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Senior Software Engineer
Culture Hack LabsSenior Software Engineer
Jul. 2022 - Jul. 2024United StatesCulture Hack Labs (CHL) is a not-for-profit consultancy that supports organizations, social movements and activists to create cultural interventions for systems change. Through 2022-24 I was an integral part of the software development team building out The Culture Hack Labs Platform, a technology suite supporting narrative research practitioners to observe, analyse and intervene on narrative ecosystems. My work spanned the entire stack from database & API design, optimising data collection pipelines, AI-assisted workflows, NLP analysis, to intuitive interface design – working primarily with Typescript, Django (Python), GCP & Vercel, and Stencil.js frameworks. Culture Hack Labs (CHL) is a not-for-profit consultancy that supports organizations, social movements and activists to create cultural interventions for systems change. Through 2022-24 I was an integral part of the software development team building out The Culture Hack Labs Platform, a technology suite supporting narrative research practitioners to observe, analyse and intervene on narrative ecosystems. My work spanned the entire stack from database & API design, optimising data collection pipelines, AI-assisted workflows, NLP analysis, to intuitive interface design – working primarily with Typescript, Django (Python), GCP & Vercel, and Stencil.js frameworks. Skills: Software Infrastructure · Software Design · Software Development · TypeScript · Django · Python (Programming Language) · Large Language Models (LLM) · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Narrative Analysis · Natural Language Processing (NLP) · StencilJS · Vercel
System Dynamics (Module Facilitator)
Stellenbosch UniversitySystem Dynamics (Module Facilitator)
May. 2021 - Jun. 2021I co-facilitated the System Dynamics module at the Sustainability Institute led by Dr. Josephine Musango, providing guidance to students and assisting with assignment grading for the cohort. Skills: System Dynamics · Systems Modeling
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Arkology StudioCo-founder | Design engineer
Jan. 2018Transdisciplinary systems design & software engineering studio based in Cape Town. We’re building digital technologies and protocols for the Commons—grounded in a relational, pluralistic, and regenerative ethics. Skills: Software Project Management · Software Development · Product Design · Systems Design · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · Peer-to-peer Computing · P2P · Holochain · Web3 · Blockchain · System Dynamics · Systems Modeling

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