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THABELO MMBENGENI

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER · CHIEF ARCHITECT · AGENTIC AI

Technology leader with 15+ years spanning software development, system architecture and engineering leadership. I turn business goals into robust, scalable systems — today focused on architecting agentic AI, AI-powered chatbots and automation that streamline how businesses run.

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          ◈ MIDRAND, GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA◈ +27 82 497 5852
        

            CLASS · TECHNOLOGY LEADERLVL 9
          

CAREER XP15+ YRS / MASTERED

LEVEL-UPS

ENGINEERS LED

YEARS EXPERIENCE

COMPANIES SHIPPED FOR

CURRENTLY

Building agentic AI systems and automation at FCB.ai — autonomous agent workflows, LLM orchestration and AI-driven business automation with Claude, n8n and custom agents.

◤ THE JOURNEY

Career progression map

9 level-ups · 2008 → present

9

CTO, Architect & Developer

AUG 2024 — PRESENT

FCB.ai (formerly Finchatbot) BOSS LEVEL · ACTIVE

Lead architecture, full-stack development and systems administration. Design agentic AI chatbots and autonomous agent workflows, integrating LLMs into production with end-to-end orchestration and n8n automation.

Claude NestJS n8n Agentic AI

8

Chief Technology Officer — Contractor

FEB 2022 — AUG 2024

Decommerce, Switzerland +2.5 YRS XP

Architected all business technology directly from requirements. Built GPT-based automation and RAG within the SaaS ecosystem, guided Web2/Web3 integrations, and owned security, compliance and DevOps on GCP.

GCP GraphQL RAG

7

Chief Architect Officer

AUG 2021 — FEB 2022

Finchatbot ARCHITECT UNLOCKED

Architected all business technology systems, designed from requirements to high-level components, selected technologies and their interconnections, and led architectural and team code reviews.

Microservices Event-Driven

6

Chief Technology Officer

JAN 2019 — AUG 2021

Finchatbot ORG BUILDER

Defined the technology roadmap, recruitment strategy, org structure and costing to scale the business. Ran client scoping, set delivery processes, and administered Linux cloud systems across AWS, HostAfrica and Rackspace.

Linux AWS

5

Lead Developer

AUG 2017 — JAN 2019

Finchatbot LED 8 DEVS

Led a team of 8 developers, architected AI chatbot systems and automation software, produced detailed specs and production code with automated testing, and built analytics tools for clients and internal use.

Node.js AI Chatbots

4

Senior Developer

FEB 2015 — SEP 2017

Bettech · Ekaya +2.5 YRS XP

Designed backend systems and RESTful APIs, integrated third-party services, implemented unit and integration testing and CI/CD, optimised SQL, and modernised legacy Java.

PHP MySQL PostgreSQL Elasticsearch

3

Senior Front-End & Mobile Developer

JUL 2013 — DEC 2014

Altech ISIS MOBILE UNLOCKED

Built front-end web and mobile apps for Android and iOS, created RESTful APIs, improved UI/UX, and applied CI/CD to the existing environment while liaising with customers on requirements.

JavaScript HTML5 CSS

2

Team Lead — Web & Mobile

MAR 2012 — JUL 2013

ZaPOP FIRST COMMAND

Managed a team of 8 web and mobile developers including hiring, ran daily Scrum, delivered full-stack CakePHP for internal and external clients, and managed a Rackspace server cluster with custom CI/CD.

Ruby Git CakePHP

1

Junior Software Developer

NOV 2008 — FEB 2012

Traffic Management Technologies ORIGIN STORY

Software design and development in C/C++ and Java, including custom Linux modules and OS-level development, plus tools for testing, data analysis and 3D-simulation post-processing.

C/C++ Java

◤ INVENTORY

Tech arsenal

LANGUAGES

Node.js JavaScript Java C / C++ React HTML5 CSS

FRAMEWORKS

NestJS Next.js React Native Laravel Ruby Strapi

DATA & QUERY

PostgreSQL MySQL Redis GraphQL

CLOUD & DEVOPS

Google Cloud AWS Docker DigitalOcean Datadog Linux Nginx Apache Jenkins GitHub Actions

AI & AUTOMATION

Claude Code OpenAI Codex Google Gemini n8n Agentic AI RAG Agent Orchestration

◤ STATS

Skill proficiency

System Architecture 0

Technical Leadership 0

Backend Engineering 0

Full-Stack Delivery 0

Agentic AI & Automation 0

Cloud & DevOps 0

◤ ACHIEVEMENTS

Trophies unlocked

XV UNLOCKED ✓

Veteran

15+ years shipping software across the full stack and the org chart.

VIII UNLOCKED ✓

Team Commander

Built and led engineering teams of up to 8, including hiring and mentoring.

II UNLOCKED ✓

Global Operator

Delivered as CTO across South Africa and a Switzerland contract.

AI UNLOCKED ✓

AI Pioneer

Agentic AI, RAG and LLM orchestration running in production systems.

ARC UNLOCKED ✓

Chief Architect

Microservices and event-driven systems designed straight from business goals.

SCL UNLOCKED ✓

Startup Scaler

Defined roadmaps, org structure and DevOps to scale a growing business.

◤ ORIGIN

Education & more

BSc Computer Science

University of the Western Cape — completed all computer science modules.

Languages

English · Tshivenda

Interests

Travel · Music (DJ) · Reading · Video games

◤ NEW QUEST

Let us build something

Open to conversations on technology leadership, architecture and agentic AI. The fastest way to reach me is LinkedIn or a call.

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