Derrick Ikenga
AI & AR Innovation Lead
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolDerrick Ikenga is an AI & AR Innovation Lead with 9 years of experience building revenue-driving AI automations, immersive AR/3D experiences, and end-to-end SaaS products from Nairobi. He started in computer vision and spatial computing, ran a software studio for spatial experiences, and has since translated that foundation into generative AI systems that have helped realize over $3M in sales for brands and agencies. Derrick blends entrepreneurial training from Lagos Business School and an engineering background with hands-on product and engineering leadership roles at companies including Meta and Vault Hill. He specializes in practical, business-focused implementations—shipping internal tools and automations that improve operational efficiency as well as customer engagement. An avowed “software artist,” he uniquely pairs visual/3D sensibilities with pragmatic AI engineering to create both delightful and commercially effective experiences.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Mechanical Engineering at Federal University of Technology Owerri Nigeria
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Github Skills (15)
arcore6
oculus5
virtual-reality4
react4
openxr4
arkit4
react-native3
ios3
oculus-quest3
augmented-reality3
android3
gear-vr3
cross-platform2
daydream2
java1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
euphoriawolf/ussd
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
euphoriawolf/firebase-react-auth
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 months
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