Summary
Nicholas Ocholla is a Mobile and AI Engineer with 8 years of experience building production-grade mobile apps and scalable ML systems that prioritize trust, safety, and cultural relevance. He has driven cross-platform modernization and performance at MoneyGram and BODi while architecting AI agents—fraud detection, multilingual chatbots, and compatibility models—that measurably reduced scams by 30%, cut support requests by 40%, and increased engagement by 25%. Comfortable across the stack, he ships end-to-end solutions from data pipelines and PyTorch models to FastAPI/Streamlit frontends and mobile integrations like NeuroID and in-app chat using Jetpack Compose. He blends rigorous engineering practices (unit testing, CI/CD, modularization) with product-facing empathy, having rearchitected flows for design parity and accessibility across devices. Based in San Diego, he combines academic engineering foundations with hands-on ML/NLP experience using LangChain, RAG, FAISS, and XGBoost to deliver culturally attuned matchmaking and safety features.
8 years of coding experience
Maseno School
San Diego State University
B Sc. Engineering Engineering : Computer / Civil, B Sc. Engineering Engineering : Computer / Civil at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology