Alexander Chiu

After completing an undergraduate degree in electronic engineering from Stellenbosch University, I pursued a master's degree focused on computer vision and autonomous navigation applications. I spent five years in the telecommunications and intelligence industry working on big data solutions for national governments and the law enforcement community, and two years abroad at bol.com, the largest e-commerce platform in the Netherlands, solving problems in the search and recommendations domain.

As of January 2024 I am applying my skills in software, data and machine learning engineering at primer.io rebuilding payments and commerce from the ground up.

Senior Data Engineer

January 2024 - Present · primer.io

Senior Engineer

December 2021 - December 2023 · bol.com

Individual contributor of Help Me Find - a product-led group of scrums teams that make sure customers are able to find the relevant products (and ultimately buy) on the bol.com platform. I worked on projects that help guide customers such as search suggestions and recommendations, as well as the internal search engine where techniques like neural search and learning-to-rank are combined with traditional information retrieval techniques to improve the relevancy of search.

I was also a member of a company-wide machine learning engineer workgroup where I contributed to best practices to streamline the process of taking machine learning models to production within the bol.com landscape.

Junior/Medior/Senior Engineer

January 2017 - November 2021 · VASTech

Part of a data integration platform team developing distributed and scalable big data solutions for national governments and the international law enforcement community.

Internship

December 2015 · S-PLANE Automation

Developed a visualisation tool to calculate and display unmanned aerial vehicles' line of sight using geospatial data.

Internship

December 2014 - January 2015 · VASTech

Investigated several speech enhancement techniques and implemented an MMSE-STSA speech denoising library in Java.

M.Eng. Electronic Engineering (Cum laude)

2015 - 2016 · Stellenbosch University

Thesis: Probabilistic Outlier Removal for Stereo Visual Odometry

B.Eng. Electrical and Electronic Engineering (Cum laude)

2011 - 2014 · Stellenbosch University

2016. Chiu, A., Jones, T. and van Daalen, C.E. A comparison of linearisation and the unscented transform for computer vision applications. 2016 Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics International Conference (PRASA-RobMech).

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