Pelonomi Moiloa
Co-Founder CEO at Lelapa AI
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolPelonomi Moiloa is a technology leader and social innovator who co-founded Lelapa AI to develop language technology for African languages, enabling businesses to grow markets and improve customer experiences through indigenous solutions. She serves as CEO of Lelapa AI (since 2022) and as co-director of The Ungovernable NPC (since 2020), driving community-focused programs such as the Code Kamoso coding academy for girls and a guerrilla community garden. With a background in electrical and biomedical engineering, she holds an Engineer's Degree in Electrical Engineering, a Bachelor's in Biomedical/Medical Engineering from Wits, and a Master of Biomedical Engineering from Tohoku University. Her experience includes leading data science at Nedbank and CSIR internships, grounding her work in applied analytics and financial services research. Her impact has been recognized globally as a TIME 100 Most Influential in AI, a TED speaker, Bloomberg Catalyst 2023, and Mozilla Rise Awardee 2024. Beyond technology, she mentors and funds scholarships for promising young women in Johannesburg, connecting engineering, entrepreneurship, and community transformation.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree, Electrical Engineering, Engineer's Degree, Electrical Engineering at University of the WitwatersrandMaster of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Master of Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Tohoku University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
d3-js7
legend6
macos6
ssl-certificate6
python6
java6
ssl6
electron6
matplotlib6
predict5
visualization5
lstm4
names4
part-of-speech-tagger4
d3js4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
TamatiB/coding_academy
Jul 2019 - Jul 2021
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
TamatiB/ml_fairness
Jul 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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