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Chido Zinyakatira

@chidozinyakatira

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Aspiring data scientist specializing in big data analytics, NLP, and financial volatility modeling.

South Africa

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What I'm looking for

I seek data science roles leveraging forecasting, NLP, and big-data tooling in collaborative teams focused on impact-driven, data-informed decisions.

I am an aspiring data scientist with strengths in big data analytics, NLP, time-series forecasting, and financial volatility modeling. I combine economics and data science training to build predictive models and scalable data-processing solutions that surface actionable business insights.

My honours research and multiple projects demonstrate rigorous evaluation of forecasting and volatility methods, hands-on experience with Hadoop/Hive/MapReduce, and production-focused analytics—delivering dashboards, recommender systems, and model-driven recommendations to support decision making.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Broker Assistant

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Finhealth Risk Solutions

Apr 2025 - Present (9 months)

Managed and prepared client portfolio datasets for 60+ policies, improved onboarding workflows through structured data updates, and maintained FSCA compliance documentation to ensure accurate records.

Data Wrangling Compliance Portfolio Management SQL PostgreSQL Data Validation Business Intelligence Tableau

Broker Assistant

Safeway Risk Solutions

Jan 2023 - Feb 2023 (1 month)

Verified policy information and supported claims data processing, improving data quality for onboarding and client servicing workflows.

Data Verification Claims Processing CSV SQL Data Handling Compliance Data Cleaning Customer Support Documentation

Data Science Honours Research

University of the Witwatersrand

Conducted GDP forecasting under economic volatility (2000–2023) comparing ARIMA, Holt’s, and VECM models with expanding-window evaluation and robustness testing to produce policy-relevant insights.

Time Series Analysis ARIMA R Python Econometrics

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of the Witwatersrand

Bachelor of Economic Science, Economics; Computational Applied Mathematics

Bachelor of Economic Science with a double major in Economics and Computational Applied Mathematics.

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Bachelor of Science (Honours), Data Science

Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Information Technology with a major in Data Science and an honours research project on GDP forecasting under economic volatility.