Operations & Automation · South Africa

I build systems that turn manual work into automated ones.

Caron Sathekge (28) — Junior Operations Manager & Technical Lead. I design fraud detection systems, AI agents, and data tools that solve real operational problems, from the ground up.

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01 · About

I sit at the intersection of operations, data, and engineering, building tools that replace manual processes with reliable, automated ones.

I'm currently Junior Operations Manager and technical lead at SavvySaver, a South African rewards and cashback app, where I lead product testing, incident investigation, and reporting, and build the automation and AI tools the business runs on.

Before that, I worked as a Systems Reporting and Support Analyst at CSG, where I redesigned the timecard reporting process and cut missing or unapproved hours from roughly 13,000 to 2,000 in two months. I started my data career as a Data Science intern at ExploreAI Academy, leading ML project teams from data cleaning through to model deployment on AWS.

I hold a BSc in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Limpopo, and I'm AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Certified Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300), and Microsoft Certified Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900).

02 · Featured Work

Recent builds

01

Fraud Review Platform

SavvySaver · Private internal tool

Designed and built a fraud review platform from scratch to help the SavvySaver team investigate suspicious reward claims at scale. Ingests real slip and redemption data, scores every member against 13 weighted fraud indicators, and gives reviewers a queue with full audit history.

  • 0 members scored
  • 0 transaction slips processed
  • 0 recall against real agent decisions
Next.js TypeScript Supabase / Postgres SQL
02

AI Social Media Agent

SavvySaver · n8n + LLM automation

Built an end-to-end automation pipeline that writes, schedules, and publishes social content, tracks post performance, and replies to comments and DMs on its own. Includes a self-improvement loop that feeds past performance back into content generation.

  • 2.9 → 4.5+ Play Store rating in 2 weeks
  • 0 connected automated workflows
  • Auto content, scheduling & engagement tracking
n8n LLM Agents Graph API Automation
03

AI Job Search Assistant

Personal · Human-in-the-loop workflow

A job search workflow that finds relevant postings, tailors a CV and cover letter to each one, and tracks every application, while keeping a human in the loop for every submission and message. When a recruiter is contacted directly, it also sends a personalized LinkedIn connection request to follow up. Nothing is auto-sent without review.

  • 0 tailored CV variants
  • Personalized LinkedIn recruiter outreach
  • Draft-only, review-before-send by design
Claude Browser Automation Workflow Design
04

Algorithmic Trading EA

Personal · MQL5 Expert Advisor

An automated Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 5 that encodes a pullback trading strategy I've built and refined over several years. It executes entries automatically, sets stop-loss and take-profit on every trade, and filters out setups that don't meet the strategy's criteria, so trades are placed on rules, not emotion.

  • Automated stop-loss & take-profit
  • Rule-based entry & trade filtering
  • Runs unattended on MetaTrader 5
MQL5 MetaTrader 5 Algorithmic Trading Risk Management

03 · Open Source & ML Projects

From my GitHub

Earlier data science and machine learning work, pulled straight from github.com/MrSathekge.

Credit Card Fraud Detection

ML models classifying fraudulent vs. legitimate card transactions on real cardholder data.

Credit Risk Modeling

Modeling the probability of borrower default on loan and contractual obligations.

Unsupervised Learning: Movie Recommender

Team ML project building a movie recommender with SVD, NMF and clustering, deployed on AWS.

Portfolio Optimization

Quantitative notebook exploring portfolio allocation and optimization techniques.
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04 · Skills

Tools & expertise

Automation & AI

n8n Claude / LLM Agents Browser Automation Workflow Design MessageBird ActiveCampaign

Data & Analytics

SQL Power BI Python Machine Learning Exploratory Data Analysis

Engineering

Next.js TypeScript Supabase / Postgres AWS Git & GitHub

Operations

Team Leading Incident Investigation Project Management Process Automation Jira Asana Trello Oracle EBS
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Microsoft Certified Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)
Microsoft Certified Power Platform Fundamentals (PL-900)
BSc Applied Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Limpopo

05 · Resume

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06 · Contact

Let's work together.

Open to roles in automation engineering, data & BI analysis, technical operations, or AI-adjacent product and support roles.

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