Kevin O'brien
Founder at brainiac_lab
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin O'Brien is an AI and ML engineering leader and founder with nine years of experience building production-grade intelligence across fintech, mobility, and proptech. He combines a first-class Computer Science and Mathematics background with hands-on research experience in deep learning sequence modelling to bridge state-of-the-art methods and reliable engineering practices. Kevin has led teams and product efforts from fraud and risk at Careem to unified fiat/crypto wallets and Open Banking insights, and now runs brainiac_lab while holding senior AI leadership roles at CoreOS and CSM. Known for democratizing AI for businesses, he often operates at the intersection of research, data engineering, and product delivery—an approach reflected in frequent cross-functional leadership and early-stage founding roles. Based in Dubai, he brings a trader’s risk-sense and an engineer’s rigor to shipping pragmatic, scalable ML systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Leaving Certificate (Secondary/High School), Leaving Certificate (Secondary/High School) at Blackrock CollegeBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University College Dublin
Github Skills (82)
python10
text-processing10
xps10
switcher10
application-launcher9
modin9
neural-network9
mupdf9
epub9
pymupdf9
tesseract9
deep-learning9
launcher9
dmenu9
dataframe9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
KevOBrien/dotfiles
Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
KevOBrien/FYP
Nov 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:32 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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