Silas Bempong
Machine Learning Engineer - Consultant at GCB Bank PLC
Ghana
Summary
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Top SchoolSilas Bempong is a machine learning engineer and consultant based in Ghana with eight years of experience applying data science and AI across banking, agriculture, and startup environments. He currently leads AI efforts at PlantVillage while consulting as an ML engineer for GCB Bank PLC, blending production ML deployment with domain-focused solutions. His background spans roles from senior AI engineer to engineering lead, giving him a track record of moving projects from research and prototyping into operational systems. Silas also contributes to open-source documentation—helping maintain usability in widely used libraries like h5py—highlighting attention to detail and developer experience. Trained originally as a mechanical engineer and later upskilled in full-stack development, he brings a cross-disciplinary perspective that helps bridge data, software, and real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
General Science, General Science at Mfantsipim SchoolBSc. Mechanical Engineering, BSc. Mechanical Engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KumasiFull Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampGeneral Science, General Science at St. Thomas Aquinas Senior High School
English, twi
Github Skills (7)
documentation10
github9
api-design5
restful-api5
rest-api5
api-rest5
python4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
h5py/h5py
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
HDF5 for Python -- The h5py package is a Pythonic interface to the HDF5 binary data format.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Silas primarily focused on updating and correcting URLs within the repository's documentation. They updated links in the README, various documentation files like 2.5.rst, contributing.rst, and index.rst, and the API documentation. The changes consistently involved correcting or updating existing URLs to ensure accuracy and proper functionality, thereby improving the usability and accessibility of the documentation.
h5pybinary-datapythondata-formathdf5
Silas-Asamoah/virtual-dom
Jan 2019 - May 2021
Using plain objects that represent actual DOMs in the browser
Contributions:6 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 4 months
browserjavascriptplainplain-objectsdom
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