Wickus Martin

Wickus Martin is the SVP, Technology & Engineering at Dstillery. Wickus has held this position for 8 years 9 months, and prior to that they were the Acting Head of Engineering and the Director of Machine Learning Engineering. Wickus has also been a Lead Machine Learning Engineer and a Machine Learning Engineer.

Wickus has also been Vice President - Application Developer Lead at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Assistant Vice President - Senior Software Developer at Deutsche Bank. At JPMorgan Chase & Co., they were a member of the core Quant Library Services (QLS) team that owned the grid computing system for calculating risk on over-the-counter equity derivative positions. At Deutsche Bank, they were a member of the original team commissioned to design, build and launch the Autobahn Futures and Options trading platform.

Wickus has received a peer nominated award for “quality work, process improvement, teamwork, service, and a high level of dedication.”

Wickus Martin has a M.Sc in Information Technology from the University of Cape Town, a Dipl. Datametrics in Computer Science from the University of South Africa/Universiteit van Suid-Afrika, and a M.Tech and B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology.

Wickus Martin is the Senior Vice President of Technology & Engineering at the company. Wickus has over two decades of experience in the technology industry, including stints at Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Wickus has a strong background in software engineering and has played a pivotal role in the development of several major products at the company. Wickus is a respected leader within the engineering team and is known for their dedication to their work.