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Founder of TAG Ecosystem, a free community training Africans into job-ready AI talent and building open Nigerian Pidgin datasets." }, "work": [ { "company": "Manifold Enterprise Solutions", "url": "https://manifoldenterprisesolutions.com/", "role": "AI Engineer · Data & AI Team", "period": "January 2026 – present", "details": "Vendor-facing AI solutions across finance, oil & gas, FMCG and other industries: demos, POCs and production delivery on cloud as an OEM partner with Microsoft, Huawei and Google. Built KYC document intelligence, a financial analyzer, AML screening, a conversational AI safety solution for oil & gas, and AIOps via Microsoft Copilot integration. Cross-functional FinOps work reducing clients' cloud spend." }, { "company": "Tolaram Group", "url": "https://www.tolaram.com/", "role": "AI Engineer · Marketing AI", "period": "August 2025 – January 2026", "details": "AI-powered solutions driving product sales: the BBNaija 2025 AI Avatar campaign (microsite + Snapchat AR lenses), the Lush Hair AI try-on, AI sales agents automating reporting and campaign insights, and an AI governance framework aligned to the NDPA and EU AI Act protecting consumer data in AI marketing." }, { "company": "Migo Money", "url": "https://www.migo.ng/", "role": "AI Engineer / Data Scientist · FinTech Lending", "period": "2025", "details": "Built Migo's WhatsApp AI bot an LLM-powered conversational system on AWS engaging customers by segment (owing, settled, ongoing, new). Beyond support, it was an insight engine: chats stored in a dedicated database and analyzed to understand defaults (e.g., interest too high) and repayment appetite for installment restructuring. WhatsApp Flows integration; cross-functional work with DevOps." }, { "company": "Data Science Nigeria (EqualyzAI)", "url": "https://datasciencenigeria.org/", "role": "Data Scientist / AI Researcher", "period": "August 2023 – March 2025", "details": "AI research showcased at NeurIPS, ICLR and Deep Learning Indaba. Built the RAG side of GovLLM (LLM document processing & retrieval for government agencies); contributed to AfroLLM (LLM for African languages); built agentic systems automating LLM training-data validation; led the Nigeria 3MTT DeepTech Ready project aligning trainers and building an LLM grader for thousands of learners." }, { "company": "UnivelCity Programming School", "url": "https://univelcity.com/", "role": "Data Analyst Intern", "period": "July – October 2022", "details": "Cross-department data-collection pipeline on Microsoft SQL Server; data-science curriculum for the LMS; hosted an SDG-focused hackathon; credit-risk analysis for a student loan initiative." }, { "company": "Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors", "role": "Gold Ambassador (volunteer) first from FUTA", "period": "July 2021 – November 2023", "details": "Managed a 1,000+ student community; top-viewed Microsoft blog post on data scraping (17,700+ views); built a health chatbot with OpenAI technology at the Game of Learners Hackathon; convened Nigeria's largest Global Power Platform Event (750 students)." } ], "publications": [ { "title": "Bridging the Terminology Gap: Glossary-Augmented Machine Translation for Nigerian Pidgin", "venue": "WiML Symposium @ ICML 2026, Korea", "role": "Principal Investigator (TAG Ecosystem)", "year": 2026, "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/flora-oladipupo_wiml-icml2026-machinelearning-share-7480394398623698945-K7ha/" }, { "title": "How Effective Are AI Models in Translating English Scientific Texts to Nigerian Pidgin: A Low-resource Language?", "venue": "ICLR 2025 ICBINB Workshop · PMLR vol. 296:84–89 · ★ Didactic Paper Award + spotlight talk", "role": "First author", "year": 2025, "link": "https://proceedings.mlr.press/v296/oladipupo25a.html" }, { "title": "Enhancing Inclusivity: Machine Translation of English Biological Research Papers to Nigerian Pidgin-English", "venue": "WiML @ NeurIPS 2024 (Vancouver) & NeurIPS 2025 (Mexico) 2× WiML grant winner", "role": "Lead researcher", "year": 2024 }, { "title": "Open datasets: Eng-PidginBioData (2,300 rows, Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.18888857) & Eng_PidginEdu (26,000+ rows)", "venue": "Hugging Face · CC-BY-4.0", "link": "https://huggingface.co/coderGit", "year": 2025 } ], "projects": [ { "name": "KYC Document Intelligence", "desc": "AI KYC & document extraction adopted by Nigerian financial institutions.", "link": "https://kyc-azure-poc-mes.vercel.app/", "stack": "Azure AI · Document Intelligence" }, { "name": "FinBuddy", "desc": "Conversational AI financial co-pilot improving financial literacy and banking access.", "link": "https://yellow-pond-040b2980f.6.azurestaticapps.net/", "stack": "LLM Agents · Azure" }, { "name": "AML Screening & Monitoring", "desc": "Anti-money-laundering AI for compliance teams.", "link": "https://calm-field-0daa7890f.7.azurestaticapps.net/", "stack": "AI Compliance · Azure" }, { "name": "Guinness Selfie AI Generator", "desc": "Brand-activation GenAI image tool.", "link": "https://github.com/shashacode/Guinness_Streamlit", "stack": "Python · Gemini · OpenRouter" }, { "name": "Fine-tuning AI on African datasets", "desc": "Guide + published afriteva-en-yor English→Yoruba model.", "link": "https://github.com/shashacode/Beginner-Intro-to-Finetuning", "stack": "HuggingFace · AfriTeVa · W&B" }, { "name": "AI Operations", "desc": "Helping organizations integrate AI into daily workflows: agentic flows across systems, Microsoft Copilot deployment, process automation, FinOps.", "stack": "Copilot · Agentic AI · FinOps" } ], "certificates": [ { "name": "Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate", "valid": "2025–2027", "link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/api/credentials/share/en-us/FloraOladipupo/7012412979117AFF?sharingId=FED71F1FC5487F8A" }, { "name": "Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist Associate", "valid": "2024–2027", "link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/api/credentials/share/en-us/FloraOladipupo/5A4B9A1CC27C3C41?sharingId=FED71F1FC5487F8A" }, { "name": "Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate", "valid": "2023–2027", "link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/api/credentials/share/en-us/FloraOladipupo/85866A31C725A1D0?sharingId=FED71F1FC5487F8A" }, { "name": "Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals", "valid": "2023", "link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/api/credentials/share/en-us/FloraOladipupo/5F990E6DD3095D0A?sharingId=FED71F1FC5487F8A" }, { "name": "Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals", "valid": "2023", "link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/api/credentials/share/en-us/FloraOladipupo/EB26E8D929D2D394?sharingId=FED71F1FC5487F8A" }, { "name": "Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals", "valid": "2022", "link": "https://learn.microsoft.com/api/credentials/share/en-us/FloraOladipupo/48B17436D69B3084?sharingId=FED71F1FC5487F8A" } ], "awards": [ "Didactic Paper Award ICLR 2025 ICBINB Workshop, Singapore (April 2025)", "2× Women in Machine Learning grants NeurIPS 2024 (Vancouver, Canada) & NeurIPS 2025 (Mexico)", "WiML Symposium @ ICML 2026 (Korea) accepted research as Principal Investigator, TAG Ecosystem", "Deep Learning Indaba Top Research Poster Prize (2024); Applications & Selections Committee organizer (2024 & 2025)", "Meta Llama 3.1 Impact Sub-Saharan Africa Hackathon Kigali, Rwanda (October 2024)", "Data Science Nigeria In-House Hackathon Award (September 2024)" ], "profiles": { "website": "https://floraportfolio.tagecosystemai.com", "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/flora-oladipupo/", "github": "https://github.com/shashacode", "huggingface": "https://huggingface.co/coderGit", "scholar": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c8w2OWoAAAAJ", "x": "https://x.com/flora_oladipupo", "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/flora_the_ai_girl", "tiktok": "https://www.tiktok.com/@flora_the_ai_girl", "medium": "https://medium.com/@floraoladipupo", "hashnode": "https://writewithshasha.hashnode.dev", "linktree": "https://linktr.ee/flora_oladipupo", "tag_ecosystem": "https://www.tagecosystemai.com" }, "meta": { "generated": "2026-07-12", "source": "https://floraportfolio.tagecosystemai.com", "mcp": "https://flora-mcp.floraoladipupo.workers.dev" } }