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STEPHEN GODSPOWER
Software architecturen
Cross River State,Lagos, Nigeria.
Summary
Senior AI Engineer and Systems Architect with experience designing and deploying production-grade ML systems and scalable backend platforms. Led development of AI-integrated financial and educational systems, optimizing performance, reliability, and intelligent automation. Strong background in Java, Spring Boot, distributed systems, and ML model deployment.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead System Architect
DataRobot
10.2023 - 12.2024
- Architected and optimized distributed backend services, tripling system throughput while ensuring 99.99% availability.
- Designed and implemented real-time event-driven pipelines, reducing anomaly detection latency by 60% under concurrent workloads.
- Refactored critical microservices to enhance horizontal scalability, decreasing API response time by 40% during peak traffic.
- Led CI/CD and observability enhancements across services, implementing automated deployment and monitoring strategies that cut incident resolution time by 35%.
Machine Learning Engineer
Hugging Face
11.2020 - 05.2023
- Fine-tuned transformer-based NLP models for text generation and summarization, enhancing contextual accuracy across domain-specific datasets.
- Engineered large-scale transformer architectures, including BERT, T5, and Llama, on corpora exceeding 10 million tokens, boosting task-specific performance by up to 28% over baseline benchmarks.
- Developed production-grade end-to-end ML pipelines for multilingual NLP systems, reducing model iteration cycles by 45%.
- Architected scalable AI microservices to integrate NLP inference into high-availability backend systems, delivering low-latency predictions under concurrent workloads.
Senior Software Engineer
Access Bank Plc
05.2019 - 01.2020
- Spearheaded design and delivery of in-house financial platform, reducing loan processing time by 40%.
- Engineered robust microservices architecture to enhance core banking operations and support scalability.
- Led cross-functional team of 5 engineers from system design to production deployment, ensuring optimal performance.
- Implemented secure authentication frameworks using encryption standards and JWT-based access control.
- Streamlined underwriting workflows, significantly improving customer turnaround and operational efficiency.
Education
Master's degree - Computer Science
National Open University of Nigeria
01-2023
Bachelor of Computer Science - Lagos, Nigeria
University of Calabar
01-2023
Skills
Backend & Architecture
- Java, Spring Boot
- Microservices Architecture
- RESTful API Design
- Distributed Systems
- System Design & Performance Optimization
AI & Machine Learning
- Transformer-based Models
- Model Fine-Tuning
- NLP Systems
- ML Deployment & Inference Optimization
- Python (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, PyTorch)
Cloud & DevOps
- Docker
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab)
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis
Accomplishments
- Spearheaded the design and deployment of a cloud-native AI tutoring ecosystem combining Transformers, multi-modal inputs, and distributed backend services, supporting 10,000+ simultaneous learners with sub-300ms inference latency, setting a new standard for scalable AI education platforms in emerging markets.
- Designed and integrated ML inference pipelines, including model fine-tuning, evaluation, and API-based deployment, enabling adaptive content personalization across user learning sessions.
- Engineered scalable backend services with optimized database queries and caching strategies to reduce response latency and support horizontal scaling under concurrent workloads.
Languages
English, Proficient
References
References available upon request.
Work Preference
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RemoteSalary Range
₦60/hr - ₦1000/hrTimeline
Lead System Architect
DataRobot
10.2023 - 12.2024
Machine Learning Engineer
Hugging Face
11.2020 - 05.2023
Senior Software Engineer
Access Bank Plc
05.2019 - 01.2020
Master's degree - Computer Science
National Open University of Nigeria
Bachelor of Computer Science - Lagos, Nigeria
University of Calabar