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DAVID ASAMU

I have always been fascinated with technology and the opportunity it provides to touch lives. This passion drove me to study Computer Engineering but it was not until after I discovered python in my first year in the university that I realised how programming can be used to tackle a lot of our day-to-day problems. Armed with my newfound programming skills, I would go on to build several solutions which eventually landed me an invite to a prestigious lab in the university. During this period, I got to collaborate with other students (MSc and PhD) and lecturers, working on fascinating projects in areas such as Natural Language Processing and Computer Vision. I would also go on to gain valuable industry experience by working remotely, primarily as a backend engineer, for multiple companies during the course of my remaining years in the university and even attempting to build my own startup.

I currently work at a Y Combinator backed FinTech startup based in Lagos, working on making financial services affordable and accessible to the unbanked and underbanked populace in Africa. As an engineer on the operations (DevOps/SRE) team, my primary assignment is to ensure that our core systems, responsible for providing financial services to thousands of people daily, are available, reliable and secure.

Featured Projects

Some side projects I work on during my free time. They revolve mostly around Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing.

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Bello

A video chat app for making direct (peer-to-peer) calls over LAN networks. Implented in python, using opencv.

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PNRS

Research, Development of algorithm for localization and isolation of Nigerian Plate Numbers in still and motion pictures using OpenCV. Character extraction using Tesseract Engine.

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Àjàntálá

Research, Design and Implementation of a Chatbot in Yorùbá Language, capable of intelligent conversation in the Kinship domain..

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  • 105102, Lekki, Lagos

  • + 234 7068 310 0640

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