Five years keeping production systems up, then four building the data that AI products run on. The second half makes more sense once you know about the first.
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AI engineer. I build the data foundation your AI product runs on: collection, cleaning, evaluation, and the operations around them.
Nairobi and the Bay Area. Currently San Jose, California.
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Open Consulting, preferred. The right full-time role, also.
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I started by fine-tuning models and kept hitting the same wall: the model was fine, the data was not. Every interesting problem turned out to be upstream.
Before that I spent five years on the other side of the pager, which is where I learned that the interesting failures are operational, not clever.
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| 3 | technical note, with a DOI |
| 5 | models on Hugging Face |
| 5 | datasets, four generations deep |
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M.S. Computer Science, William Jessup University 2025 to 2026
B.S. Information Technology, University of Kabianga 2018
Certified: Oracle Cloud Generative AI Professional, Oracle APEX Cloud Developer, ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity, MySQL Implementation.
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Running right now
Datasets four generations deep, a model that runs with the network down, and a pipeline whose splits cannot leak.