Hi,

I'm Adebayo Awofuye

AI practitioner, educator, hacker. Passionate about the confluence of deep-tech solutions ushering in the post-scarcity era of technological democracy

Projects

Professional

Blueberry AI Tutor

An exam preparatory platform that helps learners ace their O-level examinations (WAEC, NECO and JAMB) through on-demand personalised practices and improvement analytics.

  • Product Manager

Tap Academy

Designed contents, scripts, Programming assignments and Assessments for the python programming language course.

  • Lead Curriculum Architect

Steamledge Pythoneers Challenge

6-month programming bootcamp on software engineering in Python, Version Control (Git/Github), Collaboration and CI/CD

  • Program Manager

Jollof Rise @ Steamledge Limited & Verdant

Project to send and successfully retrieve Jollof Rise payload on a high-altitude balloon into the upper atmosphere

  • Project Manager/Engineer

Personal

Chess AI Platform
Scene Motion Detection & Segmentation
Simple Motion Detection
Quadcopter Design & Implemention

Podcasts & Webinars

AI and Digital Transformation Podcast

Closing the Education Gap in Nigeria using AI Personalized Tutoring

The Expand AI Podcast

Democratizing AI: The Movement in Nigeria

STEAMLEDGE Career & Technology Series 2.0

A.I: Hype or Hope

Resume

Co-Founder & CEO

January 2022 - Present

Gamma Prime Limited

  • Spearheaded brainstorming sessions and research into potential viable AI-enabled business models during ideation stage
  • Led early Proof-of-concept pivot from a decentralised start-up model to a centralised model due to technical constraints and feedback from Secondary and Primary market research
  • Built Proof of concept prototype from refined BMC

Head of Research, Development and Innovation

Feb 2020 - Oct 2020

Steamledge Limited, Kano, Nigeria

    Remotely coached and mentored 70+ candidates on python, version control, software engineering principles of which 12 were given full-time positions at the Research, Development & Innovation department.

Research and Innovation Manager

Oct 2020 - Present

Steamledge Limited, Kano, Nigeria

  • Led deployment of invested capital in architecting and building the Blueberry AI tutor platform – An O-level exam prep tool using NLP and CV to offer on-demand personalized support for exam preparation
  • Deployed CI/CD using GitHub workflow and CircleCI for Blueberry AI tutor DevOps and MLOps.
  • Managed a team of over a dozen individuals as project manager, including software engineers, content creators and animation designers using agile scrum.
  • Led api/web-scrapping data collection, processing, annotation and quality assurance that laid ground-work for a subsequent Edtech software solution.

Tools & Languages

  • Python
  • C
  • C++
  • PostgreSQL

  • Unix and Linux
  • Project Management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Curriculum Architect

  • Git/GitHub
  • Mentorship/Teaching
  • Data/ML (Pytorch, TensorFlow, Keras, scipy)

Certifications

Sequence Model

Convolutional Neural Networks

Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

AWS Fundamental course in the AWS Machine Learning Scholarship

Education

BSc Electrical Engineering

2017

Bayero University, Kano. Nigeria

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Jun 2022 - August 2023

Quantic School of Business & Technology