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by acaciabengo 39 days ago
Location: Kampala, Uganda Remote: Yes | Relocate: No

Tech: Python, PyTorch, Detectron2, OpenCV, Swin/ViT, BERT, Hugging Face, Ruby on Rails, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Airflow, RabbitMQ, Docker, GCP.

Email: acaciabengo@gmail.com

Resume:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oOeY0tsJ7Ujx2fk3m5BkSfBhto2...

GitHub / HF: acaciabengo

ML + Software Engineer, 11+ yrs. MSCS (ML) at Georgia Tech. Ex-founder/CTO of a telecom/fintech platform (60M+ SMS, 5M+ USSD lottery tickets, LTV/churn models that cut marketing ~50%).

Recent:

- plan_to_3d — Floor plan PDFs → interactive 3D GLB. Mask R-CNN + Swin-T/FPN in Detectron2 for wall/door/window segmentation; Shapely vectorization, trimesh extrusion with opening clipping, OCR-based scale, Gradio + Three.js viewer.

- NLP distress/moderation models for 13K users; Airflow pipelines on 1M+ msgs/month; Rails backend unifying Twilio/FB/YouTube (220K+ interactions). - CensorX — Open-sourced DistilBERT/ViT moderation models on HF (97% / 92% precision).

Looking for applied CV / multimodal ML, or senior ML+backend roles where shipping end-to-end matters.