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Funbi Onaeko

@funbionaeko

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AI Engineer building LLM, RAG, and voice systems for real-world impact.

Nigeria

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to build production-ready AI products—LLM, RAG, and voice systems—with end-to-end ownership, focused on social impact and financial inclusion, in a fast, collaborative team.

I’m an AI Engineer and Full Stack Developer with 3+ years of experience shipping production-ready applications that integrate Large Language Models (LLMs), voice recognition, and machine learning pipelines. I’ve built AI-powered products reaching 1000+ users, including conversational assistants, RAG systems, and recommendation engines.

I founded and scaled UniOrdering to 1,016+ active users across 3 Nigerian universities, architecting an AI recommendation engine that increased average order value by 25%. I also integrated an LLM-powered chatbot (Llama 3.3 70B) that reduced checkout time by 40%, while managing end-to-end delivery with 95%+ order fulfillment.

I lead AI/ML efforts at EchoPay for a voice-driven banking assistant for 52M+ underserved Nigerians, building an end-to-end pipeline with Whisper → LLaMA 3.1 → GPT-4 → ElevenLabs. I’m especially focused on reliability and safety, including 90%+ voice biometric authentication and an anti-deepfake system using spectrogram and micro-variation detection.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Technical Lead

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AI SMS/USSD Chatbot Platform

Apr 2025 - Present (1 year 2 months)

Led development of an AI chatbot accessible via SMS/USSD for low-connectivity Nigerian communities. Implemented an NLP query processor with session management for offline-style usage and designed a credit-based monetization model for telco partnerships.

SMS USSD Chatbots Session Management Credit Based Billing Logic API Integration

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Founder & CEO

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UniOrdering

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years 5 months)

Founded and scaled an AI-powered multi-vendor delivery platform to 1,016+ active users across 3 Nigerian universities. Architected an AI recommendation engine (+25% average order value), built an LLM chatbot that reduced checkout time by 40%, and maintained 95%+ order fulfillment.

Natural Language Ordering AWS Azure Paystack WhatsApp Business API order fulfillment

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Machine Learning Intern

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Robotics Artificial Intelligence Nigeria

Jun 2022 - Present (4 years)

Developed a client-churn prediction model in Python using scikit-learn and XGBoost, achieving 87% accuracy. Built data preprocessing and feature engineering pipelines and ranked 5th out of 1,000+ participants in a Zindi ML competition.

Python scikit learn XGBoost Churn Modeling Feature Engineering data preprocessing Model Training Model Evaluation

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EchoPay

Nov 2025 - Present (7 months)

Led AI/ML integration for a voice-driven banking assistant for 52M+ underserved Nigerians. Built a full voice pipeline (Whisper → LLaMA intent → GPT-4 reasoning → ElevenLabs TTS), implemented voice-embedding biometric auth (90%+ accuracy), and developed anti-deepfake detection using spectrogram analysis.

Whisper LLaMA ElevenLabs (TTS)Speechbrain ECAPA TDNN Deepfake Detection Prompt Engineering