Shane Acton

Ai/ml Engineer

Shane Acton is an AI/ML Engineer at Letly since August 2025, focusing on creating AI workflows for real estate problems. Prior to this role, Shane worked as a Research Engineer at InstaDeep Ltd from April 2022 to September 2025, developing frameworks and conducting experiments in Natural Language Processing for biological applications. Shane's experience includes a Research Assistant position at the University of Cape Town, where work involved creating an NLP-based autolabeller, and a Technical Consultant role at Tanzanite Management Services PTY (LTD), implementing machine learning techniques on public data. In academic roles, Shane served as a Teaching Assistant for an Honors Machine Learning course and completed internships at Amazon Web Services and Oracle, focusing on data pipelines and anomaly detection, respectively. Shane holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Cape Town.

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