Manuel Kilonzo

As an Independent Software Developer / ML Practitioner, I build full-stack applications with React, TypeScript, and Python services, and develop database-backed systems and REST APIs.

In my African-language NLP work, I developed Kiswahili intent classification and text categorization workflows using Transformer-based models. I prepared and mapped labeled datasets, fine-tuned and validated models, and evaluated classification quality with micro- and macro-F1 metrics.

I also developed speech-to-text workflows for African-language use cases using fine-tuning and model-adaptation techniques. This work has given me practical experience reviewing language data, maintaining annotation consistency, evaluating outputs, and documenting recurring model errors.

My applied work also includes satellite land-cover classification, spatial hydrology forecasting, and data-monitoring applications. I build and troubleshoot deployments across Vercel, Google Cloud Run, Solana Devnet, and local environments.