Joshua Van Staden
Content Developer at CoGrammar
Makhanda, South Africa
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Top SchoolJoshua Van Staden is a PhD student specializing in Machine Learning and Computer Vision at Rhodes University, with a research focus on automating gait-based detection of concealed carriers in CCTV footage. He brings eight years of experience across data science, QA, and code review, bridging research with production-ready tooling. In parallel, he is a Content Developer at HyperionDev and a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Rhodes University, where he designs technical content and mentors next-generation developers. He actively contributes as a Code Reviewer at CoGrammar, and has prior internship exposure with the Square Kilometre Array, adding a practical, hands-on dimension to his ML work. Based in Makhanda, South Africa, his career blends academic rigor with practical, auditable solutions and a growing interest in time-series data and computer vision.
8 years of coding experience
Rhodes University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
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radio-astronomy8
python8
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meteorology8
openpose8
signal-processing8
astronomy7
human-pose-estimation7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JoshVStaden/pistol_detection_with_yolo
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:60 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
JoshVStaden/codex-africanus
Apr 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch, 8 comments in 6 months
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