# Siyabonga(Bonga) Matchaba

> AI Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/siyabongabonga

## Work Experience
### Machine Learning Solutions Engineer @ Mendel.ai
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
Mendel is a clinical AI platform for life sciences and healthcare organizations that deciphers health data with clinician-like logic. It indexes structured and unstructured data and replaces the complexity of querying with the simplicity of chatting.

### Ai4Life Resident @ Novartis
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | East Hanover, New Jersey, United States
Received RWE(Real World Evidence) Training on Optum’s Electronic Health Record(EHR/EMR) data
- Developed pipeline with multiprocessing capabilities to ingest Real World Evidence for 1⁄3 of the American Populus
- Developed codebase to train a Convolutional Neural Network in Pytorch for model capable of Early Prediction of
Pancreatic Cancer
- Designed and Implemented custom pySpark ETL jobs for Big Data Transformations over datasets containing billions of rows
- Trained models using cloud based GPU
- Exceeded AUC, and Sensitivity

### Graduate Student @ Northwestern University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Evanston, Illinois, United States
Engaged in curriculum that explores artificial intelligence technologies, and the creation of systems that function well when embedded in human workflows. Course instruction was supplemented by an internship and projects working with industry partners

### Machine Learning Engineer @ Northwestern C3 Lab
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Evanston, Illinois, United States
- Partnered with Otus (Software based K-12 Learning Management company) to develop an AI assistant tool for teachers by utilizing
a KNeighborsClassifier for model development and flask for api deployment.
- Created app testing classes by using Pytest, and utilized bitbucket pipeline for easy product deployment(created by using .YML).
- All development was completed in Python

### Co-Founder @ Hexient Solutions
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Hexient is an HR software company that helps recruiting teams make smarter hiring decisions by providing them with real time insights
into their candidate’s job relevant skills. I developed the backend functionality of the product by utilizing PhP, and Javascript(JQuery)
and developed the database functionality by utilizing mysql in a hosted cloud web service. I developed the initial functionality for the Api
by utilizing Python Flask. - https://hexientsolutions.com/

### ​NLP Developer @ Qpiphany
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Evanston, Illinois, United States
- Designed and developed NLP pipeline to utilize text in order to make domain specific recommendations
- Performed text syntax analysis by using Spacy
- Integrated Prodigy to assist in initial mass data annotation by utilizing Python to read and extract information from Client Letters(PDF
documents).
- All development was completed in Python

### Finance/Operations intern @ Aurate New York
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York

### Consulting/web development intern @ Acceleration Group, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York

### Business analyst @ Novartis
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Johannesburg Area, South Africa
•	Completed training in regulatory affairs, quality assurance, pharma co-vigilance, indirect and direct procurement, and supply chain strategy, market + data analysis, business planning and analysis
•	Participated in promotional campaigns to assist upcoming product launch
•	Assisted in finance and BPA (business planning and analysis) strategy
•	Synthesized and sorted raw surveyed data from 900+ General practitioners and 200+ specialists
Received individualized coaching from department heads to achieve targeted professional developmental goals


## Education
### Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence
Northwestern University

### Bachelor's degree in Finance, Computer Science
New York University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/siyabonga-bonga-matchaba-60b934102

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Last updated: 2026-03-29