Eric Wairagala
Research Engineer at Lelapa AI
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Wairagala is a solutions-driven Research Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience in AI/ML, software and data engineering, currently building research-driven systems at Lelapa AI in Kampala. He progressed from student intern to machine learning software engineer at Makerere AI Lab, combining academic rigor from a Master's in Computer Science with practical delivery of production ML pipelines and data platforms. Eric has deep experience designing data architectures, deploying models to production, and maintaining reliable ETL and monitoring systems for real-world applications. Known for clear communication and agile collaboration, he bridges research and engineering to turn prototypes into maintainable products. Outside core duties he blends curiosity with continual learning—pursuing new tools and techniques to close the gap between experimental models and scalable deployments.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Makerere University
English, English, Bantu, Swahili, Swahili
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (119)
nlp10
acl9
transformer9
python9
windows9
phonetics9
computational-linguistics9
deep-learning9
pytorch9
machine-learning9
speech-recognition9
natural-language-processing9
android9
language-model8
datasets8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rdatagroup/group19
Jun 2018 - Dec 2022
data for the group
Contributions:4 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
openscienceopendatadata
tobiusaolo/RMS-Nssf
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:33 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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