Neo Pillay

ML Engineer at Elmstead Software · ML infrastructure

Elmstead Software

Cape Town, South Africa · SAST (UTC+2)

3+ years experience

Strathmore University

English, Afrikaans, Spanish

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Overview

Based in Cape Town. I work on ML infrastructure at Elmstead Software. Wrote the PyTorch service that now handles 20 million requests a day. Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 35% in two quarters. Previously at Meta. Jazz piano, badly.

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RayPythonPyTorchKubeflow

Experience

ML Engineer
Sep 2025 - Present
Elmstead Software · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
- Taught SQL to 99 non-analysts.
- Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
- Replaced 70 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
ML Engineer
Oct 2023 - Sep 2025
Meta · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
- Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
- Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.

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Recommendation systems benchmark

2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Python and Kubeflow on real workloads.

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Education

Strathmore University
BCom, Computer Science
2018 - 2022

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