Frederick Apina
Senior Data Scientist
Portugal
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Top SchoolFrederick Apina is a Senior Data Scientist with eight years of experience building and deploying ML-driven products that solve real-world problems, from plant disease detection for farmers to conversational AI across African markets. He has moved fluidly between startups and research roles—co-founding Belltro to transform Conversational AI, contributing as a Machine Learning Researcher at the Interactive Technologies Institute, and now shaping data science efforts at Mantu. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he pairs hands-on model engineering and backend experience with academic rigor from degrees in software engineering and computer science. Based in Portugal, Frederick also invests in community impact by running a Google Developer Group and mentoring local technologists at an innovation hub. Less obvious: he blends entrepreneurial grit with research-oriented thinking, making him adept at turning prototypes into production systems with tangible social benefit.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering at University of DodomaMaster's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering, Master's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering at Universidade da Madeira
English, KiswahiliProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apixworks/IPT-II-2019
Aug 2019 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
apixworks/Malaria-keras-frcnn
Dec 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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