About
An engineer who wants the hardware, the maths and the business case to line up.
Based in Cape Town, South Africa. Equally at home behind an oscilloscope, in a Python notebook, or in a room explaining a licensing pathway to a regulator.
I am a final-year BEng(Hons) Electrical and Computer Engineering student at the University of Cape Town, working on Kwama, a stablecoin-based cross-border payments platform.
My interests span embedded systems, RF hardware, digital signal processing and applied cryptography — with hands-on work ranging from satellite communications research to fintech infrastructure to commercial IoT deployments.
What connects those threads is a preference for problems where the answer has to survive contact with the real world: a Doppler estimator that still works when the signal is adversarial, a meter that still bills honestly when nobody is watching, a radio node that still reports its position under sea ice.
Education
Academic background
- 2023 – 2026
BEng(Hons) Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Cape Town
Dean's List.
- Current
Incubated venture — Kwama
UCT GenesisBloc Financial Innovation Hub
Building regulated cross-border payments infrastructure while completing the degree.
Industry exposure
Time on the factory floor, not only in the lab
Working alongside the assembly and rigging teams on large power transformer builds — from core and coil assembly through to abnormal-load dispatch — taught me how design decisions land on the people who have to build and move the thing.
Beyond the lab
Away from the bench
Engineering is most of my week. The rest of it is usually a bike, a guitar, or a soldering iron on the desk at home.
