Chris Orwa
Senior Data Scientist
Homa Bay County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Orwa is a senior data scientist with 11 years of hands-on experience turning complex datasets into actionable credit and product insights across fintech, media, and telecom in Kenya. Currently leading credit modelling at Pezesha, he has previously shaped data strategy and built ML-driven products as Head of Data at Sendy and Head of AI at StepWise. His background spans leadership roles at banks, startups, and research labs where he delivered experiments, production models, and analytics frameworks that informed business decisions. Known for blending technical rigor in R and Python with practical stakeholder-facing reporting, he excels at translating research methodologies into scalable solutions. Based in Homa Bay County, he brings a rare combination of field research roots and enterprise-grade deployment experience that helps teams move from pilot to production.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Kenyatta University
English, French, Swahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
r-package10
r9
condition9
methodology7
traffic7
speech6
api6
statistics6
opencv6
webscraping6
python6
loops6
dataframe6
datasets6
propagation6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
iHub/snapeshot
Mar 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 9 pushes in 8 months
chrisorwa/ytubestats
Apr 2016 - Nov 2023
Contributions:9 pushes in 7 years 8 months
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