Engombe Lokanga
Computer Science at Birmingham City University
I'm curious about building great technology... I started programming at 10 and it lead me to... 💻Building 10+ projects 🏆Competing in 5 programming hackathons 📜 Researching machine learning and natural language processing for African languages 🌍 I currently contribute in open-source, making the iconic Minesweeper game💣and open-science for Cohere Labs on African AI
Work by Engombe Lokanga
- Bantu Language LLM for English & Swahili
Built a translation model to translate English to Swahili & vice versa for my undergraduate degree.
- MarketMind
Built a web app for founders to gain feedback for their product, idea or webpage based on digital avatars of real people Launched on Product Hunt with 4 upvotes and onboarded early users through LinkedIn Built with Next.js, Supabase (a relational database) and Google’s Generative AI…
- Hackathon Projects
Collaborated in teams of 4 to rapidly develop prototype applications in 24 hours Roles ranged from full-stack dev to team coordinator and pitch presenter Projects included an AI-based decision-making tool, an employee productivity app and a sports web app
- Automatic Plant Watering System
Developed an automatic plant watering system🪴 in C++ which waters the plant depending on its condition. This was a project I worked on in my first year of university with a team of 5. We used equipment in electronics to power the watering system.
- OccultPod Podcast Website
I co-hosted a podcast for 2 years with a good friend so thought about using my web development skills to develop our own podcast website built with the MERN Stack. I used and applied the rss-parser NPM package to extract the RSS feed of my podcast. The project was inspired by The Real Python…