A data scientist who takes pride in building models that translate data points into business insights.
I have an excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms, such as k-NN, Naive Bayes, SVM and Decision Forests.
I posses outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.
I have proficiency in writing robust code in Python and R. Good understanding of data structures, data modelling and software architecture. I also have expertise in visualizing and manipulating big datasets.
Precision Agriculture App
Project completion rate
Years of exprience
Oct 2018 to present
Data scientist
Nairobi,Kenya
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Associate Data Learning
Nairobi,Kenya
Oct 2016 - Oct 2018
Graduate Trainee
Nairobi,Kenya
Jan 2011 to Dec 2015
B.sc Actuarial Science
Meru, Kenya
Jan 2006 to Dec 2009
Makueni, Kenya
A brief summary of exciting and impact making projects I have worked on and deployed
Created a precision agriculture engine in R, extended it out as API using OpenCPU. The API is intergrated to chatbot being used by cassava farmers in Nigeria and Tanzania
Using of NLP skills to clean text from users of text based platform. Levaraging on Textgain API, to predict there age and gender. The whole pipeline is scripted using python.
Developing KPIs and building interactive dashboard to map them. The dashboards are created using Python's Dash framework and R's shiny framework.