Bethany Jepchumba
Cloud Advocate
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolBethany Jepchumba is a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft with seven years of experience blending design, coding, and community leadership to help students, developers, and entrepreneurs adopt AI and cloud technologies. She creates practical learning content—articles, workshops, and talks—and contributes hands-on to notable open-source projects like Microsoft's "generative-ai-for-beginners," where she adapted Jupyter notebooks to integrate Azure OpenAI features such as summarization, classification, and embeddings. With a background in program coordination at Andela and as a Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador, she excels at skilling communities and turning complex AI concepts into approachable learning experiences. Based in Nairobi, she pairs a BSc in Business Innovation Technology Management with business decision-making training from Ivey, and outside tech she channels creativity into sketching, trying new hobbies, and a family tradition of marathon running—except she prefers to "run code."
7 years of coding experience
Modcom InstituteIvey Business Decision Making Course, at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Ivey Business Decision Making Course, at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology at Ivey Business School at Western UniversityBSc. Business Innovation Technology Management, BSc. Business Innovation Technology Management at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Swahili, English
Github Skills (13)
prompt-engineering10
azure10
openai10
microsoft-azure10
generative-ai10
llm9
python9
embedding9
ai9
lm9
language-model9
chatgpt8
transformers7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners
Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI 🔗 https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/
Role in this project:
ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:3 PRs, 4 comments, 3 issues in 11 months
Contributions summary:Bethany primarily contributed to the project by modifying and adapting existing code, specifically within Jupyter notebooks related to building chat applications and using Azure OpenAI services. Their work involved integrating OpenAI's API, setting up prompts, and implementing functionalities like text summarization and classification, as well as exploring embeddings. The user's focus was on leveraging generative AI models for various use cases.
aiazurechatgptdall-egenerative-ai
MicrosoftStudentAmbassadors-Kenya/building-series-podcast
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Building series podcast
Contributions:4 PRs, 141 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
podcast
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