July 2026 - Current
Current
MSc Financial Engineering: coursework in progress
WorldQuant University
- Financial Markets (MScFE 560): 89% · 4 credits earned
03 / My story
An actuarial foundation. A builder’s curiosity.
I started with mathematics and uncertainty. Building software gave me another way to explore both. Today, I bring those ways of thinking together.
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- Founder & Technical Lead, Sequrin Technologies
- Studying
- BSc Honours, Risk Analysis (UFS) · MSc Financial Engineering (WQU)
- Background
- BSc Actuarial Science, University of the Free State
- Based in
- Krugersdorp, South Africa
About
The thread behind the work
My background is in actuarial science, and I am currently completing my BSc Honours in Risk Analysis at the University of the Free State. I am interested in what mathematics can tell us about uncertainty, and how to turn that into useful tools.
I tend to understand difficult problems by working through them directly. Sometimes that means modelling them. Sometimes it means building the software, workflow or interface around the model so I can see how the whole system behaves.
I have also learned that figuring something out well is not the same as figuring it out alone. Good work improves when assumptions are challenged and someone else can see the question I did not think to ask.
University of the Free State · 2026
A foundation in actuarial science.
A curiosity that keeps growing.
BSc Actuarial Science, conferred in 2026. Now pursuing Honours in Risk Analysis.
01
Sit with complexity
Stay with the mathematics, assumptions and uncertainty long enough to understand the problem, not only produce an answer.
02
Build to understand
When implementation changes how a problem is understood, build the model, tool or workflow instead of stopping at the analysis.
03
Figure it out well
Independent problem-solving matters, but so does knowing when another perspective can expose a weak assumption or improve the outcome.
A conversation that changed the work
It started with a question
closer to home.
Where Sequrin began
An interview prompt challenged me to show how I think beyond academic projects. A conversation with my mother about medical-aid costs gave me a real-world question to follow. That became Sequrin, and an opportunity to bring my analytical and software skills together.
What building it is teaching me
The hardest part has not only been technical. I am naturally reserved, and I was used to bringing people a finished product before asking for their input. Building Sequrin is teaching me to reach out earlier, share work while it is still unfinished, and let other people help shape the questions. I am learning to make my work heard without having to become someone else.
I’m learning to bring the unfinished work
into the conversation.
Professional background
Experience
Current
Founder & Technical Lead
Sequrin Technologies
Building healthcare claims integrity and investigation technology for South African medical schemes, bringing together claims analytics, explainable risk signals and investigator workflows. Leading the software and cloud infrastructure development, with testing in synthetic claims environments.
- Healthcare FWA systems
- Claims analytics
- Software architecture
- Applied machine learning
- Data and model governance
2026
Actuarial Pricing Analyst (Vacation Work)
Actuaries In The Making (AIM)
Built and calibrated a funeral-insurance rider pricing model, combining mortality assumptions, expense structures and profit margins with profit testing, sensitivity analysis and scenario analysis.
- Pricing model spanning 7,280 rating combinations
- 61-year monthly profit-test projection
- Sensitivity and scenario analysis used to test model assumptions
- Presented findings and recommendations to actuarial programme stakeholders
2023
Student Assistant
University of the Free State
Facilitated computer-literacy practical sessions for undergraduate students and provided hands-on support for software and system queries.
- Facilitated practical sessions for more than 50 students
- Supported Excel, Word and PowerPoint tasks during lab sessions
Academic background
Education
2026 - Current
Current
BSc (Hons) Risk Analysis
University of the Free State
- Nedbank bursary recipient
- Research: Investor risk preferences from JSE sector returns
2022 - 2025
BSc Actuarial Science
University of the Free State
- Degree conferred in 2026
- ASSA exemptions: A111, A112, A113
- Nedbank bursary recipient
- Golden Key invitation recipient
Continued learning
Certifications
- IBM AI EngineeringIBM2026
- Actuarial Job SimulationStandard Bank · Forage2023
- IBM Data ScienceIBM2022
- Google Data AnalyticsGoogle2022
- Google IT SupportGoogle2022
Methods & tools
Methods and tools
Techniques and technologies that recur across the work above.
Actuarial & Statistics
- Frequency-severity modelling
- GLMs
- Loss modelling
- Monte Carlo simulation
- Copulas
- Extreme Value Theory
- Time-series analysis
- Discrete choice modelling
- Spatial statistics
Quantitative Finance
- Portfolio optimisation
- Financial econometrics
- GARCH-family volatility models
- Copula dependence modelling
- Pairs trading research
- Walk-forward backtesting
- JSE market analysis
Machine Learning & Data
- Python
- scikit-learn
- Feature engineering
- Class-imbalanced modelling
- Calibration
- Model evaluation
- Data pipelines
Software & Systems
- JavaScript
- React
- Python
- SQL
- REST APIs
- Testing
- Git
Cloud & AI Platforms
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Cloud deployment
- Amazon Bedrock
- Foundation models
Analytical Tooling
- R
- Shiny
- Excel
- VBA
- LaTeX
- ArcGIS Pro
Early writing · 2021
Short Intro To Forex Trading
A short introductory book I wrote about the foreign-exchange market, an early expression of my interest in finance and explaining what I learn.
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