Teaching

University of Cape Town

Teaching Assistant - EEE2046F: Embedded Systems I

2023 Semester 1

Led weekly practical sessions for 194 students in coursework covering STM32 C programming and digital logic implementation.
Managed a team of tutors achieving timeous assignment grading and fair marking guidelines.
Assisted with general course administration including the creation of the EEE2046 Practical Instructions Documentation available here on GitHub.

Tutor

EEE2050F: Embedded Systems I (Head Tutor) – 2023 Semester 2
EEE3092F: Signals and Systems II – 2021 Semester 1
CSC1019F/CSC1017F: Introduction to Programming – 2021 Semester 1

Software Development Intern

Thinkst Canary
2021

I participated in a 3 week software development internship hosted by Thinkst Canary, a cyber security company. My work involved expanding their open-source site canarytokens.org to include a Windows Service that, once installed, triggers a Canarytoken if it is killed or uninstalled. This service also gives the option of hibernating the system on trigger.

The Windows service was made in C# in Visual Studio, code integration was done in Python, and the user interface required some HTML/CSS.In the process I became more familiar with Git/GitHub and using Amazon EC2.

GitHub Repository

Carnarytoken UI screenshot

Practical Training

Cape Peninsula University of Technology
2019

I completed a 2 week workshop at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, arranged by UCT, to equip students with practical engineering skills.

CNC work
Welding
Fitting and turning
Basic hand skills
Metrology
Pneumatics
Electrical automation

CNC output.

Welding output carjack.

CPUT workshop

Basic hand skills output.

Fitting and Turning lathe.

Fitting and Turning output.

Volunteering

Regional Science Expo Judge

Cape Town Regionals
2022, 2023, 2025

I volunteer at the Eskom Science Expo in Cape Town (usually in August), where I am part of the Engineering category judging team. It is phenomenal engaging with young students interested in science and engineering.

Science Expo Display

UCT MARIS expo judge volunteers (2023)

With my partner, Matt, at the expo (2025)

With fellow ARU engineer and judge, Shalom (2025)

Secretary

UCT Biomimicry Society
2019

Biomimicry looks to nature for design inspiration when solving problems. I was involved in organising society events, managing announcements for the events, and handling other society administration.

Illustration of Fibonacci spiral arrangement in nature (photo by Leonid Iastremskyi, 2015r)