Bello User
@bellouser1
I build multilingual speech AI, LLMs, and production ML systems for African languages.
What I'm looking for
At Awarri, I build Nigerian-language AI products across ASR, text-to-speech, and N-ATLAS, a large language model trained and fine-tuned on over 1 billion tokens spanning English, Pidgin, Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba.
I design the full ML lifecycle: multilingual data collection and annotation, quality assurance, human evaluation, distributed training, and low-latency inference APIs. I’ve built annotation platforms with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and Streamlit, and training pipelines with DeepSpeed, Hugging Face Accelerate, LoRA, and RLHF.
I co-founded OrbitalsAI, where I led development of multilingual Conformer-Transducer ASR systems and production speech infrastructure for transcription, subtitles, translation, diarization, and real-time audio intelligence.
Earlier at Intelia and Uniccon Group, I delivered WhatsApp ordering bots, retrieval-augmented assistants, audio intelligence workflows, translation systems, Nigerian-language TTS, conversational models, and sentiment analysis. I enjoy turning research into practical, deployable systems for low-resource African languages.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Lead AI Engineer
Awarri
Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 7 months)
Working on speech and language AI systems for Nigerian languages, including ASR and TTS. Built and optimized N-ATLAS, a Nigerian large language model trained on over 1 billion tokens.
Co-Founder & Lead Machine Learning Engineer
OrbitalsAI
Jan 2023 - Dec 2024 (1 year 11 months)
Co-founded OrbitalsAI to build speech and voice AI infrastructure for African languages. Led end-to-end ML development including dataset design, training, deployment, and product integration.
Lead Machine Learning & NLP Engineer
Intelia
Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 11 months)
Developed a WhatsApp order bot using ChatGPT and built real-time audio intelligence workflows with Whisper. Spearheaded conversational QA systems using GPT-3.5 Turbo and LangChain.
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Uniccon Group
Jan 2021 - Dec 2023 (2 years 11 months)
Led ML work for Nigerian-language AI systems and the Omeife humanoid robot ecosystem. Fine-tuned multilingual T5 translation systems and built audio summarization and subtitle generation pipelines.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Ahmadu Bello University
Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
2017 - 2022
Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering with relevant coursework in statistics, linear algebra, optimization, calculus, control systems, computational neuroscience, machine learning, and deep learning.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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Website
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