Building innovative solutions by day, empowering the next generation by night.

I'm a driven software engineer with a passion for crafting elegant code and tackling complex problems. By day, I'm building data pipelines and wrangling intelligence at a risk management firm. By night, I'm not only fueling future tech talent as a Teaching Assistant at a leading coding school, but I'm also actively involved in building my own technology startup, QuStack, aiming to solve some of Africa's most pertinent problems in fraud-free house searching, healthcare technology, and fintech.

• Data Whisperer: My daily grind involves parsing, cleaning, analyzing, and wrangling diverse data sets. I build efficient Python scripts and robust data pipelines to unlock hidden insights.
• Full-Stack Fluency: Web apps, APIs, medical solutions, city management systems - you name it, I've built it. Adept in various languages and frameworks, I thrive in dynamic environments.
• Hackathon Hero: A constant learner, I push my boundaries through hackathons and contests, exploring Conversational AI and web app development.

• Empowering the Future: I mentor aspiring engineers, sharing my journey and the invaluable lessons learned from startups and the knowledge I have gathered along the way from some of the brightest and best thinkers and problem solvers.
• Sharing the Knowledge: I tutor college students, helping them master C++, Python, and JavaScript, preparing them for success.
• Aspiring Speaker: I am ready to take the stage and inspire others with my experiences and insights.
• Information Catalyst
  • Rooibos Radar (Co-founder): Curating and sharing the latest innovations and trends in technology through our newsletter (https://rooibosradar.com/).
  • Medium Blog: Regularly publish insights and analysis on tech, opinions and thoughts (https://medium.com/@andilembele).
• Looking for: Collaborations, challenges, and opportunities to make a real impact.

Connect with me! [LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andile-jaden-mbele/]

I owe the success of my insightful journey in Tech to several people who have helped me in so many ways. I cannot mention them all, however, I will have to give a shoutout to my mother who gave me her entire August 2017 salary so I can buy myself a laptop and start writing code, my uncle Mangosuthu Mbele who is my mentor, Vuyisile Ndlovu, the mentor who has served as the go-to person whenever I needed some guidance, the guiding hand ever since I got in tech and my most significant influence on why I love Python. I am forever grateful to Eric Khumalo and EmziniWeCode who have pushed me thus far. I am eternally grateful for the friends I have made through Emzini We Code.

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2. Pycountrycode
3. Personal Page

1. Technology
2. Healthcare
3. FinTech
4. AgTech
5. Rocket Engineering
6. Research & Development
7. Energy Generation
8. Intelligence

1. Reading ~ I read about 30 books a year
2. Podcasts
3. Audiobooks
4. Resume Design
5. Is analysis a hobby? Yeah that's me
6. Teaching (I am a TA for EmziniWeCode)
7. Rocket Science ~ Ask me anything about Soyuz, Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Starship, Dragon, New Glen, New Sherpard, or Delta IV Heavy) and Space.
8. Healthcare and fitness fanatic ~ BMI of 20.7
9. Hacktivism ~ Data & Privacy Rights
10. Charitable causes & community service
11. Business & Entrepreneurship (ACT In Africa & Startup Weekend can attest to that)
12. Fighter Jets notably the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, and of course the Russian Sukhoi Su-57
13. Chess
14. Sight-seeing
15. I love hackathons
16. I cycle
17. I run 5km three days a week.
18. Building stuff
19. F1
20. Writing and journaling. Check here and here