Derrick Mwiti
ML Media Copywriter Developer Advocate
Oregon, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolDerrick Mwiti is an ML-focused developer advocate and technical writer with nine years of experience translating machine learning research into practical demos, docs, and viral media. Currently at Exponent/DataCamp/Qdrant he combines product-facing advocacy with hands-on integrations, having previously shipped Optimum-DeepSparse and CPU-first demos that enabled NLP, CV, and Stable Diffusion workloads without GPUs. He’s equally fluent in creating high-quality tutorials, blogs, and video content—having produced 100+ in-depth tutorials and driven large social reach for Neural Magic—while supporting engineers to triage bugs and ship documentation. Based in Oregon with roots in Kenya, Derrick pairs a formal CS background (MEST Africa, Multimedia University of Kenya) with hands-on data science and product marketing experience, making complex ML tooling accessible to developers and customers alike. Notably, he has a track record of integrating niche inference engines into popular pipelines and community platforms (Hugging Face, SAHI), accelerating adoption through clear examples and demos.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Diploma Computer Science, Postgraduate Diploma Computer Science at MEST AfricaBachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at Multimedia University Of KenyaOrganizational LeadershipEntrepreneurshipBusiness Development, Organizational LeadershipEntrepreneurshipBusiness Development at Lapid Leaders Africa
Kiswahili, English
Github Skills (115)
prediction-model10
large-image10
python10
image-processing10
pruning10
image-to-text10
huggingface10
deep-learning10
instance-segmentation10
coco10
stock-price10
satellite10
yolov510
video-processing10
openmmlab10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
neuralmagic/optimum-deepsparse
Jul 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:5 reviews, 20 PRs, 108 pushes in 3 months
layerai-archive/examples
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
This repository contains example projects that you can use to get started with Layer.
Contributions:66 reviews, 211 commits, 99 PRs in 4 months
machine-learningget-startedexample-projects
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