Achieng Uwimana

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Senior Engineering Manager at Access Bank · CUDA, model serving

Access Bank
Nairobi, Kenya · EAT (UTC+3)
14+ years experience
University of Lagos
English, Swahili
Open to work
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Overview

Based in Nairobi. I lead ML infrastructure at Access Bank. Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 28% in two quarters. Before that: Equity Bank and Microsoft. Most at home with CUDA and model serving.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in ML infrastructure
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
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  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Crypto token projects
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Best reached early in the week

Skills
Pythonmodel servingKubeflowCUDA
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

ML Engineer roles in fintech - Nairobi or remote

Target roles
ML Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Healthtech, Developer tools
Work mode
Remote
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Kenya
What I'm looking for
A team that ships weekly and owns ML platform end to end.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

14 years in ML infrastructure. Strongest at Python and Kubeflow. Can start in about six weeks.

Nairobi, Kenya · remote OKcudapythonmodel serving
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Nov 2023 - Present
    Access Bank · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 35 minutes to under 3.
    • Reduced cloud spend on ML platform by 39% in two quarters.
  2. ML Engineer
    Oct 2020 - Nov 2023
    Equity Bank · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Ran 288 experiments last year and made the readouts self-serve.
    • Taught SQL to 126 non-analysts.
  3. Senior ML Engineer
    Sep 2017 - Oct 2020
    Microsoft · 3 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Built the experimentation models now used in 8 product decisions a quarter.
    • Replaced 44 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  4. ML Engineer
    Nov 2013 - Sep 2017
    GTBank · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Replaced 74 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.
  5. ML Engineer
    Oct 2012 - Nov 2013
    Twiga Foods · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Nairobi, Kenya
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Replaced 96 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

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Education

  1. University of Lagos
    BSc, Computer Engineering
    2008 - 2012

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