Who I Am - In a Nutshell

Data Scientist | Statisticial | Writer

Downloadable CV

My current curriculum vitae can be downloaded or viewed from here.

Key Skills

The following lists highlight some of my skills in Data Science.

Machine Learning & AI:

Predictive Modeling, Data analytics, Time Series Forecasting, Risk Modeling, Clustering, A/B Testing, Model Explainability (SHAP, feature importance)

Programming & Tools

Python (primary), SQL, Bash, Git, Excel/Google Sheets

Cloud Computing and DevOps

AWS (S3, EC2, Lambda, SageMaker, Redshift, ECR, e.t.c), Docker, Airflow

Databases:

PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redshift

Visualization & BI:

Tableau, Looker and LookML, Matplotlib, Seaborn

Libraries & Frameworks:

pandas, NumPy, SKLearn, LightGBM, XGBoost, PyTorch

Work History

Sunking
SunKing Limited

Data Scientist,

A brief: Building and deploying models at scale using Python, SQL, and AWS to drive the efficiency in sales of solar products on loan and consequent repayment of loans. My team works on both Machine Learning and Deep Learning.
Nairobi, Kenya
Jan 2023 -
KMD
Kenya Meteorological Deparment (KMD)

Data Science Intern,

A brief: Working on techniques to improve weather forecasting. Techniques implemented include machine learning, testing new parameterization schemes and optimization of data assimilation procedures.
Nairobi, Kenya
Apr - Oct, 2022
Science of Intelligence
Science of Intelligence

Reseach Fellow,

A brief: Worked on a computer vision project at Technische Universität Berlin.
Berlin, Germany
Feb-Aug 2021
CIHEb Kenya
PACT-Timiza

Data Assistant,

A brief: Data entry, management and analysis role involving HIV patients information aimed to improve adherence to anti-retroviral drugs.
Migori, Kenya
2013-2017

Education

Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch University
  • Certificate: Master's Degree in Applied Mathematics (Data Science)
  • Supervisor: Dr. Bubacarr Bah
  • Full scholarship by African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, (AIMS)
Cape Town, South Africa
2020-2022
Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch University
  • Certificate: Master's Degree in Mathematical Sciences, Cum Laude
  • Supervisor: Dr. Bubacarr Bah
  • Full scholarship by African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, (AIMS)
Cape Town, South Africa
2019-2020
JKUAT
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
  • Certificate: Bachelors Degree in Science (Statistics), First Class Honors
Nairobi, Kenya
2013-2017

Award and Honors

  • Nominated Inspiring Leader - for leading my team into developing novel ideas for running experiments

    (February 2025)

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  • Dedicated service award, for sterling performance at Sun King

    (November 2023)

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  • Golden Key Award, for being among the top 15% academic performers among the 2019 cohort

    (2020-2022)

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  • African Institute for Mathematical Sciences(AIMS) Scholarship, for MSc Mathematics at S.U

    (2019-2010)&(2020-2021)

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  • Award for Excellence, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences(AIMS)

    (Jan 2019- Nov 2019)

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  • Vice-Chancellor’s Academic Award, the best student in Bachelor of Science (Statistics option)

    (2014/2015, 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 academic years)

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  • First place, Mathematics contest with 1954 contestants

    (2012)

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Now

I am currently:

  • Working as a Data Scientist at Sun King Limited,
  • Reading the book “The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield.
  • Up-skilling - currently working on AWS Machine Learning Specialization
  • Writing Data Science articles on Medium , Towards Data Science and Posts section of this site.
  • Mentoring two Data Analysts.