Technologist and engineering manager. I build the AI/ML layer of production lending platforms for African markets — credit scoring, LLM-powered qualitative analysis, fraud detection on AI-generated KYC documents, AML transaction monitoring.

10+ years shipping production systems across financial platforms in Africa. Led 9 engineers on a national-scale biometric identity platform that processed 10M+ activations in 6 months. Architected a multi-modal biometric platform (face, fingerprint, iris) for a tier-1 East African bank. Spent 4+ years building banking-transaction systems deployed across 21 African countries.

• ML credit scoring — bank-statement feature extraction → trained model → calibrated risk scores over REST. LLM layer reasons about borrower context where numbers fall short.
• KYC document fraud detection — classifies submitted IDs as genuine vs. AI-generated via stamp detection, document structure, visual artifacts, metadata consistency.
• AML transaction monitoring — velocity, structuring, and counterparty-pattern anomaly detection on event-driven pipelines.
• Biometric identity — face, fingerprint, and contactless fingerprint acquisition with multi-provider matching and government-database verification.

• mudler/LocalAI#9411 — fix(backend-monitor): accept model as a query parameter so the endpoint is Swagger/OpenAPI-compatible. Merged.

• AthenaIntelligentLMS — intelligent lending platform: 11 Spring Boot services, React UI, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL.
• AthenaCreditScore — AI credit-scoring platform for African SMEs: LightGBM + rule scorecard + LLM overlay (TransUnion + Metropol CRBs).
• spring-monitoring-demo — Spring Boot + Prometheus/Grafana observability reference.

Python · Java · Go · PostgreSQL · Redis · Kafka · RabbitMQ · GCP · OCI · Kubernetes · Terraform

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