Senior AI/ML Consultant
neural · agentic · productionI build autonomous AI agents and production neural systems for the enterprise — bridging legacy infrastructure to LLMs, RAG, and ASR pipelines that ship real business outcomes.
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Rhyno Strydom is a Senior AI/ML Consultant based in South Africa. He specialises in autonomous AI agents, large language model and generative AI platforms, and production speech-recognition and NLP pipelines for enterprise clients on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. He has shipped autonomous coding agents over the Model Context Protocol at Sainsbury's, architected the AWS Innovation Award-winning GenAI research engine for Tachmed, and led Whisper and Wav2Vec ASR compliance systems for major financial institutions. He holds an MEng in Computing and Electronic Engineering with published NLP and ML research.
Senior AI/ML Consultant (MEng, published NLP & ML research) specialising in autonomous agents, LLM-backed platforms, and production neural systems. I bridge enterprise legacy infrastructure to modern AI — from agentic engineering platforms and GenAI research engines to Whisper / Wav2Vec ASR pipelines that have replaced multi-million-pound compliance gaps. Backed by 7+ years of commercial Python, distributed systems and multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) experience, with a customer-facing engineering mindset focused on shipping outcomes, not slideware.
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A few engagements where the numbers tell the story.
Sainsbury’s
Engineered an internal suite of autonomous AI coding agents and deterministic templates over MCP. The agents reason about repository conventions and scaffold new Java services end-to-end, collapsing spin-up from three days to ten minutes across the engineering organisation.
Tachmed
Architected a GenAI research engine on AWS using FastAPI, Next.js, Postgres and Terraform. Cut research time in half and won a worldwide AWS Innovation Award at re:Invent.
Synthesis
Tech lead on a Whisper / Wav2Vec / AWS Transcribe ASR and NLP pipeline that monitored call-centre compliance for major financial institutions. Replaced manual sampling and avoided regulatory fines historically reaching three million dollars every six months.
Invictus Alpha
Built finite-state-machine Python trading bots managing $3.4M across nine cryptocurrency exchanges including FTX, Binance and OKEx.
architecture
Selected tooling I reach for to ship production AI and data systems. Agents and neural systems first; backend and cloud foundations underneath.
agents · llms · speech · infrastructure
backend · systems · data & cloud
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Senior AI consulting for enterprise clients including Sainsbury’s and Tachmed: autonomous coding agents over MCP, GenAI research platforms, and AWS-native architectures.
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Tech lead on call-centre compliance ASR & NLP pipelines (Whisper, Wav2Vec, AWS Transcribe) for major financial institutions. Owned model selection, deployment and SageMaker-based serving.
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Built finite-state-machine Python trading bots managing $3.4M across nine cryptocurrency exchanges including FTX, Binance and OKEx.
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Embedded and IoT software development; first commercial Python and Linux systems work.
Independent work
Technical Lead
Led two engineers to architect an offline-capable data collection platform with automated farm map generation from GPS point clouds.
Co-Creator
Edge-computing security system on Nvidia Jetson Nano for real-time person detection with Telegram alerts.
North-West University
Focus: NLP & ML.
Published ·Recognising Classified Speech (2020)University of Pretoria
Focus: Signal Processing.
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Microsoft Azure Data Scientist Associate
Snowflake Data Warehousing
Udacity Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree
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If you're scoping an AI/ML engagement, or you'd like a second pair of eyes on an architecture, drop a note below or reach out on LinkedIn — I'll get back to you.