Experience

My professional journey in AI, Data Engineering, and Software Development

Work Experience

Monty Dimkpa Services

Principal Consultant
Oct 2025 - Present Lagos, Nigeria
  • Leading AI, Data & SaaS consulting practice
  • Delivering enterprise solutions for global clients
  • Building intelligent systems that drive business growth
Oct 2025

Melita

AI Developer
Feb 2026 - Jul 2026 Remote (Malta)
  • Built and maintained AI chatbots for sales/billing and technical support
  • Developed customer service automation for improved engagement
  • Created powerful analysis and testing tools leveraging AI
Feb 2026

Turing

AI/ML Model Trainer
Dec 2025 - Mar 2026 Remote (USA)
  • Helping AI frontier labs improve models
  • Deploying agentic systems for Enterprise
  • Contributing to AI alignment and capability research
Dec 2025

Payflow (YC)

Senior AI Engineer
Apr 2025 - Oct 2025 Remote
  • Built Luca: an AI FP&A Agent for financial insights, detailed reporting, planning and forecasting
Apr 2025

Metro Africa Xpress (MAX)

Engineering Manager, Data Platform
Feb 2024 - May 2025 Remote
  • Led data platform engineering team
  • Architected scalable data infrastructure for logistics operations
  • Implemented real-time IoT analytics (fleet telematics) and ML data pipelines to understand rider behaviour, enable fleet asset management, and optimise operational cost and revenue
Feb 2024

Taringa! (IOV Labs)

Data Architect
Apr 2022 - Oct 2023 Remote
  • Designed data architecture for social platform serving 15M daily active users
  • Built recommender systems and data pipelines
Apr 2022

Kippa

Solutions Architect & Principal Engineer
Aug 2021 - Apr 2023 Remote
  • First Data employee at Kippa; built initial Data Platform and managed Data team
  • Built key data pipelines and operational data models for credit scoring and default risk
  • Built a lending pilot and Kippa's business registration product
Aug 2021

Andela

Principal Engineer
Oct 2020 - Apr 2023 Remote
  • Wynden Stark (GQR Global Markets): Software Engineer on Nebula.io, an AI-powered recruitment platform - implemented caching layer for Search scalability and internal contacts management service
  • BrightHire Inc: Data Scientist (NLP) - built evaluation framework for internal NLP models
  • IZEA Inc: Data Engineer on influencer marketing platform processing millions of search requests daily and managing over a billion pieces of content; contributed to BrandGraph for brand tracking and social media performance analytics
Oct 2020

Ernst & Young (EY)

Senior, Advisory (Data & Analytics)
Nov 2019 - Apr 2021 Lagos, Nigeria
  • Led data analytics consulting engagements
  • Delivered insights and solutions for enterprise clients
  • Built data-driven transformation strategies
Nov 2019

KPMG Nigeria

Data Team Lead
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019 Lagos, Nigeria
  • Led data analytics team on client engagements
  • Implemented data solutions for audit and advisory
  • Developed analytics capabilities and methodologies
Mar 2019

Education

Obafemi Awolowo University

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering

2013 · Nigeria

Skills & Technologies

Programming & Development

Python JavaScript TypeScript Node.js React Next.js Express.js Django FastAPI HTML5 CSS3

AI/ML Technologies

TensorFlow PyTorch Scikit-learn LangChain OpenAI Anthropic NLP Computer Vision LLMs RAG Fine-tuning Neural Networks

Data & Databases

SQL PostgreSQL MongoDB Firebase Redis Elasticsearch Apache Spark Hadoop Kafka Data Architecture ETL/ELT

Cloud & DevOps

AWS Google Cloud Azure Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Pipelines Linux/Unix Git GitHub

Backend & Architecture

RESTful APIs Microservices System Design API Development Data Pipelines Real-time Analytics

Leadership & Methodology

Technical Leadership Team Management Mentorship Agile/Scrum Project Management

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