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oluwatimilehin Sikiru

@oluwatimilehinsikiru

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AI engineer and full-stack architect optimizing inference and agentic systems.

Nigeria

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building scalable, production-ready AI systems and agentic workflows, focused on inference optimization, multimodal products, and collaborative, innovation-driven teams.

I am a proactive AI engineer and full-stack architect focused on building agentic workflows, multimodal systems, and scalable applications that solve real-world problems. I specialize in inference optimization, model fine-tuning, and architecting production-ready microservices to support high-throughput AI workloads.

At Applai I architected a vLLM-powered inference engine that reduced latency by 40% and led custom fine-tuning of Mistral models using QLoRA to achieve a 70% cost reduction. I have built RAG pipelines, semantic search endpoints, and AI-driven generation workflows that handle millions of vector embeddings.

I bring hands-on experience across backend and frontend stacks, LLM ops, and multimodal integration, and I am passionate about advancing AGI in robotics and hardware. I seek opportunities to contribute to innovative global projects where I can design scalable AI systems and agentic solutions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Founding AI Engineer

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Applai

Sep 2025 - Present (4 months)

Architected a high-throughput inference engine using vLLM and LLM caching, reducing latency by 40% and led FastAPI microservices powering semantic search over millions of embeddings; fine-tuned Mistral models via QLoRA achieving 70% cost reduction.

VLLM QLoRA fastAPI Vector Search Mistral RunPod

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Co-Founder & Lead Engineer

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Pontly Africa

Jan 2024 - Present (2 years)

Built an end-to-end scholarship discovery engine with Next.js and Python, aggregating opportunities and integrating NLP models to parse CVs and match students to eligible scholarships.

Next.js Python NLP Web Scraping PostgreSQL Matching API Integration

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AI Product Research Intern

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AlphaNext Tech

Oct 2023 - Present (2 years 3 months)

Collected and analyzed competitor data to produce visualizations informing product strategy and collaborated on integrating datasets into an AI-driven competitor analysis chatbot.

Data Analysis Web Scraping Data Visualization Python Product Research

Lead Backend and AI Engineer

BuilderPilot

Jan 2025 - Aug 2025 (7 months)

Led backend development of an AI platform for generating static sites and full-stack apps, building AI-driven generation workflows using LangChain and custom tooling to automate site and app creation.