Allen Akin is a co-founder and seasoned AI practitioner with 11 years’ experience building machine learning and software solutions for financial and regulatory use cases. He leads InfraRed, an AML platform that blends identity verification, screening, transaction monitoring and regulatory reporting to help compliance teams scale without adding headcount. Previously at Zopa he built AI agents for customer-facing and automation use cases, and at EY he managed teams delivering NLP-rich data products for tax and legal professionals, including LLM fine-tuning and entity/relation extraction pipelines. Allen combines hands-on data science (Python, Scikit-Learn, NLP) with engineering discipline—containerising services and shipping production-grade tools used across enterprises. He holds an MSc in Data Science from Lancaster and a background in software engineering, which informs his product-first approach to applied AI. A pragmatic builder, he’s known for turning complex regulatory requirements into efficient, auditable systems that reduce costs and speed decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering, Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering Computer Software Engineering at APTECH Computer Education, Nigeria
Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology & Business Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology & Business Information Systems at Middlesex University
Master’s Degree Data Science, Master’s Degree Data Science at Lancaster University
Animation library for explanatory mathematics in the browser
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