Eslam Hussein arrived in South Africa from his native Egypt in 2013, in February 2014 he enrolled to study Computer Science at the University of the Western Cape. He has since completed his BSc, Hons and finally graduated Magna Cum Laude with an MSc in Computer Science in April 2022.

Today, Eslam works as a Data Scientist at the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy at UWC, where he develops and uses data science projects to teach aspiring data scientists across the continent at hackathons and other events.