Welcome to my GitHub. I am Ernest Bhekizwe Shongwe....
🌍 Location: Currently in Randburg, Johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦
💼 Open to:
- Remote, on-site and hybrid work
- consultations
- mentorship
👨💻 Feel free to reach out using the contact details on this page.
I am a passionate Software Engineer and AI Enthusiast with a mission to create impactful digital solutions. With a strong foundation in full-stack development and cloud technologies. I thrive in building scalable, efficient and innovative applications, APIs, data warehouses, as well as secure CI/CD & ML data pipelines.
- Intermediate Developer at Popping
- 🏅 C17 Valedictorian graduate, ALX Africa Software Engineering Programme in 2024
- 📝 Writing about tech on Medium
- 🎨 Combining creativity with code in my portfolio
- 🚀 An active member of the Google Developer Group (GDG) Johannesburg
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📜 AWS credentials
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📜 Oracle credentials
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📜 IBM credentials
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📜 Google Cloud credentials
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📜 freeCodeCamp credentials
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Recognition:
- 🏅 Featured Valedictorian graduate at ALX Africa for the ALX Software Engineering Programme
- Contributor to several open-source projects
- Built a robust multi-job & multi-level tasked CI/CD pipeline for Beqy.ai for a Microsoft Azure and AWS deployment
- Geekulcha 2025 Hackathon participant
- Volunteered for Google Developer Group (GDG) Johannesburg 2025
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| Databases |      |
| DevOps and Cloud Tech |        |
| Version Control |    |
| Testing Frameworks |    |
| AI/ML Technologies |    |
| Others (Tools/Platforms) |      |
Feel free to reach out if you'd like to collaborate or discuss exciting opportunities!
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
– Alan Kay