Summary
Kevin Bazira is a Senior Software Engineer and applied ML practitioner with nine years of experience building full-stack web and mobile applications and production-grade ML services. At Wikimedia Foundation he architects and optimizes ML inference and MLOps—deploying model servers with KServe and vLLM, building Airflow training pipelines, and integrating predictions into event streams that power Wikipedia features like link recommendation and logo detection. A committed open-source contributor, he has shipped plugins and themes for WordPress, contributed to MediaWiki and Gutenberg, and helped bring ML capabilities into widely used community platforms. Comfortable leading hiring, onboarding and mentoring, Kevin blends hands-on engineering with product-minded delivery and a practical focus on making technology accessible—evident in his earlier work founding an e-learning platform for Ugandan students.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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