About me

My name is Natu Lauchande I am currently a Techie focused on Data, Analytics, ML and Distributed systems. At heart, I enjoy coding with cool/motivated people rallying around a challenging effort that makes the world a better place. “It always seems impossible until it is done” & “You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one” are catchphrases that I aspire to live by in the endeavors that I take part in.

In the last ten years I have lived in five cities and two continents and worked ranged from top public cloud in the world, and startups in the Data space.

Along the way had the opportunity to be granted a patent(co-inventor) in distributed systems while working at Amazon - Patent LINK , publish in a top academic journal and contribute to open-source software. I have recently also been very active as a speaker in ML/Tech conferences and meetups. I have recently written a book in the area of Machine Learning Engineering for an international bookseller.

Links: Google Scholar - Github - Linkedin - Twitter

Talks

2022-10-14 |Pyconza 2022 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of writing a technical book | https://za.pycon.org/talks/lightning-talks/ 2021-09-28 |Cape Town Machine Learning - Meetup - Machine Learning Engineering w/ Mlflow Video 2021-07-26| Deep Learning Indaba𝕏 Mozambique| Video 2020-04-02 |Devconf South Africa - Machine Learning Principles w/ Mlflow| Slides 2020-03-24| Deep Learning Indaba𝕏 South Africa| Video 2019-10-27|AWS Dev days Cape Town - Devconf South Africa - Machine Learning Principles w/ Mlflow 2019-10-09|PyconZA 2019| Video

Book

2021-Machine Learning Engineering with MLFlow

Articles/Blogs/Publication

• “A computer vision non-intrusive mechanism to collect images and give real-time insights about animal behaviors on coral reefs in Mozambican Waters” - Deeep Learning Indaba 2022 - [Best Poster Award] - Luis Pina et. Al

• How to Become a Data Engineer: The AI Plumber?

• Review notes of ML PLatforms — Uber Michelangelo

• Building a Machine Learning Text Classifier Backend for a PTSD Assessment Chatbot

• Neural Transfer Learning in NLP for Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder Assessment

• Rust : coding up a simple concatenate files tool and first impressions

Podcasts/Interviews/Profiles

• [Profile in a Digital News Outlet ] : https://kabum.digital/conheca-o-percurso-de-natu-lauchande-na-amazon/

• Kutiva - Developers Abroad - PT

• Moz Diaspora - PT

If you like my website, you can follow me on twitter @nlauchande.