Sameer Shaboodien

Master of Electronic Engineering

About Me

Hi! I am a Master of Engineering (Electronic), cum laude, with a strong academic foundation and practical experience across industry work and entrepreneurial ventures.

Hardware & PCB DesignFull-stack Web ApplicationsCloud Systems (AWS)Electric Vehicle SystemsCreative DesignInvestment ManagementTelematics SystemsMachine LearningComputer VisionEntrepreneurship

Academic Journey

High-School

Bishops Diocesan College

90% aggregate with eight distinctions, 98% in Economics (provincial top-10), 91% in Alpha Mathematics (Bishop's top student.

BEng Electrical & Electronic

Stellenbosch University

70% all-year GPA (22nd/88), Golden Key South Africa member (top 15% of the faculty), 72% fourth-year GPA with an informatics focus (machine learning and concurrency), and an 80% final-year thesis grade on image-based UAV navigation.

MEng Electronic Engineering

Stellenbosch University

Completed an MEng thesis in an accelerated one-year timeframe with a mark of 80% on a universal, high-power EV telematics (data capture, transmission, and access) system.

Leadership in Practice

Vice-Chair Outreach

Bishops Diocesan College

Coordinated 100+ society members across weekly outreach, managing both partner and volunteer logistics.

Class Representative

Stellenbosch University

Represented communication between students and staff in faculty, ensuring student needs and faculty constraints are heard.

Teaching Assistant

Stellenbosch University

Delivered tutorial sessions, including tutoring and test invigilation for multiple engineering modules.

Best Student Award

Saint Petersburg State University

Led two teams to dual first-place finishes and earned overall Best Student recognition during a two-week international engineering programme in Europe.

Recognition & Impact

Gold President's Award

National youth award recognizing sustained community service (in my case, over 200 hours) as well as skill development, and physical recreation.

Half Debating Colors

Honours for competitive debating performance and contributions to the society.

Scholarship Awards

Dell Young Leaders, Mark Shuttleworth Foundation, Crossley Fund, Nedbank Mike Brown Scholarship, and various merit awards.

Allan Gray Entrepreneurship Challenge

Placed 11th nationally out of 1,000+ participants, demonstrating entrepreneurial talent.

Projects

Masters Thesis

EV Telematics System

Built a compact, rugged electric-vehicle telematics platform that safely captures megawatt-scale power and high-precision mobility data through non-invasive installation, adds LTE plus local storage, and streams into an end-to-end AWS pipeline feeding a secure full-stack React/Next.js app

Paper

Entrepreneurship

Various Ventures

Scaled Premier Tutors into a five-figure business by building a premium, efficient tutoring company staffed with top-tier instructors who intuitively explain concepts without abstraction and provide detailed lesson notes for exam-time recall, thereby addressing the gaps in AI-driven and low-cost tutoring services who often lack understanding in technical modules. Additionally experimented with design-service and high-value perfume import ventures.

Final-year Thesis

Image-Based Navigation

Engineered a generalisable camera-driven navigation system that lets UAVs return post GNSS jamming or spoofing by matching journey images or stored maps, synthesising a computer vision pipeline that reached sub-1% position inference error

Paper Poster

E-Design I

Emergency System

Built STM32 firmware with companion hardware for a battery-backed emergency lighting system, wiring up I2C, UART, SPI, and DMA runtimes with button, slider, and touchpad controls across safety modes

Paper

E-Design II

Health Monitor

Engineered a discrete-component health monitor that senses temperature, heartbeat, weight, and steps with OLED plus Wi-Fi outputs, earning an 86% mark for its low-noise analog conditioning

Paper

Electronics Module

Audio Amplifier

Designed a 24W high-fidelity audio amplifier from discrete components, adding bass/treble controls and tuning for excellent sound quality with negligible distortion

Get in Touch

Phone

+27 78 610 9425

samshabz13@gmail.com

Sameer Shaboodien