Mfundo Ntini is a Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect with 10 years of engineering experience bridging electrical and biomedical foundations into scalable AI and microservice solutions. He has led teams to deliver chat-based interfaces at 3M+ users with 99.9% SLA, optimized critical query paths (92% latency reduction) and repurposed model context protocols for safe multivendor LLM integration. Comfortable operating across Kubernetes, BigQuery and legacy system wrappers, he builds production-ready natural language interfaces and semantic caching architectures to improve LLM roundtrip efficiency. His work includes low-resource language NLP—adding isiZulu and isiXhosa support to Duckling—and ongoing research into Nguni language embeddings and idiomatic understanding. Based in Johannesburg, he combines deep systems performance tuning with practical AI safety engineering and a knack for turning research prototypes into resilient production services.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Certificate Management of Technology and Innovation, Higher Certificate Management of Technology and Innovation at The DaVinci Institute
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering at University of the Witwatersrand
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