Available — 2026
SibusisoKhumalo.
Electrical engineer,full-stack & AI developerwith a background in medicine —chasing AI engineering next.
Looking for a Data Science / AI Engineering role in Johannesburg — available now
Currently — Electrical Engineer_
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01the journey
Twocareers,onewire.
I trained to heal people, then taught myself to build systems — now I'm chasing a future in AI engineering and data science, one shipped project at a time.
01Clinical07
Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice◆Clinical Associate — Kopanong Hospital◆Assisted in Cesarean Sections◆COVID-19 Vaccinator — Northern Cape◆VMMC Provider — CHAPS◆Patient Examination & Counselling◆First Aid Level 1 Certified◆Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice◆Clinical Associate — Kopanong Hospital◆Assisted in Cesarean Sections◆COVID-19 Vaccinator — Northern Cape◆VMMC Provider — CHAPS◆Patient Examination & Counselling◆First Aid Level 1 Certified◆
02Engineering & Dev15
BSc Electrical Engineering — Wits◆AI Engineering Intern — Isazi.ai◆Full-Stack Developer — PikMe◆Padel Booking App — Astro◆Embedded Systems — Arduino & ESP32◆Circuit & PCB Design◆MATLAB & Simulink Certified◆Object-Oriented Dig Dug — C++◆Reverse Checkers AI — C++◆Morabaraba Board Game — C++◆Clap-Controlled RC Car — 50m Range◆Soft Robotics Backpack — ESP32◆Temperature & Humidity Sensor — Arduino◆3D Printing & Heat-Sealing◆Wits' First Biomedical Soft Robotics Course◆BSc Electrical Engineering — Wits◆AI Engineering Intern — Isazi.ai◆Full-Stack Developer — PikMe◆Padel Booking App — Astro◆Embedded Systems — Arduino & ESP32◆Circuit & PCB Design◆MATLAB & Simulink Certified◆Object-Oriented Dig Dug — C++◆Reverse Checkers AI — C++◆Morabaraba Board Game — C++◆Clap-Controlled RC Car — 50m Range◆Soft Robotics Backpack — ESP32◆Temperature & Humidity Sensor — Arduino◆3D Printing & Heat-Sealing◆Wits' First Biomedical Soft Robotics Course◆
03Recognition10
BEACON — Top 6 @ Discovery Gradhack 2026◆Club & Committee of the Year 2024◆Chairperson — Wits E-Sports 2023–25◆Wits E-Sports on National Television◆Represented Wits E-Sports on Metro FM◆Ecovolt Innovation — 2nd Place, €1,500◆Schneider Electric Battery Innovation◆15 Shipped Projects◆Trilingual — English · IsiZulu · Afrikaans◆TEFL / TESOL Advanced Certified◆BEACON — Top 6 @ Discovery Gradhack 2026◆Club & Committee of the Year 2024◆Chairperson — Wits E-Sports 2023–25◆Wits E-Sports on National Television◆Represented Wits E-Sports on Metro FM◆Ecovolt Innovation — 2nd Place, €1,500◆Schneider Electric Battery Innovation◆15 Shipped Projects◆Trilingual — English · IsiZulu · Afrikaans◆TEFL / TESOL Advanced Certified◆
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01Clinical
- 2018Started the Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice at Wits — first steps into medicine.
- 2020Clinical Associate at Kopanong Hospital, Vereeniging — assisted in cesarean sections, ran patient examinations, learned what real stakes feel like.
- Dec 2020Graduated with a Bachelor of Clinical Medical Practice from Wits.
- 2021–22COVID-19 vaccinator with the University of Pretoria & Anglo-American SA in Upington — community outreach across the Northern Cape during the pandemic.
- 2022Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision provider at CHAPS, Katlehong North Clinic — surgical assistance and patient counselling under a Locum Agreement.
02Engineering & Dev
- 2021Enrolled in BSc Electrical Engineering at Wits — swapping the operating table for a circuit board, one course at a time.
- 2022–25Deep-end coursework in embedded systems, circuit design, and signal processing, alongside Chairperson duties at Wits E-Sports Club.
- 2023–25Chairperson of Wits E-Sports Club — led the committee to 2024 Wits Sports Club & Committee of the Year, and represented the club on national TV and radio.
- 2025Full-stack dev at PikMe; shipped Object-Oriented Dig Dug and a clap-controlled RC car; started building soft robotics with the Backpack Inflation Add-On.
- 2026AI Engineering intern at Isazi.ai; Top 6 at Discovery Gradhack with BEACON; Wits' first Biomedical Soft Robotics course; Padel app at Astro; MATLAB certified — and chasing a future in AI engineering and data science next.
02the stack
WhatIbuildwith.
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Data Science & AI Engineering
◆Python◆PyTorch◆Hugging Face Transformers◆LangGraph◆LangChain◆LangSmith◆Speech Recognition (ASR)◆wav2vec2-BERT / CTC◆KenLM / Beam Search Decoding◆Language Identification◆Computer Vision◆Audio Classification◆LLM Integration & Multi-Provider Routing◆Prompt Engineering◆pandas◆Ensemble Methods (ROVER)
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Software
◆C/C++◆TypeScript◆JavaScript◆React◆Node.js◆Express.js◆Dart◆FlutterFlow◆FastAPI◆SQLAlchemy◆Supabase◆Firebase◆PostgreSQL◆SQL
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Embedded & Hardware
◆Arduino◆ESP32◆MATLAB◆Simulink◆LTSpice◆Circuit Design◆PCB Design
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Soft Robotics
◆Pneumatics◆Heat-Sealing◆3D Printing◆Wearable Devices
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Cloud & DevOps
◆AWS (Educate)◆Azure Container Apps◆Azure Database for PostgreSQL◆Vercel◆WebSockets◆Google OR-Tools◆Git◆CI / Testing
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Tools
◆CAD◆Inkscape
03build log
Featuredprojects.
05experience & leadership
WhereI'veworked.
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Backend & Systems Engineer
Team Sonar — Discovery Gradhack 2026 · 2026
Owned the backend architecture and API contract for BEACON, an AI community-safety platform. Top 6 finish. Built the suspicion-scoring engine, risk-forecasting and patrol-routing systems, and carried the project through cloud deployment on demo day.
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AI Engineering Intern
Isazi.ai · 2026
Built AI Middleman: an agentic WhatsApp assistant for contact filtering, matching, and reply drafting.
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Padel App Developer
Astro · 2025–26
Full-stack development on a padel booking app.
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Full-Stack Developer
PikMe · 2025
Built the driver onboarding platform end-to-end.
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Chairperson
Wits E-Sports Club · 2023–25
Led club to 2024 Wits Sports Club & Committee of the Year. Represented the club on national TV (SABC1's Telkom VS) and on Metro FM, advocating for esports as a professional sport in South Africa.
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VMMC Provider
CHAPS · 2022
Voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV prevention.
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COVID-19 Vaccinator
Department of Health · 2021–22
Frontline immunisation during the pandemic.
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Clinical Associate
Kopanong Hospital · 2020
Ward and clinical work as a qualified clinical associate.
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06training
Education&certifications.
Education
- BSc Electrical EngineeringUniversity of the Witwatersrand2021 – present (expected 2027)
- Bachelor of Clinical Medical PracticeUniversity of the Witwatersrand2018 – 2020
Certifications
- 01VMMC for HIV Prevention (2022)
- 02Advanced TEFL/TESOL (2022)
- 03First Aid Level 1 (2018)
- 04MATLAB Onramp (10 Jan 2026)
- 05Simulink Onramp (15 Jan 2026)
AWS Educate Badges
07signal
Let'sbuildsomething.
Recruiting, collaborating, or just curious about the clinician-to-engineer path? Drop a line.