Hey! I'm Iwan, an intern at Momentum and a post-graduate CS student at the University of Pretoria where my research proposes a spiking version of LoRA to fine-tune LLMs.

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Dev Intern

2025 - Present, Momentum

BScHons Computer Science (specializing in Artificial Intelligence)

2025, University of Pretoria


My research proposes SpikeLoRA, an efficient fine-tuning method that combines the use of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) and Low-rank Adaptation (LoRA).

Freelance Software Engineer

2023 - 2025


Creating impactful digital solutions for individuals and companies worldwide.

BSc Computer Science (major in Statistics)

2021 - 2024, University of Pretoria


For our final-year project, we built TerraByte, a crop yield prediction model that uses weather data to predict crop yield. My responsibilities included the development and deployment of the complete ML lifecycle.

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