Electrical & Computer Engineering
I build systems where the physics and the software both have to hold — from satellite Doppler estimation and Antarctic acoustic positioning to a stablecoin payments platform moving real money across borders.
Professional identity
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. In practice that has meant satellite communications research, fintech infrastructure and commercial IoT deployments that are running in the field today.
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Selected work
Research, a deployed commercial product, a venture, a group engineering build for one of the harshest environments on earth, and heavy power systems work in industry.
Stablecoin cross-border payments
A stablecoin-based remittance platform for the South Africa–Zimbabwe corridor, built on Base L2 with a dual-custody wallet architecture and zero-knowledge privacy.
Honours thesis · VLEO satellite communications
How machine-learning carrier frequency offset estimators for Very Low Earth Orbit satellite links behave under adversarial and non-ideal conditions, benchmarked against classical estimation.
Trecento Power Management
Working on a 40-tonne power transformer core from initial preparation, through core stacking, to abnormal-load delivery to the final customer.
Commercial energy sub-metering
A deployed sub-metering and billing-transparency system for multi-tenant venues, with tamper-evident logging and a tariff analysis that uncovered a ~52% overcharge.
Antarctic underwater positioning
A drone-deployable, GPS-disciplined acoustic positioning constellation for autonomous underwater vehicle navigation beneath Antarctic sea ice.
On-card key generation for contactless payments
A payment terminal built on Raspberry Pi where private keys are generated inside a Java smart card and never leave it. Transactions are signed on-card over NFC, requiring full-stack knowledge of ISO/IEC 14443 and ISO/IEC 7816.