Hobokela Mika Mwakajumba | Geoscientist & Data Scientist

Who I am

About Me

I'm Hobokela. I read the earth, build things with data, teach what I learn, and write down the rest.

Geologist by training, but I've never stayed in one lane. These days I'm deep in agentic AI, chasing what it could do for computational geoscience. And honestly? I'm only getting started.

Earth science, code, a classroom, a blank page: different rooms, same me. I don't do anything halfway.

Years at it

Projects & builds

Pieces written

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Still curious

Where I learned

Education

2020-2024

Bsc Geology and Geothermal Resources

University of Dar es Salaam

2024

Python Bootcamp

CoICT — University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

The bootcamp that turned Python from something I'd heard about into the tool I reach for every day. Everything I build in data science stands on it.

Completed March 2026

Fellowship in Drilling-Related Geomechanics

UNESCO & the Government of Poland

Months spent on how rock behaves under drilling stress: wellbore stability, pore pressure, and why boreholes fail when you read the rock wrong.

"The classes that
stuck with me."

The ones I'd take again in a heartbeat.

Mineralogy Structural Geology Python:Intro to Machine Learning Statistics Data Science Volcanology

What I've built

Work & Projects

From rock faces to datasets: the roles, research and builds that shaped me. Earth science and data, side by side.

2024 — 2026

Geoscientist

APYKEGS ENERGY SERVICES

At APYKEGS, I am a Geoscientist. The part I'm proudest of: Spearheading a project that integrated geological data with machine learning techniques.

Earth Science

2025 — 2026

Tabia App

Personal Build

Tabia is Kiswahili for habit and character. I wrote every line of it in Python, and building it taught me more about real software than any course ever did.

Data & AI

2025

Field Work — Gold Exploration

Consulting for KEGS

Field manager for a Barrick charted gold exploration project in Bulyanhulu Kahama, Tanzania.

Project

In motion

Activity Videos

Fieldwork, talks, and the moments worth keeping. Press play.

Graphite Minerals and Technological Potential in Tanzania — Radio Interview, Part 1 (Swahili)

Speaking on a Tanzanian radio station about the technologies that depend on graphite and the country’s own deposits.

Graphite Minerals and Technological Potential in Tanzania — Radio Interview, Part 2 (Swahili)

Speaking on a Tanzanian radio station about the technologies that depend on graphite and the country’s own deposits.

What I listen to

Podcasts I Love

The conversations that rewire how I think: the shows I keep coming back to.

Flip ⟲

Desert Island Discs — Abdulrazak Gurnah

Gurnah made me rethink creative writing. He uses memory itself to carry experience, ideas and information to the reader, and hearing him explain it felt quietly ingenious.

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The Joe Rogan Experience — Dean Radin

Radin pins your attention to the actual science of the mind, then leaves you to work out how to live inside that reality. I still think about parts of this conversation.

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The Diary of a CEO — Neil deGrasse Tyson

Tyson on the future of our species and the voyages waiting for us out there, starting with our neighbour Mars. As someone who reads landscapes for a living, extraterrestrial ones pull at me.

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AI, Digital Narcissism & Human Dignity

Part five of the series. It asks what AI can sharpen in geology and meteorology without dulling the human core, drawing on Pope Leo's call to coexist with technology while keeping human dignity whole.

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Being Well — Emotions at Work with Liz Fosslien

Practical ways to stay connected when work feels overwhelming. Now I pause, name what I'm feeling, and reach out instead of withdrawing.

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Transform Your Workplace — Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence as a working skill: noticing what I feel, and what others might be feeling, then responding on purpose rather than reacting.

Beyond the desk

Life & Aspirations

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Reading

Always mid-book.

🚴

Cycling

Mountain e-biking(With Duotts N26), Road biking with Rockstar, and scooter rides on some days.

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Exploring

New ground, on foot or by map. Been to; Poland[Warsaw, Krakow, Lodz], Tanzania[Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, Mbeya, Serengeti],Estonia[Tallinn],Iceland[Reykjavik], Netherlands[Amsterdam], Austria[Vienna], France[Paris], Czech Republic[Prague], Slovakia[Bratislava].

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Building Things

Applications (the Tabia app, for example), websites, workflows: if I can make it, I will.

"The things I'm
reaching for."

Short-term

Linking generative and agentic AI applications and developments to data and Geo-science operations

Long-term

Technoprenuer, innovating at the intersection between new technologies, resource extraction, use, management and sustainability.

The bigger picture

In the grand scale I want to make use of my potential to further make a meaningful impact in the world by putting to use my skills and passion in data and Geo-sciences

One person.
Many worlds.

About Me