# daniel Elias

daniel Elias is a remote worker on Himalayas, AI Engineering Intern - KapitalGPT at Smart Engineering Groups, based in Nigeria.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@danielelias2

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AI and machine learning engineer at Dala Innovations, building a bilingual RAG pipeline and fine-tuning geospatial models for flood mapping.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Nigeria |
| Authorized to work in | Nigeria |
| Salary expectations | 30k+ USD |
| Job categories | AI Engineer, Data Engineer, Geospatial Data Scientist |
| Skills | Machine Learning, AI, Generative AI, RAG, Geospatial AI, Remote Sensing, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Geospatial Foundation Models, SAR Flood Mapping, Satellite Data Processing, Agentic Workflows, Vector Databases, Semantic Search, Model Fine Tuning |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/inalegwu- |
| GitHub | https://github.com/inalegwu-daniel |

## About

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At Dala Innovations, I built an end-to-end RAG pipeline that processes bilingual corpus data for semantic search, and fine-tuned text-to-text transformer models. I also designed automated web-scraping pipelines with validation and quality-control checks.

I'm currently fine-tuning the Prithvi geospatial foundation model on Sentinel-1 SAR imagery to map floods in Nigeria. My independent project uses TerraTorch and TorchGeo, with a domain-adaptation pipeline targeting Nigeria-specific ground truth.

At National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), I supported satellite imagery analysis and contributed to training and evaluating ML models on environmental datasets. I also developed and delivered GIS and remote-sensing training for Nigerian federal agency personnel.

On the “Remember” team product, I contributed to a multi-modal content pipeline and helped develop evidence-based safeguards for generated responses. I also built and deployed “Aria,” a Discord RAG bot on Google Cloud Platform, and co-authored a report on the AI agent ecosystem.
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## Experience

### AI Engineering Intern - KapitalGPT (current)

Smart Engineering Groups. Oct 2025 - Present

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Translated ML architectures and AI video agent research into pitch decks and marketing materials for non-technical stakeholders, including investors.
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Skills: AI, Machine-Learning, Technical-Communication, Pitch-Decks

### Machine Learning Engineering Intern (current)

Dala Innovations. Aug 2025 - Present

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Architected an end-to-end RAG pipeline using Python and LangChain to clean and load bilingual corpus data into ChromaDB for semantic search. Fine-tuned text-to-text transformer models and designed automated web scraping pipelines with validation and quality-control checks.
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Skills: Python, Lang-Chain, ChromaDB, RAG, NLP, Web-Scraping, Data-Quality

### AI Engineering Intern - PM Accelerator AI Bootcamp

PM Accelerator AI Bootcamp. Apr 2026 - Jun 2026

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Contributed to a multi-stage, multi-modal content pipeline for a team product, building type-specific extraction handlers and co-developing pre-LLM content-quality gates. Built and deployed a production Discord RAG bot on Google Cloud Platform and developed a Linear Regression time-series model for weather trend forecasting.
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Skills: Python, PyMuPDF, Python-Docx, AssemblyAI, OpenAI-GPT-4o, Faiss, Supabase, Google-Cloud-Platform, S3, ChromaDB, GROQ, Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn

### Machine Learning Geospatial Intern

National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA). May 2023 - Nov 2023

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Conducted satellite imagery and multi-temporal analysis using ArcGIS, QGIS, SNAP, and Google Earth Engine. Contributed to training and evaluation of ML models on multi-temporal environmental datasets and delivered GIS and remote sensing training to federal agency personnel.
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Skills: ArcGIS, QGIS, SNAP, Google-Earth-Engine, Machine-Learning, Remote-Sensing, GIS-Training

## Education

### Ahmadu Bello University

B.Eng., Water Resources & Environmental Engineering. Grade: 3.99/5.00

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Graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering, achieving a GPA of 3.99/5.00 (Second Class Upper Division, Honors).
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## Tech stack

- Google Cloud Platform
- Google Compute Engine
- GitHub
- NumPy
- Pandas
- PostgreSQL
- JavaScript
- Python
- HTML5
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- scikit-learn
- Keras
- SpaCy
- AssemblyAI
- Git
- Docker
- Render
- SQL
- UptimeRobot
- Podman
- Supabase
- LangChain
- ChromaDB
- Faiss
- Roboflow
- Sentence Transformers
- Seaborn
- QGIS
- Matplotlib
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

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