Data Engineering AI/Ops Portal
Production monitoring portal for Hive tables and data pipelines on Cloudera Data Platform, with LLM-powered log interpretation and self-healing operations.
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Hello, my name is
Julia Ndawi
AI & Data Engineering
Building intelligent, self-monitoring systems. Based in Harare, Zimbabwe, passionate about AI, data engineering, and building production-ready systems.
2+
Years Experience
3+
Projects Built
10+
Certifications
Currently
AI/Data Eng Intern
@ Econet Wireless
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About
Final-year BSc Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning student with hands-on industry experience as an AI/Data Engineering intern at Econet Wireless Zimbabwe. Comfortable across the modern data stack — from big-data platforms and ETL pipelines to LLM-assisted automation — and across full-stack development. Passionate about building intelligent, self-monitoring systems.
Education
University of Zimbabwe
2023 — 2027
BSc (Honours) in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Academic Standing: Second Upper
Leadership
Oct 2023 — Present
Web Developer / Trainer
Django Girls Community (Zimbabwe)
Trainer for web development using the Django framework.
Mar 2024 — Present
Lead Programmer
Zimbabwe Python Programmers
Prepared budgets and financial statements. Raised and managed over USD 1,200 for a club of 150+ students.
Dec 2023 — Dec 2025
Faculty Representative
University of Zimbabwe
Advocated for computer upgrades in the CS department. Led an 8-member innovation team.
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Experience
AI / Data Engineering Intern
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe
Technology Division — Big Data & AI Section
- Designed and built a Data Engineering AI/Ops Portal — a monitoring system that visualizes the health and status of Hive tables and data pipelines in the company data lake on Cloudera Data Platform (CDP).
- Integrated Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically read and interpret pipeline logs, driving a self-healing operations workflow with diagnoses and remediation steps.
- Worked hands-on with Cloudera / Hadoop ecosystem (HDFS, Hive, Impala, NiFi, Kafka, Spark, Sqoop) and built services with Spring Boot, FastAPI, and React.
- Deployed via Docker and GitLab CI/CD across Big Data, AI, and Software Development rotations.
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Projects
Blood Donation System
Full-stack group project built with Django to manage blood donation workflows and donor coordination.
DjangoPythonPostgreSQL
Django Girls Zimbabwe
Community web development training platform and curriculum materials for aspiring developers across Zimbabwe.
DjangoPythonCommunity
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Skills & Certifications
Languages & Frameworks
PythonJavaJavaScriptReactReact NativeAngularFlutterPHPLaravel
Data & AI
Cloudera Data PlatformHiveHDFSApache NiFiKafkaSparkETL PipelinesLLM IntegrationMachine Learning
Tools & Practices
DockerGitLab CI/CDSpring BootFastAPIScrum/AgileImpalaSqoop
Certifications
CS50's Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Harvard University · 2024
Scrum Fundamentals for Software Engineering
Scrum.org · 2024
ICDL (International Computer Driving Licence)
ICDL · 2023
Introduction to Data Engineering
IBM / Coursera
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
IBM / Coursera
Python for Data Science, AI & Development
IBM / Coursera
ETL and Data Pipelines with Shell, Airflow and Kafka
IBM / Coursera
Languages
English · Shona · Ndebele · Portuguese (Beginner)
Currently pursuing: Docker, Project Management, CCNA
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Contact
Let's build something intelligent together.
Open to internships, collaborations, and interesting projects in AI, data engineering, and full-stack development.