Phoenix Sunkwa-mills
HEAD OF ELECTRONIC SECURITY at SMAP CLOUD GHANA
Seattle, Washington, Ghana
Summary
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Top SchoolPhoenix Sunkwa-mills is a technology leader with seven years of focused experience in electronic security and IT systems engineering, currently heading Electronic Security at Lion Security in Seattle while advising clients through Prime Matrix Solutions. He blends hands-on systems engineering with security-first operations, having implemented and analyzed IT infrastructures across government and private sectors including DVLA Ghana. A practical contributor to notable open-source ML projects (google-research, TensorFlow Lingvo, and IREE), he has improved model checkpointing, streaming speech models, and build/runtime automation—showing a rare crossover between security, systems, and machine learning tooling. Phoenix’s background in Management Information Systems and long track record of client-facing consulting reflect strengths in translating complex technical requirements into operational solutions and training teams to adopt them. An understated but valuable trait: he routinely bridges low-level build/runtime fixes with higher-level security practices, making deployments both reliable and auditable.
7 years of coding experience
General Arts, General Arts at Accra High SchoolDiploma, Management Information Systems, General, Diploma, Management Information Systems, General at NIITCertificate, Management Information Systems, General, Certificate, Management Information Systems, General at Google. Google IT Support. ...
Github Skills (19)
docker10
checkpoint10
python10
machine-learning10
model-checking10
dockers10
checkpointing10
tensorflow10
bazel10
speech-recognition10
distributed-computing9
build-automation9
ai9
keras9
nlp8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
iree-org/iree
Feb 2020 - Nov 2021
A retargetable MLIR-based machine learning compiler and runtime toolkit.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:289 reviews, 218 commits, 390 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Phoenix primarily contributed to the IREE project by modifying existing build files and updating code to use new language features. Their work included refactoring build files and testing configurations to use new and existing components. They updated the project's Docker images and build processes and introduced new tests related to tensorflow.
mlirspirvvulkantensorflowcompiler
google-research/google-research
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Google Research
Role in this project:ML Engineer
ML EngineerContributions:5 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Phoenix primarily contributed to the `kws_streaming` library, focusing on modifications related to models and dependencies within a speech recognition context. They removed a dependency (`frozendict`) and added a function for creating models with default parameters, which may simplify model creation and provide an entry point for new users. Further commits include fixing a Speech Commands distribution calculation error and general code cleanup related to data types.
googlemachine-learningai
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