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Ahmedrufai Otuoze

@ahmedrufaiotuoze

Senior Data & AI Engineer building scalable data architectures and fine-tuned LLM solutions.

Nigeria
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What I'm looking for

I seek senior roles building scalable cloud data platforms and LLM-enabled solutions, with cross-functional teams, strong automation/CI-CD, and measurable business impact.

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

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Current

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.

TO

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.

ER

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.

DE

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%.

SH

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.

UW

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%.

CE

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 logoUI

University of Ilorin

Bachelor of Engineering, Design and Production Engineering

Bachelor-level studies in Design and Production Engineering completed in 2019.

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