Umkhulu Chris Silere
Software Developer
Hermanus,WC
Summary
Hardworking and passionate jobseeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level Software Development position. Ready to help team achieve company goals. Enthusiastic technical professional with complete understanding of entire software development lifecycle. Highly trained in Python and Version Control and known for having talents in writing clean code, following PEP 8 naming conventions, documentation, porting and testing.
Overview
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Python Developer Intern
Multilingual Speech Technologies (on behalf of NRF)
Hermanus, Western Cape
04.2019 - 03.2021
- Collaborated on MuST’s deep-learning toolkit which is called mustnet, a codebase for training, testing and analysing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs).
- Co-wrote unit tests and later built a testing framework that encapsulated all these unit tests
- Ported the mustnet codebase from Python 2 to Python 3.
- Received considerable exposure to the domain of deep learning.
- Collaborated effectively with members of software development team and personnel in other departments
- Prepared and submitted reports and other documentation to assist development team members
- Documented technical workflows and knowledge for education of newly hired employees
- Handled scripting tasks for debugging and automation using pytest on the Pycharm IDE
- Partnered with company mentor to learn best practices in software design
- Used development tools such as Bitbucket and Bash on regular basis
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Applied Mathematics
University of Fort Hare
Alice, Eastern Cape 02.2014 - 05.2018
Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Computer Science
University of Fort Hare
Alice, Eastern Cape 02.2018 - 05.2019
Skills
Software Development
Algorithms and data structures
Troubleshooting
Source code review
Administrative tasks
Programming
Program testing software
API design knowledge
Testing and maintenance
Object Oriented Programming
Version Control (Git, Bitbucket)
Linux (Bash fundamentals)
References
Work Mentor : Prof. M Davel
Contact : 0823597889
Life Mentor : Dr. E Madikane
Contact : 0815186744
Colleague : Ms. U Janke
Contact : 0835641564
Colleague : Prof. E Ilunga
Contact : 043820401402
Timeline
Python Developer Intern
Multilingual Speech Technologies (on behalf of NRF)
04.2019 - 03.2021
Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Computer Science
University of Fort Hare
02.2018 - 05.2019
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Applied Mathematics
University of Fort Hare
02.2014 - 05.2018