Nigeria has a vibrant and rapidly growing tech industry, and at the forefront of this growth are data science leaders.Â
1. Segun Adelowo:
With over 14 years of experience at Interswitch group, Segun has grown through the ranks in the company, serving as a Software Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead, Monitoring and Analytics, Lead Machine Learning Engineer, and currently, Head of Data Science.
He has built a reputation as a skilled and visionary data professional with expertise in machine learning, data engineering, and product management. Segun’s ability to architect and develop data products that solve complex business challenges has been critical to the success of Interswitch Group.
He is currently involved in data and machine learning operations, working on building machine learning infrastructures that manage data and machine learning pipelines to deliver business value. Segun’s skills in Python, Scikit-learn, SQL, Pandas, Airflow, and Apache Spark make him a sought-after expert in the field.
2. Nnaemeka Obiefuna:
Nnaemeka Obiefuna is experienced in the development and deployment of Machine learning models and entire training and inference pipelines. He is currently a Machine Learning Engineer who’s passionate about building and growing the Machine Learning communities in Nigeria and contributing to open-source projects.
Nnaemeka combines his knowledge of Statistics, Business Development, and Data Science to build data-driven projects/products that can actually solve problems.
He is interested in Neural Machine Translation (NMT) for low resource languages. Nnaemeka Obiefuna’s research interests are in NMT, Speech Recognition, Neuroscience, and GANs.
3. Maria-Goretti Chijioke
Maria-Goretti Chijioke is a certified data analyst with experience in enterprise data management and developing ETL pipelines for data migration from disparate sources to data warehouses.
Maria-Goretti is competent in analyzing data, identifying patterns, and reporting trends to provide insights for informed business decisions.
She is currently a Data Scientist at Octave Analytics. Maria-Goretti’s skillset include Power BI, SQL (SQL Server, Oracle, Postgres, BigQuery), SSIS, Excel, Tableau, Looker Studio, Knime Analytics, R, Python. She is definitely among the data science leaders in Nigeria.
In fact, Nigeria is home to many talented data science leaders, and Segun Adelowo, Nnaemeka Obiefuna, and Maria-Goretti Chijioke are just a few examples of the exceptional talents driving the growth of the industry.
Their skills, experience, and leadership have helped to put Nigeria on the map as a hub for data-driven innovation and have set the stage for even greater achievements in the future.
