BEng EECS -> MSc AI -> ML Software Engineer -> AI Research Engineer -> Building , an Open-Source framework for running SOTA LLMs, VLMs and TTS models on mobile phones & wearables. Backed by YCombinator, Oxford Seed Fund and Google for Startups.
- 2025-Present: Cactus Compute (YC S25) - Founder
- 2024-25: Deep Render - AI Research Engineer (Hardware-Aware models for realtime video codec).
- 2021-24: Wisdm - ML Software Engineer (Perception AI for Maxar Defence satelite imagery).
- 2019-21: Open-source activities during MSc (NanoDl, SuperLazyLLM, CUDARepo, etc.).
- 2018-19: Google Africa Developer Scholarship Programme with Andela (pre-MSc).
- 2017-18: Military service, posted to software engineering after bootcamp.
- 2013-17: Uni coursework in computing, electronics, data structures, algorithms, maths, physics.
- I wrote Math For ML (with codes).
- I gave this lecture to a small ML group in Nigeria, on optimising large-scale ML in JAX.
- I co-host this monthly dinner for AI researchers, engineers and founders in London.
- Kevin Murphy (DeepMind Principal), Daniel Holtz (Mid Journey Founder), Steve Messina (IBM CTO) followed back on X.
- After CUDARepo, Nvidia reached out, I did 7 technical rounds, got a verbal offer, back-and-forth over YOE/pay, then I got YC.
- Did MSc at QMUL, just to work with Prof Matt Purver (Ex-Stanford Researcher on CALO), did my project/thesis with his team.
- Did BEng under Prof Onyema Uzoamaka (Rumoured first Nigerian CS grad from MIT), he taught computing archs off-head!
- Building realtime ML models directly into FGPAs for one of the following:
- Multimodal EEG-to-Instruction AI for Brain-Machine Interfaces
- Multimodal World Models for phones, drones, VR headsets, medical devices etc.
- Analytically approximating portions of transformers to reduce parameters.
- Optimizing AI on Mobile Devices: A Hardware-Centric Approach
- When the talented fail to work hard, the hardworking beat the talented.
- Everything should be an adventure, not a race, everyone gets their moment someday.
- Make the best of your situation, complaining and pointing fingers do nothing.
- It often takes 120% effort, focus and passion, failure often results from giving less.