Deep Learning Café

CEO & Founder

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Barista

Tracker South Africa

Software Development Manager

Newsclip Media Monitoring

Design, build and run with innovative concepts.

Tracker

Developer

Elogics

Design and developed GIS logistics systems.

Technical Lead

I've filled pivotal leadership positions in tech for more than 15 years. Helping major South African companies improve their product and service offerings, I’m particularly passionate about unlocking the value where Ai intersects with business problems. 

My hands-on approach helps organizations achieve remarkable, tangible outcomes by closely aligning innovation with objectives. Often, new value streams and diversified creativity are birthed as a result. 

Ai is why I get up in the morning. The only way to make my clients' 'impossible' possible is to relentlessly chip away at core issues with a learning mindset.

It’s a real privilege to lead our team of outstanding baristas at:
•	Deep Learning Café 
•	DocInsights

The Deep Learning Café helps businesses boost profits, save time, reduce costs – and innovate! Every business, every industry, we solve your unsolvable problems. DocInsights, our customizable proprietary software, transforms data management and revolutionizes workflow processes.

Ultimately, our Ai closes the gap to your fullest potential. Ding-ding, your new future is served!

www.deeplearning-cafe.com | www.docinsights.co

Dries Cronje

Melio AI

Melio is an MLOps consultancy. We help our clients deploy and commercialise their AI projects. Our clients include banks, insurances, technology, healthcare and manufacturing. Through our experience developing and deploying AI models across three different continents, we have started to build our product Highwind.

Highwind is an AI marketplace that lets data scientists search, extend, buy and sell their AI use cases. We adopt the use case-centric approach to ensure that the packaged use cases on our marketplace are solving real business problems.

Co-Founder & CEO

I am a data scientist and team lead responsible for leading a team in prototyping, implementing and delivering data science solutions. My focus area is in developing machine learning models, hypothesis testing as well as assisting in model deployment. My role is largely dependent on the project need, ranging from data wrangling and piping, feature engineering, building machine learning models, data visualisation, coaching junior team members, as well as planning, delivering and coordinating data science workstreams. I was involved in the following projects: early detection of businesses in financial distress (team lead), customer segmentation in the financial industry (data science stream lead), business-lead identification using NLP (team member).

Lead Data Scientist | Team Lead

Business Science Corporation

I have consulted in various sectors, using a fact-based and data-driven approach to deliver customer-centric solutions to our clients. 

My responsibilities include:data analytics/engineering/science, products management (development, performance tracking and optimization), financial modelling, data visualisation and dashboard creation and supporting the decision making process through data.

Specific projects include:

-  Major Telecommunications Company: Financial modelling, decision support, dashboard creation in various platforms, social network analysis and CVM campaign analysis
-  Major Media and Entertainment Company: Data analytics, referral campaign modelling, Database engineering and administration, ETL process development, dashboard creation
-  Internet Service provider: Data cleaning and consolidation, churn prediction model
-  Internal Projects: Project Manager on the investigation of incorporating Hadoop as a business service.

Tools and skills accumulated during this period include, but not limited to:
- Python, R
- Javascript
- SQL (SQL Server, Postgres SQL, Teradata)
- Tableau
- Multi-skilled project delivery and management

Analytical Consultant

Siemens

I was under the power electronics research group, and is responsible for engineering software applications for embedded electronics as well as PCB design.

My letter of recommendation is as attached.

Research Intern Engineer

University of the Witwatersrand

I was the head tutor for: Electric and Magnetic Systems, Power Engineering, Electromechanical Conversion.

I also tutored: Electric Circuits, Electrical Engineering Skills and Design, Electronics I, Electronics II, Microprocessors, Measurement Systems.

Head Demonstrator and Tutor

OPTI-NUM solutions

Control engineering solutions with MATLAB/Simulink.

Student Engineer

Rheo Systems

Web development and software integration.

Co-Founder & CEO @ Melio AI 🤖 MLOps Evangelist ☕ Building AI Marketplace | Making AI Frictionless 🚀

Merelda is the co-founder and CEO of Melio AI, an MLOps consultancy that helps clients deploy and commercialize their AI projects. She has over 8 years of experience in data science, data engineering, and data analytics, working with various sectors such as banking, insurance, technology, healthcare, and manufacturing. She is an MLOps evangelist who is passionate about making AI frictionless by following the best practices of machine learning lifecycle management, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous monitoring.

She is also the creator of Highwind, an AI marketplace that lets data scientists search, extend, buy, and sell their AI use cases. Highwind adopts a use case-centric approach to ensure that the packaged use cases on the marketplace are solving real business problems. Merelda's mission is to understand how businesses operate, experiment with different methodologies, and create tools to shape the ways humans interact with each other. She holds a BSc and MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand. She is a co-organizer of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's Johannesburg chapter and an avid speaker.

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