May 2024 – Present

Experience

Four engineering roles across fintech, identity verification and AI products.

Industry

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Sept 2025 – Present · Onsite · AccraSoftware EngineerBlack Star Group

Built and deployed self-hosted Large Language Model infrastructure on open-source models, wrapped in an OpenAI-style API layer for seamless integration into fintech workflows.
Developed scalable KYC/AML verification backend systems that let fintech clients run compliant identity checks at high volume.
Built and maintained a centralized client portal backend for institutional asset management, financial asset tracking and trading.
Integrated third-party payment, trading and brokerage APIs for deposits, order placement and portfolio settlement, handling idempotency, webhook reconciliation and partner-side rate limits.
Partnered with vendor engineering teams on REST/webhook integrations for payments, market data and trade execution; owned contract negotiation on payload shape, retry semantics and error taxonomy.

Oct 2024 – Sept 2025 · RemoteSoftware EngineerAchieve by Petra

Built and maintained production backend services in Ruby on Rails to automate end-to-end customer care workflows.
Designed, trained and deployed an ML-powered identity verification system integrated into production APIs, reducing customer onboarding time from 24 hours to under 3 minutes.
Implemented background processing, API integrations and real-time verification workflows that delivered measurable business impact.
Collaborated with product, data and operations teams to translate business requirements into scalable full-stack solutions.

Oct 2024 – Nov 2025 · Remote · Part-timeSoftware EngineerTechvision Global (Accede Ltd)

Developed responsive frontend interfaces and UI components in Next.js and TypeScript from Figma designs.
Optimized backend data caching strategies, reducing API calls by 40% and saving over $400 monthly in infrastructure costs.
Worked with backend engineers to integrate APIs and build automation workflows for grant search and application processing.
Contributed to the full-stack architecture of an AI-supported platform handling automated decision workflows.

May 2024 – Sept 2024 · RemoteJunior Machine Learning EngineerStacAI

Built and trained an end-to-end e-KYC pipeline with spoof detection in Python, improving verification accuracy by 85%.
Developed and productionized anti-spoofing models for facial verification pipelines.
Built backend services to orchestrate real-time identity verification workflows and ML model inference.

Sept 2025 – PresentOnsite · Accra

Black Star Group

Built and deployed self-hosted Large Language Model infrastructure on open-source models, wrapped in an OpenAI-style API layer for seamless integration into fintech workflows.
Developed scalable KYC/AML verification backend systems that let fintech clients run compliant identity checks at high volume.
Built and maintained a centralized client portal backend for institutional asset management, financial asset tracking and trading.
Integrated third-party payment, trading and brokerage APIs for deposits, order placement and portfolio settlement, handling idempotency, webhook reconciliation and partner-side rate limits.
Partnered with vendor engineering teams on REST/webhook integrations for payments, market data and trade execution; owned contract negotiation on payload shape, retry semantics and error taxonomy.

Oct 2024 – Sept 2025Remote

Achieve by Petra

Built and maintained production backend services in Ruby on Rails to automate end-to-end customer care workflows.
Designed, trained and deployed an ML-powered identity verification system integrated into production APIs, reducing customer onboarding time from 24 hours to under 3 minutes.
Implemented background processing, API integrations and real-time verification workflows that delivered measurable business impact.
Collaborated with product, data and operations teams to translate business requirements into scalable full-stack solutions.

Oct 2024 – Nov 2025Remote · Part-time

Techvision Global (Accede Ltd)

Developed responsive frontend interfaces and UI components in Next.js and TypeScript from Figma designs.
Optimized backend data caching strategies, reducing API calls by 40% and saving over $400 monthly in infrastructure costs.
Worked with backend engineers to integrate APIs and build automation workflows for grant search and application processing.
Contributed to the full-stack architecture of an AI-supported platform handling automated decision workflows.

May 2024 – Sept 2024Remote

StacAI

Built and trained an end-to-end e-KYC pipeline with spoof detection in Python, improving verification accuracy by 85%.
Developed and productionized anti-spoofing models for facial verification pipelines.
Built backend services to orchestrate real-time identity verification workflows and ML model inference.

Oct 2025 – Present

MSc Computer Science

University of Ghana, Legon · Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Software Engineering

Jan 2021 – Aug 2024

BSc Computer Science

University of Ghana, Legon

Jan 2024 – Present

Graduate Research Assistant

DISAL, University of Ghana · Advisor: Prof. Justice Kwame Appati. Thesis research on early sepsis prediction; one Springer publication.

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