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Matthew Beattie

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Data Systems Engineer · AI Implementation

South Africa

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What I'm looking for

Data Systems Engineer and AI Implementation specialist. Stellenbosch BEng (Data Engineering) cum laude. Ships production RAG, agentic workflows, FastAPI services, and ETL — including a voice-enabled RAG knowledge system and vision-based product search. Open to remote hard-currency roles and fixed-term international assignments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Data Systems Engineer

Current

Xanita

Jul 2025 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Designed and deployed a production RAG pipeline using n8n orchestration, Supabase (pgvector), and Claude to enable conversational querying of institutional knowledge via a voice-enabled app plus email/document ingestion. Built an image-to-image product catalogue with GPT-4o vision + vector similarity search (Supabase/embeddings) and reworked job operations into a structured n8n workflow platform,

N8n Supabase Claude Code Python fastAPI React GPT 4o ETL Semantic Search

Graduate Engineer

Spatialedge

Jan 2025 - Apr 2025 (3 months)

Completed a 3-month graduate programme collaborating across Data Science, Data Engineering, and ML teams. Developed and productionised a cost anomaly detector to surface and alert on high-signal anomalies.

Machine Learning Data Engineering Monitoring And Alerting

Data Science Intern

DataProphet

Jun 2024 - Jul 2024 (1 month)

Performed feature extraction from raw sensor data and conducted exploratory data analysis. Applied machine learning models to improve manufacturing processes and support data-driven decisions.

Feature Extraction Machine Learning Sensor Data Model Application Manufacturing Analytics

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Stellenbosch University

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Data Engineering (Electrical & Electronic Engineering)

2021 - 2024

Grade: Cum Laude

BEng Electrical & Electronic Engineering (Data Engineering) at Stellenbosch University, graduating cum laude. Earned Dean's Merit List for 14 modules (top 5% of students) and was nominated for the Golden Key Award (top 15% of the Engineering Faculty).

Somerset College (IEB)

Secondary Education, IEB

2016 - 2020

Grade: 8 distinctions; Honours & Honours re-award (academics)

Activities and societies: First XI cricket and hockey.

Completed secondary education at Somerset College (IEB). Achieved 8 distinctions in the IEB final examinations and received Honours and an Honours re-award for academics.