Summary
Mpho Mphego is an AI Software Engineer and former Electronic Engineer with 11 years of experience building Python-first backend, DevOps, and data solutions across cloud and research environments. He has a track record of turning manual processes into automated, cost-efficient pipelines—optimizing a massive MSSQL extraction from 5 hours to 44 minutes and migrating terabytes of workloads to AWS while implementing CI/CD and disaster recovery. Comfortable in both academic-grade systems (MeerKAT telescope, SANSA) and production data platforms, he combines systems-level troubleshooting with modern tooling like Airflow, Kubernetes, Ansible, and Collibra. As an Udacity Elite Mentor and active blogger, he invests in knowledge sharing and continuous learning through MOOCs and community engagement. Notably, his hands-on experience includes PII protection automation and real-time observability implementations that bridge operational reliability with data governance.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Tshwane University of Technology
English