01About 02Skills 03Projects 04Learning 05Contact ↓Download résumé
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — OPEN TO REMOTE

Data & AI systems builder, turning messy operations into working products.

I'm Ofentse — Product & Operations Analyst at Sirius Sales, co-founder of Auralith, and the builder behind eight working prototypes spanning fintech inclusion, health tracking, staffing logistics, and trading systems. I don't just analyse problems. I ship the system that fixes them.

01 / About

I bridge analytics, engineering, and applied AI — and I actually ship.

By day, I'm a Product & Operations Analyst at Sirius Sales, where I've spent years turning supplier and SKU-level performance data into structured reports and process frameworks that get adopted company-wide. That work taught me how operations actually break in practice — not in theory.

Outside of that, I'm co-founding Auralith, a SaaS company built to bring real operational digitisation to SMEs across Africa, structured around five specialist divisions and a long-term platform vision called FieldOS. It's the throughline for most of what I build.

I'm currently deepening my fundamentals through ALX/ExploreAI's Data Engineering Certificate, and I've completed Anthropic Academy programs in AI Fluency, the Claude API, Model Context Protocol, and Claude Code — because building AI systems properly means understanding what's happening under the hood, not just calling an endpoint.

What ties all of it together: I don't stop at the analysis or the pitch deck. Eight working prototypes — covering financial inclusion, chronic illness management, staffing logistics, trading analytics, women's mentorship, offline-first CRM, and vocational assessment — started as problems I noticed and ended as systems I built.

RoleProduct & Ops Analyst, Sirius Sales
BuildingAuralith (co-founder)
StudyingData Engineering Cert, ALX/ExploreAI
Certified4× Anthropic Academy
Based inJohannesburg, ZA
AvailableRemote, worldwide
02 / Skills

What I actually work with

Grouped by how I use it, not as a flat tag cloud. The radar reflects working proficiency, self-assessed against real project use — not a certification score.

/01 Data Analytics & BI
SQL (CTEs, Joins, Views, Window Fns) Power BI DAX Statistical Analysis Data Validation Pipelines
/02 Data Engineering
Python (Pandas, NumPy) ETL / Data Pipelines DynamoDB PostgreSQL Schema Design
/03 AI / LLM Systems
Claude API & Tool Use Model Context Protocol Agent Memory Architecture Prompt Engineering Gemini AI
/04 Product & Full-Stack
React (PWA) Supabase Google Cloud Figma Project Management
Working proficiency across core disciplines
03 / Featured Projects

Eight problems. Eight working prototypes.

None of these are live yet — they're all functioning prototypes, built to prove the model works before scaling. Each one started as a real problem, not a portfolio exercise.

Auralith

Parent SaaS company — SME operational digitisation for Africa
In Development
Problem
African SMEs run high-value operations on WhatsApp groups, spreadsheets, and memory — with no affordable path to real operational infrastructure.
What I Built
Co-founded and architected a parent company with five specialist divisions (AI, Systems, Analytics, Studio, Ops) plus an associates model with revenue-sharing and quality gates — productising operational digitisation as services first, with FieldOS as the long-term platform bet.
Product StrategySaaS ArchitectureAI IntegrationStakeholder Design

PromoteForce

AI-powered staffing marketplace
Prototype
Problem
Staffing and promotions agencies coordinate shifts and multi-region workforces manually across spreadsheets, causing allocation errors and compliance gaps.
What I Built
A staffing marketplace with role-based access control, a 20-table PostgreSQL schema, and full shift lifecycle management, with real-time state coordination across regions.
Supabase (PostgreSQL)Upstash RedisResendReactGoogle AI Studio

Sirius Field

Offline-first field sales CRM
Prototype
Problem
Field sales teams need to execute store visits, track tasks, and manage orders — but field connectivity is inconsistent, and most CRMs assume a constant connection.
What I Built
Defined and designed an offline-first field CRM covering store execution, task tracking, and order management, grounded in my own real field-operations experience at Sirius Sales.
Product DesignCRM ArchitectureOffline-First UXWorkflow Mapping

QuantTrader Assistant

Rule-based SMC trading decision support
Prototype
Problem
Discretionary Smart Money Concepts trading is prone to inconsistent execution — the same setup gets judged differently depending on mood, fatigue, or recency bias.
What I Built
A rule-based trading decision-support system implementing SMC, with structured trade journaling, compliance monitoring, risk-management rules, and an analytics dashboard for performance tracking.
PythonRule-Based LogicData AnalyticsDashboard Design

Femfoundry

Structured mentorship platform for women in competitive fields
Wireframe
Problem
Women trying to break into competitive fields often lack access to mentors who've actually done it — generic networking platforms don't solve for structured, outcome-focused mentorship.
What I Built
As product manager, project manager, and UX designer, led the design of a LinkedIn-style platform connecting accomplished women with women pursuing specific fields — from wireframes through project planning.
Product ManagementUX Design (Figma)Project Management

Imali Trust

Financial inclusion for underbanked South Africans
Prototype
Problem
Underbanked South Africans often turn to informal, high-interest lenders because formal financial infrastructure doesn't serve them — trapping people in cycles of debt.
What I Built
A financial inclusion platform where people can save money and borrow against it at interest, structured as a viable alternative to informal lending.
ReactGoogle AI StudioGemini API

T2D Companion

Type 2 diabetes tracking & care companion
Prototype
Problem
Type 2 diabetes is widely underdiagnosed and poorly managed, partly because patients lack simple tools to track patterns between medication, insulin, blood sugar, and mood between doctor's visits.
What I Built
A companion app with medication and doctor's-appointment reminders, plus logging for insulin intake, sugar levels, and mood — with spreadsheet export so patients can bring structured data to their next appointment.
ReactGoogle AI StudioGemini API

Vocational Assessment Platform

Skills onboarding for literacy-impaired learners
Prototype — Phase 4/7
Problem
Learners with literacy challenges (ages 10–18) in special and skills schools need a way to discover which trades suit them — but most assessment tools assume fluent reading and writing.
What I Built
An AI-powered onboarding and assessment system across seven trade modules, using voice input and Gemini AI scoring so learners can demonstrate ability without needing to read or write, delivered as an offline-capable PWA.
React (PWA)Gemini APISupabaseWeb Speech API
04 / Certifications & Learning

Still building the fundamentals, on purpose

In chronological order, most recent first.

Jul 2026
Introduction to Model Context Protocol (MCP)
MCP fundamentals — connecting AI models to external tools, APIs, and data sources.
Anthropic Academy
Jul 2026
Claude Code 101
Foundations of Claude Code — agentic coding workflows and CLI-based AI development.
Anthropic Academy
2025
Claude Code in Action
Hands-on Claude Code development — building real systems in production-style environments.
Anthropic Academy
2025
Claude with the Anthropic API
Practical API integration — prompt engineering, structured calls, and AI-powered app design.
Anthropic Academy
2025
AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
AI concepts and foundational principles. Internationally accredited.
Anthropic — accredited by UCC, Ringling College, HEA & National Forum
Sep 2025 —
Data Engineering Certificate
SQL, Python, Power BI, data modelling — with integrated project work on multi-table databases and BI dashboards. In progress.
ALX / ExploreAI Academy
Jun–Sep 2025
AI Career Essentials
AI fundamentals, practical applications, and entrepreneurial empowerment.
ALX
2024
AI & ML Scholars Program
Machine learning fundamentals, cloud AI services, and applied ML concepts.
Amazon Web Services
05 / Contact

Building something? Let's talk.

Open to remote roles in data analytics, data engineering, and applied AI systems — and open to conversations about Auralith.