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samson ajah

@samsonajah

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Machine learning and blockchain engineer blending data science expertise with Web3 product leadership.

Nigeria

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What I'm looking for

I seek a role combining ML engineering and Web3 protocol/product development with ownership of technical design, community engagement, and career growth.

I am a machine learning and blockchain engineer who builds production-ready systems and leads technical communities. I graduated with a B.Sc. in Mathematics and consistently ranked in the top 1% of my class.

I've founded and deployed the Crypto Inheritance Protocol to enable secure programmable transfer of digital assets and designed protocol modules for inheritance, payments, and tokenization. I organized a campus hackathon that onboarded 500+ students and grew active developer communities across multiple platforms.

As Head of Operations at a Web3 startup based in France, I supervised rollouts of AI-powered blockchain products, drafted data management and privacy frameworks for decentralized AI/crypto systems, and directed user testing and feedback loops. I have hands-on ML engineering experience building image-analysis pipelines and training detection models.

I contribute to open-source and community education—mentoring students, delivering tutorials on Python and machine learning, and publishing research-driven analysis. I seek roles where I can combine ML engineering, protocol design, and community-driven product development.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Founder & Lead Researcher

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Crypto Inheritance Protocol

May 2025 - Present (1 year 1 month)

Built and deployed the live Crypto Inheritance Protocol enabling secure, programmable transfer of digital assets and authored research proposals for future protocol modules; organized a campus hackathon onboarding 500+ students and grew a developer community.

Blockchain Smart Contracts Community Building Research Tokenization Grants Public Speaking

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Head of Operations

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Trust AI

Jun 2023 - Present (3 years)

Supervised rollout of AI-powered blockchain products, led protocol testing and user research, and drafted data management and privacy frameworks for decentralized AI/crypto systems.

Product Operations User Research Data Privacy Blockchain Smart Contracts Testing Roadmapping Stakeholder Management

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Data Scientist (Intern)

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Monatech Nigeria Limited

Feb 2022 - Present (4 years 4 months)

Performed marketing data analysis and visualizations to identify top-performing heavy-duty equipment and reported insights to the team lead to inform decisions.

Data Analysis Data Visualization SQL Python Reporting Data Cleaning

Contributor

Resolving Python

Jun 2022 - Feb 2023 (8 months)

Contributed to community education by answering Python and machine learning questions, preparing tutorial materials, and supporting onboarding of platform members.

Python Machine Learning Teaching Technical Writing Community Support Presentation Debugging

Machine Learning Engineer

Meuve Inc

Jun 2022 - Nov 2022 (5 months)

Built image collection and preprocessing pipelines for workout detection models by automating screenshot capture and storage, and collaborated on model development for activity recognition.

Python Image Processing Machine Learning Model Training Data Annotation OpenCV

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Federal University Otuoke

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics

2017 - 2023

Activities and societies: Community Manager of Sammy Crypto Hub; Lead Tutor for undergraduate mathematics; Admin of FSTS Crypto Group and Crypto Millionaire Hub.

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, graduating in the top 1% of the class.