Allan Chepkoy
Section Manager, AI Toolkit Section at Rakuten Mobile, Inc.
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Japan
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Top SchoolAllan Chepkoy is an experienced machine learning and software engineering leader with eight years building production AI systems and developer tooling, currently managing the AI Toolkit Section at Rakuten Mobile. Self-taught in ML/Deep Learning and a former curriculum lead at ICodeAI, he blends hands-on model development in computer vision and NLP with designing APIs and platform components that ship at scale. His background spans end-to-end pipelines—from scraping and data aggregation to feature engineering, model serving with Flask/Docker, and AWS deployment—applied in domains from healthcare research to e-commerce. He pairs practical software craftsmanship (Python, React integrations, payment APIs) with mentoring and curriculum design, making him both a technical executor and a developer educator. Based in Nairobi and operating in a global context, he is particularly adept at turning research-grade ML into reliable services used by cross-disciplinary teams.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Goseta Boys High schoolMachine Learning, Machine Learning at SELF-TAUGHT COMPUTER SCIENCE & MATHBachelor's degree, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, Bachelor's degree, PHYSICAL SCIENCES at University of Nairobi
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (13)
fairness-ml5
python5
postgresql5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
data-science4
ml2
computer-vision1
image-recognition1
artificial-intelligence1
ai1
python-requests1
sift1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
icodeai/nbox
Aug 2019 - Sep 2019
ML Toolkit
Contributions:22 commits, 12 PRs, 15 pushes in 24 days
fairness-mldataengineeringpythondata-sciencedeep-learning
allankiplangat/cheatsheet
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:14 PRs, 41 pushes, 8 branches in 9 days
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