
Mohau Masedi
Intelligent Automation Lead | Senior Solution Engineer — .NET / Python
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About
Engineer-first automation leader with 12+ years building production software in C#, .NET, Python and SQL Server, and 8+ of those specialising in enterprise RPA at the highest certified developer tier across Blue Prism, UiPath and Automation Anywhere. Currently heads a 10-person robotics practice, owning solution architecture and end-to-end delivery for banking and professional-services clients while remaining hands-on in code and design review. Equally comfortable defining an automation operating model for a bank or building the .NET services, REST integrations and data layer underneath it.
International delivery experience across South Africa, Nigeria and Belgium.
Experience
Principal Consultant — Robotics Head at Inlumi South Africa (2021-01 – Present)
- Lead a 10+ person practice of RPA developers and specialists across the full delivery lifecycle — solution design, development, testing, deployment and hypercare.
- Own automation roadmaps for enterprise clients, balancing multi-year strategy against quarterly delivery commitments.
- Architect multi-bot solutions and set the engineering standards — reusable object layers, exception handling, testing and validation gates — that underpin consistent first-time-right delivery.
- Drive adoption of AI-driven and ML-assisted automation into processes previously too unstructured for rules-based RPA.
- Mentor, upskill and performance-manage the team; run technical review, cross-skilling and hiring input.
Robotics Manager — Technical Lead at EY (Ernst & Young) (2017-06 – 2020-12)
- Technical lead on multi-bot, fully scalable Blue Prism builds automating clients' day-to-day operations end to end.
- Stood up and maintained Blue Prism environments at client sites and standardised the shared reusable business-object layer across their infrastructure.
- Practice escalation point for complex defects raised by other developers; resolved issues across every RPA division as sole developer on Nedbank's RPA SWAT team.
- Built one of the firm's first cognitive bots (AWS speech + REST API + Blue Prism), showcased at the EY Partner Conference.
- Designed and delivered the RPA training programme for EY Nigeria's robotics practice and major clients, taking developers from novice to production-ready.
- Rated the practice's stand-out developer for the 2018 financial year.
Intermediate Software Developer at ScannerVision (2015-08 – 2017-06)
- Built multifunction-printer device clients and integrated them into the core document-capture platform.
- Owned software flow and design against product roadmaps; delivered first-time-right builds to QA.
- Maintained and extended existing production systems to engineering best-practice standards.
Junior Software Developer at Tracker Connect (Pty) Ltd (2014-08 – 2015-07)
- Developed and maintained.NET web and desktop applications across the vehicle-tracking product suite.
- Built a reusable web-based map component library that handled all map requests and was integrated across multiple applications.
- Worked in Agile with TFS; unit-tested, debugged and maintained live systems.
Software Developer — Internship at Concentra Media (2013-01 – 2014-01)
- Designed and built N-tier.NET web and desktop applications alongside senior developers at a European media group.
- Developed SSIS packages and scripts and extended the existing SQL Server database.
- Authored reusable.NET libraries adopted by the senior development team.
- Contributed to application and mobile testing alongside the senior QA team.
Software Developer — Volunteer at Life Spring Ministries (2012-01 – 2012-07)
- Full-lifecycle build of the ministry's management system — analysis, design, development and implementation.
Education
BSc in Computing – Belgium Campus (2010 – 2015)
Matric in Mathematics, IT, Accounting, Economics – Northern Academy (2009)
