Thabang Mashinini-Sekgoto · Soshanguve
From Soshanguve. I build AI that works, then I show people how.
Hi, I'm Thabang, from Soshanguve, South Africa.
For over nine years, I've spent my time learning how things work: physics, mathematics, AI, software, hardware engineering, data, and people, and then asking what those ideas mean where I come from.
Today, I'm a Lead Data Scientist at a bank, but the question I keep coming back to is bigger than my job: how do we take what we learn in universities, research labs and large organisations and make it useful to ordinary people?
- R1Ba year saved at Vodacom
- 100M+events a day through Ubunye Engine, powering 10+ products across a bank
- MScComputer Science, with distinction, WitsPhD loading
- 17talks, and 300K+ people reached
Latest writing
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What the Road Makes Possible
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Stage 5: Trust Your People, Then Let Go
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Stage 4: When People Push Back, Show Them
Say hello by email. The longer story is on the about page, the work is under work, and the career detail is on my CV.