Takunda Maunganidze

Data Engineer & Developer

Transforming raw data into actionable insights. Specializing in large-scale ETL pipelines, cloud architecture, and AI-powered solutions for billion-record datasets.

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About Me

Takunda Maunganidze is a data-driven and detail-oriented Data Engineer with proven experience in building and optimizing ETL pipelines across large-scale datasets. He has successfully managed end-to-end data migrations involving over a billion records, leveraging technologies such as PySpark, SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and AWS.

1B+ Records

Processed in large-scale migrations

AWS Expert

Cloud architecture & optimization

ML & AI

TensorFlow, Keras, NLP models

Technical Expertise

Data Engineering
PySpark
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
ETL Pipelines
Logstash
Cloud Platforms
AWS EC2
S3
EMR
Lambda
RDS
ML & AI
TensorFlow
Keras
FastText
NLP
Supervised ML
Visualization
Power BI
OpenSearch
Elasticsearch
Dashboards

Professional Journey

Developer and Data Scientist

Rushreeds Holdings (Rushanalytics)

Johannesburg, South Africa

Nov 2024 - Present

Key Achievements

  • • Deployed municipal WhatsApp chatbot system for complaint logging and tracking
  • • Built valuation roll analytics dashboard with geospatial data integration
  • • Developed AI-powered column classifier improving data harmonization by 90%

Data Scientist

Athstat Gaming and Nuborders (BITE)

Remote

Jan 2023 - May 2025

Key Achievements

  • • Enhanced PySpark pipeline performance on AWS EMR
  • • Built OpenSearch dashboards for millions of records visualization
  • • Improved data integrity and minimized corruption

Featured Projects

Municipal Chatbot & Digital Services

Nov 2024 - Present

WhatsApp chatbots with Dialogflow & Twilio for municipal service logging and valuation queries.

Bulk Data Ingest Platform

Jan 2024 - Present

Migrated from Kibana to OpenSearch; transferred over a billion documents across 20+ countries.

ML Column Predictor

Jan 2024 - May 2024

TensorFlow/Keras model to standardize trade data vocabulary with supervised learning.

Valuation Roll Dashboard

Nov 2024 - Present

Web dashboard consolidating municipal property records with geospatial mapping.

Asset Management MVP

Nov 2024 - Present

Platform for tracking municipal assets with role-based access and real-time dashboards.

AI-Agent & Synthetic Data

Ongoing

Modules for simulating user and asset activity to test municipal systems.

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Technologies & Tools

AWS
Python
Spark
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
TensorFlow
Power BI
Docker

Experienced with industry-leading technologies for data engineering, cloud computing, and machine learning