Kalu Ogbureke
Research Engineer at Fraunhofer IAIS
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolKalu Ogbureke is a research engineer with eight years of experience specializing in speech technology, machine learning, and deployable MLOps solutions, currently based in Cologne. He has built and optimized ASR and dialog components—from Kaldi acoustic models and inverse text normalizers to LiveASR microservices—and integrated Whisper and LLMs (GPT-3.5/4, LangChain) into production speech assistants. His work spans industry adoptions, including localizing voice assistants for Samsung’s Bixby and deploying a hospital chat system that improved UX through LangChain-driven workflows. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, he has improved out-of-vocabulary handling and robustness in Whisper, showing a knack for practical model adaptation. With a PhD-level research background and hands-on experience managing collaborative codebases, he is focused on scalable, reproducible ML systems and is actively expanding into Kubernetes-driven deployments.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BEng., Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BEng., Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Federal University of Technology Owerri NigeriaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University College DublinMSc, Signal Processing, MSc, Signal Processing at University of Bristol
Github Skills (13)
perceptron10
raii8
journal7
cpp6
educational-technology4
creative-commons2
academia2
open-access2
audiocontext1
javascript1
api1
draw1
web-animations1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kalu-o/k_mean_clustering_cplus
Jul 2018 - Apr 2024
Contributions:1 push in 5 years 10 months
kalu-o/mLEARn
Mar 2019 - Jul 2021
An Implementation of Mutli-layer Perceptron in C++
Contributions:2 releases, 77 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 4 months
cppperceptronc-plus-pluscpp17raii
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