Espoir Buzina
Machine Learning Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEspoir Buzina is a Machine Learning Engineer with a decade of software experience and six years focused on end-to-end ML systems, currently building lending models at Lloyds Banking Group. He has designed and deployed data pipelines and real-time prediction APIs on AWS, scaled models to serve production traffic, and cut release times by 50% through CI/CD automation. An active open-source contributor in NLP, he helped add baseline machine translation for English–Lingala to Masakhane, and has fine-tuned Transformer models (BERT, T5) for tasks including French question answering. He combines backend engineering chops—shown by refactoring Flask-RESTful APIs and building parsing and routing systems—with hands-on cloud GPU management for research workloads. A Chevening Scholar with an MSc in Big Data and Text Analytics (Distinction), he pairs rigorous academic work with practical impact for multilingual and production ML. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and curious—he quotes Socrates on his GitHub bio, signaling a continual appetite for learning.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Big Data and Text Analytics, Distinction (71%), Master of Science - MS, Big Data and Text Analytics, Distinction (71%) at University of EssexBachelor of Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, A0, Bachelor of Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering, A0 at ULPGL - GomaDiploma, Math and Physics, Diploma, Math and Physics at Alfajiri High School
English, French, Swahili
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Github Skills (29)
machine-translation10
python10
flask-ask10
flask-restful10
lang10
nlp10
marshmallow10
flask10
api-design9
restful-api9
pandas9
visual-studio-code9
api-rest9
mysql-python9
byte-pair-encoding9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
masakhane-io/masakhane-mt
Jan 2020 - Apr 2021
Machine Translation for Africa
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:36 commits, 10 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Espoir's commits indicate a focus on baseline machine translation for the English-Lingala language pair within the "Machine Translation for Africa" repository. The changes involve adding baseline models and BPE codes. The code differences show the addition of test data for the English-Lingala language pair.
nlpmachine-translationtranslationafrican-languagesnatural-language-processing
karec/cookiecutter-flask-restful
Apr 2020 - May 2020
Flask cookiecutter template for builing APIs with flask-restful, including JWT auth, cli, tests, swagger, docker and more
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Espoir primarily contributed to refactoring and restructuring the project's code, splitting resources and schemas. They added factory implementations for testing and updated API endpoints. The commits indicate a focus on Flask-RESTful API development, including schema management and resource definitions. These changes suggest a strong understanding of backend principles within this Flask-based project.
clipythoncookiecutter-flaskrestfulflask
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