Languages & tooling
- Where
- Coursework, all three internships, and every side project I’ve finished.
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Tamryn Osler
I make fast things faster.
tamrynosler@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/tamryn-oslergithub.com/tamrynoslerCape Town, South Africa
I’m a final-year engineering student who is happiest with a profiler open and a problem that hasn’t been solved yet. My focus is high performance computing — getting real work out of the hardware we already have, rather than spending money on upgrades.
Open to 2026/27 vacation work
Applying for postgraduate study, 2027
Experience
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UCT
Student tutoring
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CHPC
Vice Captain
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Capitec
Software engineering
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Peralex Electronics
Radar & digital signal processing
About
- Focus
- High performance computing
- Degree
- BSc(Eng) Electrical & Computer Engineering
- University
- University of Cape Town
- Graduating
- 2026
- Based in
- Cape Town, South Africa
- Available for
- Vacation work, 2026/27
I like problems that look finished but aren’t.
I’m studying Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Cape Town, and the thing that has stuck with me all the way through is the gap between working and working well. A program that returns the right answer in four minutes and one that returns it in four seconds are not the same program. Closing that gap is the work I want to do.
That pulled me toward high performance computing — parallelism, memory hierarchies, GPU architectures, and the unglamorous business of measuring before changing anything. It also pulled me toward signal processing, where the constraints are physical and the maths has to survive contact with real, noisy data, often in real-time systems.
I work best with other people in the room. Most of what I’ve learned came from arguing about a design with someone who saw it differently, then going away and testing who was right. I’d rather be corrected early than be confidently wrong. I enjoy learning from and with people.
Outside all of this, I paint and draw. It is not a metaphor for engineering and I don’t claim it makes me a better programmer — I just need somewhere to put the part of my attention that doesn’t want to be logical or useful. There’s a page for that.
Optimiser
Systems thinker
Collaborator
Stubborn about detail
Optimist
Asks the second (and third) questions
Skills
What I can actually do
Grouped by what it’s for, and honest about where each one came from. No self-assigned percentages — those never survive a technical interview anyways.
High performance computing
- Where
- Self-directed study and coursework. This is the direction I’m deliberately building toward, not something I claim to have mastered.
Signal processing & radar
- Where
- Signal processing internship at Peralex, signals and systems coursework, final-year project.
Hardware & embedded
- Where
- The micromouse power supply board, the sensor buoy’s radio and antennas, and tutoring Embedded Systems I.
Working with people
- Where
- Internship teams, group design projects, Vice Captain of Team CHPC, and tutoring — a programme I set up with a children’s organisation in Braamfontein, then UCT and private students since.
Education
What I studied, and where
BSc(Eng) Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Cape Town
2023 – 2026 · Final year
Coursework that mattered
Computer architecture
Operating systems
Signals & systems
Digital signal processing
Algorithms & data structures
Control systems
Electromagnetics
Engineering mathematics
Awards
- Dean’s Merit List — first, second and third year
- Class medals — awarded to the top student in the course: MAM1020F (mathematics), PHY1013S and PHY2010S (physics)
- 1st place — CHPC Student Cluster Competition, national round
- 5th place — ISC 2026 Student Cluster Competition, Hamburg
Standing
86% current GPA.
Final-year project
FM passive radar on a single-board computer — detection using broadcast FM transmissions the receiver never emits itself. Currently in the simulation phase and about to move onto hardware; due late October or early November.
Outside the marks
Over 200 hours of community service, and I have been tutoring since school — I set up and ran a programme with a children’s organisation in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, teaching maths, science, English and isiZulu. I now tutor for UCT and privately.
National Senior Certificate (IEB)
Kingsmead College
2018 – 2022
Results
91% average, with 10 distinctions and a placing in the top 1% nationally for Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Life Orientation.
Awards
- Dux Scholar — top of the graduating class
Experience
Where I’ve worked
2025 – present
Student Tutor
CurrentUniversity of Cape Town
Undergraduate tutor for EEE2046F/S, helping students navigate embedded systems concepts and course work.
- Explained practical embedded systems concepts in a way that made the course more accessible to students.
- Supported learning by working through design, debugging and problem-solving approaches with students.
- Strengthened my own understanding by teaching the material and refining how I communicate technical ideas.
Focus Embedded systems Teaching Mentorship
2025 – 2026
Vice Captain
CHPC Student Cluster Competition, ISC 2026
Selected as Vice Captain for Team CHPC for the ISC 2026 Student Cluster Competition, supporting team operations and the AI benchmark task.
- Managed team dynamics, administration, organisation and work allocation across the competition team.
- Led the AI benchmark task, coordinating technical delivery and team priorities.
- Helped keep the team aligned and focused while balancing technical execution with operational planning.
Focus HPC Leadership Team coordination
Jan – Feb 2024
Software Engineering Trainee
Capitec
App-side software development inside a large-scale banking environment.
- Worked app-side, including on the remote app-onboarding process.
- Spent time in Core Architecture, seeing how delivery and architecture actually work at production scale.
Stack Software engineering App development Team delivery
2023 – 2024
Software & Signal Processing Intern
Peralex Electronics
Signal processing software for electromagnetic communications, written into the toolchain the rest of the analysis work runs through.
- Developed part of Peralex’s PXGF processing toolchain, the in-house library their signal work is built on.
- Added the pieces that turn a capture into something readable: filter design, time shifting, spectrogram generation and signal decoding.
Stack PXGF toolchain Digital signal processing Filter design Spectrograms
Projects
What I’ve built and what I learned
HPC
ISC 2026, Team CHPC South Africa
I worked in a team to build a supercomputer cluster of three nodes, running a set of specialised benchmarks. We also optimised the benchmarks specifically for our hardware, from the OS and compilers to the benchmark code itself.
5th at ISC 2026 in Hamburg, Germany
Embedded
3rd year design project
Designing a power supply board for the UCT micromouse, then coding the micromouse to navigate a maze autonomously. This combined hardware design, embedded control and practical system integration.
1 full autonomous maze runner
Communications
4th year design project
Designing a storage and communications module for an Antarctic sensor buoy. I was responsible for the communication link between the buoy and a ship-side receiver, including long-distance LoRa for locating the buoy and a short-distance high-speed WiFi link for data offload.
2 wireless links in one system
Radar
Final-year project — the thesis
An FM passive radar module on a single-board computer. I am in the simulation phase now and about to move onto hardware, so this is the one project on this page I cannot yet show you a result for.
Oct–Nov completion target
Simulation — current phase Hardware
Beyond engineering
The part that isn’t trying to be useful
I draw and paint — mostly graphite and mixed media, with a recurring interest in glass vessels and whatever is trapped inside them. There is a film camera as well. When I’m not doing either I’m usually on a mountain, either walking up it or trying to climb a small piece of it.
Drawing & painting
Film photography
Hiking
Climbing & bouldering
What’s next
Looking for vacation work and a postgraduate place.
If you’re hiring interns, supervising postgraduate research, or just want to argue about memory bandwidth — I’d like to hear from you.
Open to 2026/27 vacation work
Applying for postgraduate study, 2027