Summary
Damilola Babalola is a CS Ph.D. candidate at NC State with a decade of hands-on software engineering experience building data-driven web applications and research systems. He blends research-grade ML/NLP analysis of keystroke data with production front-end expertise—having shipped React/Typescript dashboards, a Chrome extension for real-time student writing collection, and libraries used by health partners. His industry background includes front-end engineering at Goldman Sachs and multiple startups where he led product development, improved testing and UI workflows, and built multi-tenant platforms handling high volumes. Damilola is skilled at turning complex user and privacy requirements into secure, maintainable tooling and has mentored junior engineers while presenting research to educators and researchers. An uncommon combination of academia and fintech/startup experience, he focuses on human-centered analytics that make teacher and student workflows more actionable.
10 years of coding experience