Sabelo Mhlambi
Founder at Bhala
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSabelo Mhlambi is a founder and seasoned software practitioner with 11 years of experience building products that sit at the intersection of technology, civic life, and human rights. Based in Washington, DC, he has moved between hands‑on engineering roles and research fellowships at institutions including Harvard, Stanford PACS, and the Berkman Klein Center, bringing rigorous ethics and policy perspective to technical work. He founded Bhala in 2022 and previously served as Technologist in Residence at a Library Innovation Lab, demonstrating a knack for turning research insights into practical tools for public good. Comfortable across web and mapping stacks from Mapbox to open-source privacy projects, he consistently ships compelling side projects in spare moments and documents them at sabelo.mhlambi.com. Colleagues describe him as someone who blends product curiosity with deep civic-mindedness, not just building software but asking why it should exist.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Business Informatics, Business Informatics at University of California, Riverside
English, Spanish, Zulu, ndebele, north, Bantu
Github Skills (139)
opencv10
image-processing10
deep-learning10
keyboard10
input-method10
computer-vision10
kotlin-android10
android-library10
android10
kotlin10
token-based-authentication9
rest9
api9
docker-desktop9
jwt-authentication9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sabzo/sipo
Jan 2016 - Oct 2019
Ruby: Sinatra-MongoDB Skeleton Code with User Authentication
Contributions:9 PRs, 22 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 10 months
sinatraskeletonrailsmongoidsession-cookie
sabzo/imali
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:50 commits, 28 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 months
cryptographyprinciplesblockchaincryptocryptocurrency
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