Tobius Saul
Data Scientist
Kampala, Central Region, Uganda
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Top SchoolTobius Saul is a data scientist and software engineer based in Kampala with eight years of hands-on experience spanning data engineering, software development, and applied machine learning. He specializes in NLP and computer vision—building end-to-end solutions from speech/text conversions and sentiment/topic models to satellite image analysis and geospatial object detection. Tobius combines strong statistical modeling with practical deployment and scaling experience, ensuring research-grade models run reliably in production. He has worked in academia and industry, including a data engineering role at Makerere University and current data science work at M-Omulimisa, while also operating as a self-employed software programmer since 2016. Holding a Master’s in Data Science from the University of East London and an undergraduate background in software engineering from Makerere, he continuously tracks state-of-the-art techniques. Beyond models, he brings a pragmatic focus on measurable impact and reproducible pipelines that bridge research and real-world applications.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Data Science, Master's degree, Data Science at University of East LondonData scientist, Computer Software Engineering, Data scientist, Computer Software Engineering at Makerere University
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Github Skills (29)
artificial-intelligence10
named-entity-recognition10
python10
arabic-nlp10
entity-linking10
text-classification10
language-processing10
data-preprocessing10
spacy10
neural10
fairness-ml10
natural-language-processing10
cython10
corenlp10
nlp10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bigideaafrica/yogpt
Jul 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:75 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
tobiusaolo/yogptbittensor
Oct 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:89 pushes in 1 month
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