Kgothatso Mokgaxi

Junior AI/ML Engineer with 1 year of hands-on production experience building AI-enabled systems — including RAG pipelines, LLM integration, and multi-agent architectures — within real product delivery contexts. Comfortable engineering the full path from data ingestion and vector search through to inference API integration and deployed frontend.

Not a researcher: everything here has shipped.

AI Developer & Full-Stack Engineer at Khonology (2025-05 – 2026-05)

• Engineered a RAG-powered governance and compliance engine using vector search and embeddings that reduced proposal review time by 60% — the primary AI delivery at the company.
• Built user-facing components, backend logic, and inference API integration for an AI content generation engine deployed on Hugging Face Spaces.
• Integrated LLM inference APIs (OpenAI, Hugging Face, OpenRouter) into production web applications, including token management, prompt tuning, and error handling.
• Led a team of 5 developers building AI-enabled products through sprint planning, ticket refinement, and code reviews using Jira and Agile/Scrum.
• Presented AI system roadmaps and delivery milestones to non-technical stakeholders.

Industrial Chemistry – Tshwane University of Technology (2020 – 2023)