Senior AI Engineer
A highly accomplished Senior AI Engineer and Machine Learning Architect with 12+ years of experience building and deploying cutting-edge AI/ML systems at leading tech companies and innovative startups. My expertise spans LLMs, computer vision, NLP, and MLOps, consistently solving complex problems and driving impactful results across various industries.
About Me
A little more about my journey
Throughout my career at prominent organizations like Google DeepMind, Meta, Amazon, and Netflix, I have spearheaded the development and deployment of large-scale AI solutions. My work encompasses diverse areas such as generative models for protein folding, real-time object detection, fairness-aware recommendation systems, and anomaly detection. I am passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI and leveraging its transformative power to address global challenges, from climate change to healthcare.
Experience
Senior AI Research Engineer
Google DeepMind • Mar 2022 - Present
Spearheaded the development of AlphaCarbon, a generative protein folding model, and built scalable distributed training infrastructure resulting in a 4x speedup. Also, created knowledge-aware LLMs for scientific question answering.
Staff AI Engineer
Meta (Facebook AI Research) • Oct 2018 - Feb 2022
Architected Meta's RealTimeDet object detection system and reduced model latency by 60% using quantized vision transformers. Co-authored Meta's fairness-aware recommendation engine for 3 billion users.
Senior Applied Scientist
Amazon Web Services (AWS AI Labs) • May 2015 - Sep 2018
Designed and deployed anomaly detection models for AWS Shield and built an AutoML pipeline supporting 500+ enterprise ML workloads. Led the integration of AWS Sagemaker's distributed training with Horovod and EFA.
Machine Learning Engineer II
Netflix • Jul 2013 - Apr 2015
Optimized personalization algorithms for content ranking and dynamic thumbnails, and developed adaptive bit-rate prediction models for 200+ million users.
AI/ML Intern
Apple • Summer 2012
Developed a voice intent classifier for Siri, improving 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 uses satellite imagery and temporal transformers to predict extreme climate events, deployed to African climate agencies for flood warnings.
LLMGuard
Developed a security layer for enterprise LLMs to mitigate prompt injection, hallucination, and data leakage risks, adopted by 20+ enterprise 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 project providing contextual moderation and real-time toxicity filtering for chatbots and generative AI applications, with 10M+ downloads on Hugging Face.
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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