Pelonomi is CEO and co-founder of Lelapa AI - A socially grounded African centric AI research lab and product house. Pelonomi has spent 8 years in the data science domain and spent the last 4 years in the finance industry as team lead of a data science team in developing and productionalising machine learning solutions for one of the top 5 banks. She has Biomedical and Electrical Engineering degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand and an MSc from Tohoku University where on scholarship she did research on a deep learning application for neurophysiology. A community organiser she is Trustee of the Ruth First Jeppe Memorial Trust and runs the Code Kamoso coding academy for girl teens as co-director of The Ungovernable NPC. Pelonomi was named to the 200 Young South Africans list in 2019.