Palesa Adams

Overview

I lead ML infrastructure at Carrow Technologies in Cape Town. Shipped 28 launches on the ML platform team without a rollback. Before that: MTN and Deloitte. Most at home with feature stores and Python. Outside work: long runs and longer podcasts.

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Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   May 2023 - Present
   Carrow Technologies · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
   • Grew the ML platform team from 4 to 16 engineers.
   • Brought on-call pages for ML platform down from 20 a week to 1.
2. Principal Engineer

   Dec 2021 - May 2023
   MTN · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
   • Led or co-led 22 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
3. Engineering Manager

   Sep 2019 - Dec 2021
   Deloitte · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
   • Mentored 4 engineers through their first promotion.
4. ML Engineer

   Oct 2016 - Sep 2019
   Meta · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
   • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
   • Taught SQL to 130 non-analysts.
5. ML Engineer

   Mar 2015 - Jun 2016
   Flutterwave · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Cape Town, South Africa
   • Moved the homepage from rules to a learned ranker.
   • Taught SQL to 43 non-analysts.

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Education

1. University of Nigeria, Nsukka

   BEng, Information Technology
   2001 - 2005