Samkelo Nikwe
AI Operations & Implementation Specialist | AI Automation | LLMs | Agents | RAG | Python
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AI Operations and Implementation-focused developer with hands-on experience building and integrating LLM-powered applications, agentic systems, RAG pipelines, and AI backends into practical workflows. Experienced with Claude API, prompt engineering, tool use/function calling, agent loops, retrieval, context management, structured outputs, streaming, prompt caching, MCP, and workflow automation. Currently developing practical proficiency with n8n to connect AI capabilities, APIs, triggers, tools, and business processes into repeatable workflows.
I can work across the AI implementation layer—from understanding a business use case and designing the workflow to integrating models, tools, retrieval, APIs, and data persistence—and I bring a strong learning mindset and ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and engineering environments. Open to remote and distributed teams.
Education
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) - Durban University of Technology (2018 - 2020)
