Available for work · Remote

AI/ML
Engineer

~/ Ren Okafor  ·  Building intelligent systems

I design and deploy machine learning systems that solve real problems — from LLM fine-tuning and RAG pipelines to computer vision and production MLOps. I believe in models that work, not just models that impress.

ren@studio ~ profile.py
# About me
engineer = {
  "name": "Ren Okafor",
  "role": "AI/ML Engineer",
  "focus": "LLMs, CV, MLOps",
  "years_xp": 7,
  "open_to": "remote + contract"
}
 
# Currently shipping
train_model(epochs=100)
deploy_to_prod()
7+Years Experience
34Models Deployed
12OSS Contributions
99%Uptime SLA

Featured Projects

Selected Work
👁️
02 / Vision

StreetSense CV Pipeline

Real-time pedestrian and vehicle detection pipeline for smart city infrastructure. Runs at 48fps on edge hardware using custom YOLOv8 + TensorRT optimization.

YOLOv8 TensorRT ONNX
GitHub →
📊
03 / MLOps

ModelVault — ML Experiment Tracker

Open-source MLflow alternative with built-in drift detection, cost tracking, and Slack alerting. Used by 2k+ engineers across 180 orgs.

Python PostgreSQL Docker
GitHub →
💬
04 / NLP

SentimentCore API

Production-grade multilingual sentiment analysis API serving 2M+ requests/day. Fine-tuned XLM-RoBERTa on 18 languages with P99 latency under 80ms.

Transformers Kubernetes GCP
Live Demo →
🔬
05 / Research

LoRA-Lite: Efficient Fine-Tuning

Published technique reducing LoRA memory footprint by 40% for resource-constrained environments. 380 GitHub stars, cited in 3 academic papers.

HuggingFace PEFT CUDA
Read Paper →

Technical Skills

Stack
// ML & AI
PyTorch / JAX96%
LLM Fine-Tuning94%
RAG Pipelines92%
Computer Vision88%
// Infrastructure
Python98%
Docker / K8s90%
AWS / GCP87%
MLflow / W&B93%

Experience

Career
DeepMind (Google)
London, UK
Senior ML Engineer on the Gemini fine-tuning team. Led a 4-person squad responsible for instruction-tuning pipelines, RLHF data curation, and safety evaluation benchmarks.
2022 – 2024
Cohere
Remote
ML Engineer focused on enterprise RAG deployments. Designed retrieval architecture for Fortune 500 clients, reducing hallucination rates by an average of 55%.
2020 – 2022
Andela
Lagos, Nigeria
Data Scientist building recommendation systems and NLP tools for edtech clients across Sub-Saharan Africa. First role out of university.
2018 – 2020
// Open to Opportunities

Let's build something intelligent

Available for full-time roles, contract projects, and research collaborations. I'm especially interested in applied LLM work and ML systems at scale.