Ahmedrufai Otuoze
@ahmedrufaiotuoze
Senior Data & AI Engineer building scalable data architectures and fine-tuned LLM solutions.
What I'm looking for
I am a Senior Data & AI Engineer with deep experience building scalable data pipelines, cloud data platforms, and LLM-driven solutions for enterprise clients across energy, finance, and SaaS sectors.
My career spans roles from Python & Data Engineer to Lead and Senior Data Engineer, delivering cloud migrations, real-time analytics, and predictive maintenance models that cut downtime and improve operational efficiency.
I have strong hands-on expertise across Azure and AWS ecosystems (Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Glue, Redshift), Spark, Snowflake, Airflow, Kafka, and production ML workflows including fine-tuning foundation models and prompt engineering.
I focus on clean data, robust architecture, automation with CI/CD, and practical LLM/agentic workflows to streamline business processes and unlock measurable value.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Data Engineer
Bluechip Technologies
Feb 2024 - Present (1 year 8 months)
Led design and implementation of Azure-based data architecture for NLNG Supply Chain Digitalization, building real-time ingestion and processing pipelines and reducing release cycles from weeks to days via CI/CD automation.
LLM Engineer – Python
Toloka.ai
Jan 2024 - Aug 2024 (7 months)
Curated and annotated large Python and JSON datasets for LLM training, developed annotation schemas and automated analysis tooling, and applied PEFT techniques (LoRA/QLoRA) to fine-tune models for code tasks.
LLM Contributor
Unify.ai
Sep 2023 - Mar 2024 (6 months)
Developed prompt templates, integrated new language models into the Unify API, and conducted model evaluations and benchmarking to improve LLM Router performance and user guidance.
IT Systems Analyst
Engineers Without Borders Rotterdam
Aug 2023 - Feb 2024 (6 months)
Supported web platform analytics and reporting across projects in Uganda, Mozambique, and Ghana using PowerBI and SEO improvements to optimize user experience and campaign performance.
Senior Data & Analytics Engineer
Dover Engineering
Apr 2021 - Dec 2023 (2 years 8 months)
Delivered cloud ETL, real-time analytics, and ML-driven predictive maintenance for NLNG, migrating warehouses to Azure and reducing unplanned downtime by 35% while improving reporting performance and operational efficiency by ~30%.
Technical Mentor Python
SheCodeAfrica
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021 (4 months)
Mentored 13 students in Python fundamentals, data wrangling with Pandas and Statmodels, and introductory machine learning with Scikit-learn to build foundational data analytics skills.
Senior Data Engineer
iBridgeTech
Jun 2020 - May 2021 (11 months)
Optimized ETL with Airflow and Spark to process multi-terabyte financial datasets, built Snowflake/Redshift models and real-time analytics using Kafka/Druid, reducing latency 30% and lowering cloud costs by 20%.
Lead Data Engineer
Utility Ware
Oct 2019 - Jul 2020 (9 months)
Led design and deployment of Snowflake-based ELT pipelines and analytics dashboards, implemented Airflow automation and DBT transformations, reducing pipeline latency 30% and improving customer retention by 15%.
Python Data Engineer
Cordial Exchange
Apr 2017 - Oct 2019 (2 years 6 months)
Built scalable data ingestion and processing systems using PySpark, Kafka, AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3), Snowflake/Redshift, and containerized services, processing large-scale IoT and transactional datasets and improving data pipeline reliability.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Ilorin
Bachelor of Engineering, Design and Production Engineering
Bachelor-level studies in Design and Production Engineering completed in 2019.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Amazon Redshift
Azure Synapse
AWS Glue
Druid
Amazon Quicksight
GitHub
Kubernetes
Jenkins
Pandas
PySpark
dbt
DB
PostgreSQL
Gmail
Django
Databricks
OpenCV
Terraform
Azure DevOps
Jira
Vue.js
JSON
Azure Machine Learning
PyTorch
scikit-learn
Kafka
FastAPI
Amazon Kinesis
AWS Lambda
Serverless
Azure Functions
KSQL
pytest
Airflow
Time Analytics
Amazon Athena
SQL
LangChain
HTMX
Port
Availability
Location
Authorized to work in
Job categories
Skills
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