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, and MLOps, solving complex problems across various industries.
About Me
A little more about my journey
I am a results-oriented AI leader with a proven track record of success in building and scaling AI/ML systems for FAANG companies and impactful startups. My passion lies in leveraging the power of AI to solve global challenges—from fraud detection and autonomous systems to climate change and personalized healthcare. I excel in machine learning architecture, LLMs, computer vision, NLP, reinforcement learning, and MLOps, consistently delivering innovative and scalable solutions.
Experience
Senior AI Research Engineer
Google DeepMind • Mar 2022 – Present
Spearheaded the development of AlphaCarbon, a generative protein folding model; developed knowledge-aware LLMs for scientific QA; and built scalable distributed training infrastructure, achieving a 4x speedup on TPUv4 pods.
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 + EFA.
Machine Learning Engineer II
Netflix • Jul 2013 – Apr 2015
Optimized personalization algorithms for dynamic thumbnails and content ranking; and developed adaptive bit-rate prediction models for 200M+ global users.
AI/ML Intern
Apple • Summer 2012
Developed a voice intent classifier that improved 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 that leverages 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+ enterprise clients and integrated into LangChain plugins.
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 project for contextual moderation and real-time toxicity filtering for chatbots and generative AI apps, with a Hugging Face model exceeding 10M 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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