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Hyacinth Ampadu

@hyacinthampadu

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AI/Machine Learning Engineer and backend developer delivering scalable AI systems and production-grade backends.

Ghana

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles where I can build production-grade AI/ML systems, lead backend and MLOps efforts, work with LLMs, and drive measurable business impact in collaborative teams.

I am an AI/Machine Learning Engineer and backend developer with 6+ years of experience delivering AI/ML solutions and building scalable backend systems across fintech, SaaS, and generative AI platforms.

I architect end-to-end AI solutions, design secure high-performance Python backends (FastAPI/Flask), and deploy models and services on cloud platforms like GCP and AWS with CI/CD, containerization, and monitoring.

I have built and deployed LLM and LMM pipelines (RAG, LangChain, Hugging Face), integrated vector databases and semantic search (Pinecone, Qdrant), and implemented robust evaluation, human-in-the-loop validation, and safety guardrails for production reliability.

Across consulting, startups, and research projects I have improved time-to-insight, automated workflows, and driven measurable outcomes—reducing research time, increasing engagement, and delivering production-ready AI systems.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Founder / Backend Engineer

AkwaCash

Jan 2025 - Aug 2025 (7 months)

Architected and built a scalable FastAPI backend for a mobile-money subscription fintech, implemented MongoDB schemas, JWT/RBAC auth, asynchronous payment integrations with retry logic, and automated CI/CD on GCP to support high-throughput transactions.

fastAPI Python MongoDB JWT GCP)CI CD Payment Integration GCP

Founder / AI Consultant

JoAmpsConsult

Jul 2024 - Aug 2025 (1 year 1 month)

Founded a consultancy delivering generative AI and end-to-end AI solutions, including autonomous AI agents for investment analysis (75% reduction in manual research) and a WhatsApp AI assistant that resolved 80% of customer queries and cut response times by 90%.

Generative AI LLMs Deployment RAG Chatbot Development AI Strategy Évaluation)LLM

AI Engineer and Backend Developer

NextGenMaterials

Jan 2025 - Jun 2025 (5 months)

Designed and deployed a domain-optimized RAG LLM pipeline that reduced lithium brine analysis time from days to hours, built scalable AWS backend services with Docker, and implemented PostgreSQL + Pinecone hybrid data management and evaluation guardrails.

LLM RAG PostgreSQL Pinecone AWS Docker Model Evaluation

Generative AI Engineer

EstiloAI

May 2024 - Dec 2024 (7 months)

Architected multimodal LLM pipelines and a web/WhatsApp shopping assistant using LangChain, Qdrant and Gemini, integrated a 2D avatar engine for virtual try-ons, and deployed a scalable AWS backend to pilot with multiple fashion brands.

Lang Chain Qdrant Gemini AWS Webhooks API Design Semantic Search

AI / Machine Learning Engineer

Webicient

May 2023 - Jul 2024 (1 year 2 months)

Delivered Besti, an enterprise LLM chatbot platform, building FastAPI backends, LangChain/LangGraph + Pinecone integrations, real-time streaming, data ingestion pipelines, BigQuery analytics and Looker dashboards to reduce reporting lag and enable reliable AI knowledge workflows.

fastAPI Lang Chain Pinecone BigQuery Docker GCP)ETL Monitoring GCP

AI / ML Consultant (Selected Projects)

Independent Projects

Jan 2019 - Apr 2023 (4 years 3 months)

Executed multiple ML projects including political tweet engagement (+25% engagement), rail temperature forecasting (±1°C at 48h), NFT trade prediction (10% ROI), and COVID-19 mortality prediction published in PeerJ Comp Sci.

PyTorch XGBoost NLP Spark Airflow AWS

Graduate Assistant

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Sep 2019 - Jun 2020 (9 months)

Mentored undergraduate students in data science and machine learning research projects, providing technical guidance that supported successful project completion and degree attainment.

Mentoring Research Data Science Machine Learning Python Teaching Project supervision

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Master of Philosophy, Electrical/Computer Engineering

2022 - 2023

Activities and societies: Graduate Assistant mentoring undergraduate research in data science and machine learning.

Completed an MPhil in Electrical/Computer Engineering with research and teaching assistance responsibilities focused on data science and machine learning applications.