Senior AI Engineer
A highly accomplished Senior AI Engineer with 12+ years of experience building and deploying cutting-edge AI/ML systems at top companies. My expertise spans machine learning architecture, LLMs, computer vision, NLP, and MLOps, solving complex problems across diverse industries.
About Me
A little more about my journey
My career has been defined by a passion for developing and deploying impactful AI solutions. I've worked across diverse industries, from FAANG companies to innovative startups, consistently pushing the boundaries of what's possible in artificial intelligence. My experience encompasses machine learning architecture, LLMs, computer vision, NLP, reinforcement learning, and MLOps. I am driven by tackling global-scale challenges, including climate change and personalized healthcare, leaving a lasting positive impact.
Experience
Senior AI Research Engineer
Google DeepMind • Mar 2022 – Present
Led AlphaCarbon's development, a generative protein folding model exceeding AlphaFold's inference speed; created knowledge-aware LLMs for scientific QA and built scalable TPUv4 training infrastructure with a 4x speedup.
Staff AI Engineer
Meta (Facebook AI Research - FAIR) • Oct 2018 – Feb 2022
Architected RealTimeDet, Meta's production object detection system; reduced model latency by 60% using quantized vision transformers; and co-authored Meta's fairness-aware recommendation engine for 3B users.
Senior Applied Scientist
Amazon Web Services (AWS AI Labs) • May 2015 – Sep 2018
Designed and deployed anomaly detection models for AWS Shield; built an AutoML pipeline supporting 500+ enterprise ML workloads; and led AWS Sagemaker's distributed training integration with Horovod and EFA.
Machine Learning Engineer II
Netflix • Jul 2013 – Apr 2015
Optimized personalization algorithms for dynamic thumbnails and content ranking; developed adaptive bit-rate prediction models for 200M+ global users.
AI/ML Intern
Apple • Summer 2012
Developed a voice intent classifier enhancing Siri's accuracy on African English accents by 35%.
Education
M.S. in Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University • 2011 – 2013
B.Sc. in Computer Science
Egerton University, Kenya • 2007 – 2011
Skills & Technologies
The tools and technologies I work with
Featured Projects
Some of my recent work
ClimateNet
Co-founded an open-source AI project leveraging satellite imagery and temporal transformers to predict extreme climate events, deploying it to African climate agencies for early flood warnings.
LLMGuard
Developed a security layer for enterprise LLMs to detect prompt injection, hallucination risks, and data leakage, adopted by 20+ clients and integrated into LangChain.
MediVision AI
Created a deep learning system for retinal disease detection using fundus images, deployed in 15 rural hospitals across India and East Africa.
SafeChat AI
Built an open-source system for contextual moderation and real-time toxicity filtering for chatbots and generative AI apps, achieving 10M+ Hugging Face downloads.
Let's Work Together
I'm always interested in new opportunities and exciting projects. If you have a question or just want to say hi, I'll get back to you!
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