 - 10.2020
Master of Philosophy - Data Science Specialising in Financial Technology
University of Cape Town
01.2020 - Current
Ethereum Blockchain Developer Programme Certification by ConsenSys Academy
01-2020
Co-Founder/Head of Curriculum
Coding4Finance
08.2019 - Current
Research and Survey Statistics Tutor
University of Cape Town, Department of Statistical Sciences
02.2018 - 07.2018
Applied Statistics Tutor
University of Cape Town, Department of Statistical Sciences
02.2018 - 07.2018
Bachelor of Business Science - Analytics
University of Cape Town,
02.2014 - 11.2018
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