About
I'm an AI and machine-learning engineer in Nairobi. I studied Business and Information Technology at JKUAT, and my first data work was risk profiling of tax cases for audit, as an intern at the Kenya Revenue Authority. It taught me what a model is for: a decision that someone has to defend.
Since then I've built models and the systems around them: fraud scoring, anti-money-laundering monitoring for Kenyan payments, and legal research that cites its sources or says nothing. Most of it is for Kenyan finance and law, where a wrong answer costs money or a case, and where the data doesn't look like the benchmarks.
I care most about what happens after the demo works. Is the test set honest? Does the system say when it doesn't know? Can one firm read another firm's data? My case studies show those checks, including the targets I missed.
Today I build AI backend services as an intern at FlyRank AI, and I work as an ICT officer in the public sector. I'm open to remote AI and ML engineering roles.
Focus areas
Fintech
Fraud scoring and anti-money-laundering monitoring, built for mobile-money patterns and Kenyan reporting rules.
Legaltech
Legal research that retrieves Kenyan Acts and judgments, checks its citations and refuses weak answers.
Agritech
Mapping cropland from satellite imagery.
How I work
Evaluate on data the model hasn't seen
Time-ordered splits, held-out questions, and intervals instead of single numbers.
Enforce isolation in the database, not the UI
Row-level security, tested by attacking it from another tenant.
Say what isn't done
Every case study ends with its limits, including the targets it missed.
Ship with tests and security checks
CI runs the evaluation, the secret scan and the accessibility checks on every change.
Experience
to present
Backend AI Engineer (Intern)
FlyRank AI · Internship · Remote
- Building AI backend services: retrieval-augmented generation, structured outputs, tool-calling agents and evaluation, with a focus on grounding, validation and failure handling.
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ICT Officer
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions · Full-time · Kenya
- Support the security, reliability and backup of institutional systems and databases, and train users on them.
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AI & ML Engineer
Independent (freelance and contract work) · Freelance · Remote, Nairobi
- Built the backend of an AML/KYC transaction-monitoring prototype for Kenyan financial institutions: Kafka ingestion, 35 typology rules, a composite risk score and streaming anomaly detection.
- Built ETL pipelines in Python, Airflow and Kedro that prepare high-volume transaction data for modelling.
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Data Scientist
Lish AI Labs · Full-time · Nakuru, Kenya
- Built and validated statistical and machine-learning models in Python and SQL with the risk and product teams for quarterly KPIs, and trained 10+ operators to act on the results through Tableau and Python dashboards.
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IT Technician (Intern)
Bloom Hospital Nakuru · Internship · Nakuru, Kenya
- Supported the rollout of a new hospital management system, trained staff on it, and built a Power BI dashboard of insurance providers.
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Quality Analyst
TELUS International · Contract · Remote
- Reviewed files against guideline documentation and masked personal data in images and documents.
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Intern
Kenya Revenue Authority · Internship · Nakuru, Kenya
- Took part in risk profiling of cases for audit and in tax audits under the department's procedures.
Education and certifications
Bachelor of Business and Information Technology, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)
Data Science, Moringa School
Data Engineering, Sankhyana Consultancy Services
Python Data Wrangling, Great Learning
IBM Data Science Professional Certificate, IBM
Complete A.I. & Machine Learning, Data Science Bootcamp, Zero To Mastery Academy