Award-winning software developer and entrepreneur, solving the problems of tomorrow. Recipient of the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation Fellowship. Breakthrough Developer of the Year, MTN Business.
I'm leading a team of eight to plan, present and assess the Computer Science 343 course for 176 students. I also assisted with Computer Science 334.
InsiteBot is a website chatbot that's as easy to set up as editing a spreadsheet.
Amazon Web Services partnered with Stellenbosch University to create an educational app that assesses and improves the numerical literacy of primary school students who learn remotely. I led a team of six to successfully undertake this project.
Root is an end-to-end digital insurance platform. I focused on Android development while working at Root.
A free, collaborative, in-browser integrated developer environment. I worked on the Replit education platform.
Aura is a web hosting and development company. I created websites and marketing content for their clients.
I'm reading for an honours degree in computer science, funded by the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation. My research is on understanding transformers through formal languages.
I studied mathematics with a focus in computer science and machine learning, achieving a 93% final-year average. This was funded by the Stellenbosch University Merit Bursary and Allan Gray Orbis Foundation.
I attended SACS High School on the Victoria Scholarship, achieving an 88% final average.
I studied design principles and best practices, focusing on user interface design and branding.
I voluntarily contribute to open-source projects such as nvim-strict, RASP and comment.nvim.
Bestee is an offline, privacy-respecting virtual assistant for Android, which I chose not to monetise.
Camphill Farm Community Hermanus strives to provide high quality of life and meaningful work for adults with intellectual disabilities. I spent four months volunteering full time at Camphill, working on the farm and assisting residents in their workshops and daily lives.
I co-founded and presented for Debugged which offered computer science talks and workshops at Stellenbosch University. A portion of proceeds was donated to Code for Change.
Emile is very talented not only in coding but also in video production and has a knack for marketing as well. This makes him one of a kind technical talent.
Emile has excelled at SACS and has risen above his peers especially in the academic aspect of school life. He has consistently delivered top marks thanks to excellent academic discipline.
If you are looking for someone who is prepared, competent, industrious, creative, entrepreneurial, connective and - above all, a really decent human being - you will have found that in Emile.
I want to congratulate [Emile's team] for winning the Fintech Coding Challenge. This is certainly a fantastic achievement for a group of first year students!
In over 15 years of running a design and hosting company I have never seen such potential and enthusiasm for our industry.
[...] Elon Musk of the future.
Punctuality, efficiency, responsibility, conduct, willingness - all excellent.
Your [Computer Science] 345 project was definitely one of the best student projects I've seen over the years.
[Emile] is a team player and always willing to bring more than is expected of him.