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Chido Zinyakatira

Economic Intelligence · Forecasting · Risk Analyst
📍 Johannesburg, South Africa · (0) · Member since April 2026
Availability
🏠 Works remotely / from home Yes No
🧰 Travels to client Yes No

Presentation

I build end-to-end systems that turn raw data into decisions —
from pipeline architecture to deployed dashboards to causal
evidence that holds up in regulated environments.

CORE CAPABILITIES

Causal Inference & Risk Analytics
• Difference-in-differences, event studies, synthetic controls
• Bayesian posterior estimation for policy impact measurement
• Financial volatility modelling: GARCH, VaR, spectral analysis

Production Forecasting & ML
• Hybrid econometric-ML ensembles (ARIMA + GARCH + XGBoost/CatBoost)
• Automated retraining pipelines via Airflow, containerised with Docker
• Hyperparameter optimisation (Optuna), pseudo-labelling, ensemble methods

NLP & Document Intelligence
• Policy document parsing, structured extraction, compliance automation
• Topic modelling (LDA), sentiment analysis, TF-IDF/cosine similarity
• Text classification, recommender systems, BeautifulSoup scraping

SELECTED WORK
→ African Economic Intelligence Pipeline | BigQuery · dbt · Airflow
48 countries, 8 indicators, 24 years. World Bank API → BigQuery →
dbt Cloud → Airflow → Power BI. Dockerised, live.
Stack: Python · SQL · R · BigQuery · dbt · Airflow · Docker ·
Git/GitHub · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Tableau · Power BI ·
Streamlit Cloud · Looker Studio · Hadoop · Hive

Availability: Fully remote · Immediate start
Rate: $60–90/hour | Project retainers preferred
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Offered services

3 services
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Background

Adminstrative Assistant
Finhealth Risk Solutions · 01/04/2025 – 01/04/2026
• Dashboards & Reporting: Designed and maintained KPI dashboards in Tableau and Excel tracking risk indicators, compliance metrics, and portfolio performance — used daily by leadership
• Compliance: Operated within FAIS and FSCA regulatory frameworks — AML/KYC monitoring, suspicious activity flagging, full audit trail documentation
• Customer Segmentation: Conducted segmentation using K-Means clustering and logistic regression — identified distinct risk profiles informing portfolio management strategy
Bachelor of Information Technology- Data Science
Eduvos · 2025 – 2026
Bachelor of Economic Science
University of Witwatersrand · 2022 – 2025
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Working hours

Monday
From08h00To18h00
Tuesday
From08h00To18h00
Wednesday
From08h00To18h00
Thursday ▪ Today
From08h00To18h00
Friday
From08h00To18h00
Saturday
Closed
Sunday
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