Monaheng Ramokhoro

Experience

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  VISION

  Aug 2016 - Jan 2017

  Tutor

  Tutoring High School Science and Mathematics.At VISION we delivered innovative, feedback based tutoring services, with our reach ranging from underpriviledged schools in the more secluded regions of Maseru and Lesotho at large, to providing personalised tutoring services to learners from top institutes in the country.We developed innovative curriculums utilising technology and software to mitigate the lack of resources prevailing in some of the schools. We developed a continuous feedback system to our tutoring program which allowed suitable levels of personalisation even when the assigned tutor changes.I also had the chance to tutor Basic Java to people who were taking courses at higher learning institutions. Show less

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  Scilinx Research

  Mar 2018 - Nov 2018

  Research Collaborator | Developer

  Building prototype software solutions to business problems. Software solutions built based on cutting edge research in machine learning and operational risk.In 2018 we built a Natural Language Processing software using Apache Spark scala, coupled with a dashboard that highlighted both topic evolution over time and used graph structures to summarise the connections between data sets in order to convey the underlying semantic structure of the data in question.My responsibilities were testing and building a preliminary topic modelling pipeline in spark scala, building preliminary dashboard in python's then still new dash framework, and finally building the GUI interface of the prototype application in scala and scalafx. Show less

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  Tshimologong Precinct

  Oct 2018 - Nov 2018

  Intern

  A five week internship working in the community department of the Tshimologong Precinct Incubation Hub. My main duty (along with my fellow interns) was that of identifying ways to make the environment and incubation program more beneficial for every tech/digital start up that walks in.

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  Scilinx Research

  Feb 2019 - Nov 2019

  Research Collaborator | Developer

  My work comprised of building the main data pipelines for the different projects happening in the research lab.During this time I got exposed to technologies such as: - the elastic stack both for user activity tracking and for application monitoring. - apache kafka for building robust and scalable stream data processing pipelines. - mongodbMy major focus was on designing and implementing a decoupled python based microservices architecture using Apache Kafka as the backbone of the infrastructure which interfaced with Django applications and different databases. Show less

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  University of the Witwatersrand

  Feb 2019 - Nov 2019

  Applied Mathematics Tutor

  Tutoring first year Computational and Applied Mathematics (both the theory aspects and the programming using the MATLAB programming language).

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  Opti-Num Solutions

  Jul 2019 - Jan 2020

  Vacation Work Student

  This was an 8 week opportunity divided into a two week session(first leg) and a six week session(second leg).The first leg of this vacation work opportunity involved training in programming in MATLAB as well as Machine Learning training using MATLAB. At the end of it my partner and I were tasked with adding some functionality to an equity data web application using matlab.During the second leg, my project was to apply data science techniques in the field of alternative data for finance, using the FactSet API as a data source. In this task:1. I used different clustering methods along with anomaly detection to generate insights about companies' standings by looking at their fundamentals as time series. 2. Using FactSet's Hierarchical Classification dataset, I developed an analysis and visualisation for enhancing transparency into the contents of a portfolio and what drives its revenue as a means of assessing risk exposures.On top of this I was party to a project where my partner was developing an online banking fraud detection model using machine learning and MATLAB. Show less

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  Solidaridad Network

  Feb 2020 - now

  I worked on maintaining our servers, adding new APIs and API integrations to the system. As part of my responsibilities I headed the development of our WhatsApp based chatbot called WADI. The chatbot was prototyped in Python FastAPI, but the final product was built in Python and Django. I also created and maintained reports for our on-the-ground operations using Power BI connected to a PostgresQL database. On a daily basis I worked with python to integrate external APIs, Django to create and maintain our own APIs, PostgreSQL (with the PostGIS extensions for GIS), Power BI and I also created a static website for Kvuno (a start-up working with Solidaridad to help small scale farmers). Show less

  • Junior Technical Manager: Digital Solutions

    Jul 2023 - now

  • Software Engineer | Junior Lead Data Analyst

    May 2021 - Jun 2023

  • Software Engineer Intern

    Feb 2020 - May 2021