I'm a Senior AI Engineer and Technical Lead at Tactable, where I own end-to-end delivery of production AI systems for tier-1 Canadian banking and AdTech clients across Microsoft Azure, GCP and AWS. I take RAG agents, agentic workflows, ML inference pipelines and full-stack AI apps from solution architecture through security review, compliance and deployment.
Before tech, I spent over a decade leading teams under real consequence: running bank branch operations in Nigeria with a zero-fraud record, then leading safety-critical field crews in Alberta's energy sector. That background still shapes how I deliver. I own the work end to end, I care about risk, and I bring people along.
Making the switch into Data Science and ultimately AI Engineering has been the best career decision I have made.
📍 Calgary, Alberta · Remote-first · He/Him
| Role | Focus | |
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| 🏦 | Senior Engineer, Production RAG Agent | Microsoft Azure AI stack for a tier-1 Canadian bank, answering questions across millions of documents |
| 📺 | Technical Lead, DOOH AI Campaign Platform | Full-stack AI app for digital out-of-home campaign analysis and booking, architecture to production |
| ⚙️ | Technical Lead, AdTech AIOps/MLOps | ML and AI classification inference for AdTech creatives at scale, with automated retraining on data drift |
| 📐 | Technical SME, Spec-Driven Development | Enterprise banking in Canada |
| 🎓 | FDE Technical Expert (SME), AI Makerspace | AI Makerspace FDE Program |
| ✍️ | Digital Craftsmanship | A newsletter on production AI patterns from the build floor. Launching soon |
| Years | Role | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 – now | Senior AI Engineer & Technical Lead Tactable · Remote, Canada |
Production AI for a tier-1 Canadian bank and global AdTech clients: RAG agents, agentic workflows, ML inference pipelines, a full-stack AI campaign platform. |
| 2022 – 2025 | Data Engineer → Senior Data Engineer Badal by TELUS Digital · Remote, Canada |
Led sprint execution for data teams serving tier-1 banks. Hadoop-to-GCP migration for BNS's Global Data Analytics Platform, dbt/BigQuery/Composer CI/CD, agentic AI on private Vertex AI endpoints. |
| 2022 | Data Engineer Totogi (a TelcoDR company) |
Led technical delivery of the Totogi–AWS 4G/5G VoLTE pilot on Magma Core. Telco data pipelines on AWS Glue, DynamoDB and Athena. |
| 2021 | Applied ML Engineer ReVisionz Inc · Calgary |
YOLO object detection and Azure OCR for Suncor Energy's Asset Data Lake Platform, cutting costs by more than 50%. |
| 2021 | Data Science Fellow Cybera Inc & Hockey AI |
Helped develop a recommender system PoC. |
| 2015 – 2020 | Plant Lead & Crew Lead Alberta energy sector |
Led safety-critical field crews for Suncor, Shell, MEG and Enbridge. Co-chaired the Joint Health and Safety Committee at Precise Downhole Solutions. |
| 2006 – 2013 | Head of Branch Operations FCMB & FirstBank · Nigeria |
Ran branch operations across two locations: staff, enterprise risk, vault and profitability. Change agent for a bank-wide transformation. Zero-fraud record. |
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FINANCIAL SERVICES · AZURE RAG agent for a tier-1 Canadian bank, answering questions across millions of documents. Delivered through security review, compliance and enterprise audit. Azure AI Foundry Azure OpenAI Qdrant LangGraph FastAPI
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ADTECH · FULL STACK Full-stack AI application for DOOH campaign analysis and booking. Owned the delivery lifecycle from architecture to production. Azure Container Apps Bicep LangGraph React
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ADTECH · MLOPS Production maintenance and retraining for a classification inference system serving AdTech creatives at scale, with retraining triggered by data drift. ONNX Runtime Azure ML Docker Python
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FINANCIAL SERVICES · GCP CI/CD analytics pipeline moving Bank of Nova Scotia's on-prem Hadoop data lake and warehouse to GCP. Hive/Spark ETL, Qlik, SFTP and TAMR datasets. BigQuery dbt Cloud Composer Dataproc Terraform
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FINANCIAL SERVICES · AGENTIC Multi-agent workflows for Regulatory Reporting, Customer Service and domain research, with human-in-the-loop oversight on privately hosted Vertex AI. LangGraph LangSmith Qdrant Vertex AI
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ENERGY · COMPUTER VISION Object detection and OCR on industrial asset data for Suncor Energy, cutting costs by more than 50%. YOLO Azure Cognitive Services Python
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Each box runs from newest in my stack to longest-standing.
🤖 Agents & LLMs      |
🧠 RAG & MLOps      |
🛠️ AI-assisted engineering      |
☁️ Cloud & IaC      |
🔧 Data engineering      |
🚢 Apps & languages      |
| Where | When | What |
|---|---|---|
| 🤖 AI Makerspace | Sept 2025 – now | Peer Supporter, AI Engineering Bootcamp. Breakouts on LLMs in production, RAG and agentic AI |
| 🏫 Lighthouse Labs | 2021 – 2024 | Mentor in Data Science & Analytics. Bootcamp and corporate GenAI training, code reviews, curriculum support |
| ✍️ Digital Craftsmanship | 2026 | Newsletter on production AI patterns, translated into frameworks engineers can use. Launching soon |
💬 Ask me about how to pivot into a tech career.
| Credential | Institution |
|---|---|
| Digital MBA, Technology Leadership | CTO Academy |
| MBA, Startup Ecosystems (in progress) | Augment Business School |
| Product Management with AI | Product Faculty |
| Data Science & Analytics | Bow Valley College |
| BAppTech, Petroleum Engineering | SAIT, Calgary |
| BSc, Industrial Chemistry | University of Benin, Nigeria |
This is a sampling of the work I have been doing since I pivoted into data and AI. I place a high value on personal growth and making positive contributions in a friendly team environment. My all-time favourites are in the Pinned Repositories below. Here are the rest, grouped by area. Click to expand.
🤖 Machine Learning & AI Engineering (12)
- Retrieval-Augmented Generative AI Q&A Solution for Food Safety
- Python-Azure-AI-REST-APIs
- Text Summarizer Flask Application
- Tensorflow BERT Sentiment Classifier
- OpenAI Chat Application Deployed with Vercel
- Chainlit Chatbot Application deployed with Huggingface
- Collaborative Filtering Recommender Engine
- Income Prediction Pipeline - MLOps
- My MLOps Learning Repository
- Azure AI Engineering Code Library
- Azure Machine Learning Project
- Employee Attrition Predictor
🔧 Data Engineering (10)
- AWS ETL Pipeline
- Azure Streaming Pipeline
- Apache Airflow ETL
- Document Streaming App with fastAPI, Kafka, Spark & MongoDB
- Analytics Engineering Prototype with dbt and BigQuery
- Contact Tracing using Elasticsearch and Streamlit Frontend
- Time Series Analytics Pipeline with Python, InfluxDB and Grafana
- Data Engineering with Hadoop - A Learning Project
- Airflow Learning Project - Astronomer
- Spark Application in Java
📊 Data Science & Analytics (4)
☁️ Cloud, Infrastructure & Full-Stack Playbooks (13)
- Managing a GKE Multi-tenant Cluster with Namespaces
- Building and Deploying a Docker image to a GKE Cluster
- Deploying Google Cloud Applications with Terraform
- Application Deployment with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
- GKE Multi-Tenant Cluster Management with Terraform Implementation Playbook
- US Cities API Backend
- News Frontend Application - React
- Valkyrie App - Deploying a golang Application with Kubernetes on Google Cloud
- Report Notification Service - Resilient, Asynchronous Notification System with NodeJS, Cloud Run and Pub/Sub
- Google Cloud Architecture: GKE Design, Implementations, Optimizations and Management
- REST API with Go, Firebase and Cloud Run
- Serverless App with Cloud Run that Creates PDF Files with Golang and PubSub
- Serverless App with Cloud Run that Creates PDF Files with Javascript and PubSub
Over 40 professional certifications across GCP, Azure, AWS, Databricks, dbt, Product Management and AI/ML, earned alongside active production work. See them on Credly and Accredible.
☁️ Cloud & platform certifications (19)
🏅 Google Cloud skill badges (13)
📚 Other certifications & programs (38)
🤖 AI & machine learning
🔧 Data engineering & analytics
🧭 Product, strategy & leadership
💻 Software & infrastructure
⚡ Fun fact: I still have not seen Star Wars. Maybe someday. Don't hold your breath!
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