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Jovi
Ukwade

AI & ML engineer

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I build AI agents and predictive models, and I start every one by asking what it costs when it's wrong.

BASED
Atlanta, GA
NOW
Building Vuee for Okearin Mart, Lagos
LOCAL
Atlanta (Eastern Time)

I'm Jovi, an AI and ML engineer in Atlanta. I studied actuarial science, interned in credit risk in London, and spent two years as a data analyst on 1,200 telecom mast sites. Now I'm building Vuee, an AI tool for a Lagos distributor that waits for a manager's sign-off. I also built Fifi, and I shoot short films.

Selected work

Three cuts I'd show you first.

  1. Vuee IN PRODUCTION Open the cut
  2. Fifi Shipped an in-browser MVP, pitched it at iLaunch, rebuilt the core as an agent-run research pipeline, and paused it at the limit of the data available. PAUSED Open the cut
  3. Predictive maintenance at Makasa Sun Fault flags at 87% precision; weekly reporting cut from 40 hours to 10. 2023–2025 Open the cut
  4. Teaching Claude Code to cut like me A 30-second vertical cut from seven studio clips, planned shot by shot. Now extended to event recaps with dialogue. IN USE Open the cut

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Experience

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  1. 001 VUEE V2 NOW Founder & engineer — Vuee, for Okearin Mart (Lagos) · Atlanta · remote
    • Vuee is an AI decision platform for Okearin Mart, an import-wholesale grocery distributor in Lagos.
    • Every action the system proposes, such as a transfer invoice between warehouses, waits for a manager's sign-off before it runs.
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  2. 002 TTU V1 2025-09 2026-05 Graduate Assistant — Texas Tech University · Lubbock, TX
  3. 003 TTU A1 2026-05 MS in Data Science · GPA 4.0 — Texas Tech University, Rawls College of Business · Lubbock, TX
    • Applied Multivariate Analysis · Time Series Analysis · Operations Research · Database Management Systems
  4. 004 FIFI V2 2025 2026-10 Founder & lead ML developer — Fifi · Lubbock → Atlanta
    • Fifi started as a virtual fitting room: a few inputs, a body-shape estimate, and a 3D model rendered in the browser.
    • Eight Claude Code subagents with distinct roles research the biology: an endocrinologist, an epidemiologist, a source verifier that checks every DOI via CrossRef, an integration analyst, an adversarial reviewer and three specialists.
    • Seven validation hooks enforce the pipeline's rules in code, exiting 1 to block an experiment or 2 to flag it.
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  5. 005 MAKASA V1 2023-06 2025-05 Data Analyst — Makasa Sun · solar and hybrid power for telecom mast sites · Remote
    • A generator fault model (ARIMA and XGBoost) flagged sites due for an engineer check-up from fault-code history at 87% precision.
    • Weekly reporting for 1,200+ telecom mast sites moved from manual Excel to Python scripts and automated pipelines (SQL, AWS S3, Redshift), cutting weekly reporting time from 40 hours to 10.
    • Analyzed 50K+ monthly site payment transactions in Python, improving forecast accuracy by 10% and reducing revenue variance by $120K a year.
    • Led the predictive maintenance project end to end, agreeing deliverables and timing with leadership, and managed a 3-person finance team.
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  6. 006 ESSEX A1 2023-07 BSc Actuarial Science — University of Essex · Colchester, UK
  7. 007 GTBANK V1 2022-06 2022-08 Risk Analysis Intern — Guaranty Trust Bank (UK) · Credit Risk, Retail Lending · London
    • Cleaned and validated 500K+ transaction records in SQL, cutting data preparation time by 60%.
    • Built retail loan default models in R across 10K+ borrowers (82% accuracy), comparing logistic regression with decision trees and choosing on explainability, not accuracy alone.
    • Prepared the loan default modelling dataset, joining customer, loan and repayment tables and setting the definition of default used by the model.
  8. 008 METRO V1 2021-06 2021-09 Customer Representative — Metro Bank (UK) · UK
    • Account openings, closures and transactions; outbound calls promoting insurance products.
  9. 009 FILM A2 2026 NOW Videographer & editor — Freelance · Atlanta · Atlanta
    • Portraits, birthdays and event recaps; I shoot, cut and grade.
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Film

I shoot and cut short films in Atlanta: portraits, birthdays, events. The instincts are the same ones I use in engineering. Find the strongest material, cut on the beat, and don't let anyone see the seams.

Cut 04 How I taught Claude Code to cut like me

About

I'm Jovi Ukwade, an AI and ML engineer in Atlanta.

I studied actuarial science at the University of Essex. In the summer of 2022 I interned in credit risk at Guaranty Trust Bank in London, building loan default models in R.

After graduating I spent two years as a data analyst at Makasa Sun, working with data from more than 1,200 telecom mast sites. I built a model that used fault-code history to flag sites due for an engineer's check-up, and I moved weekly reporting off Excel and onto Python and automated pipelines. That took it from 40 hours a week to 10.

Then I did a master's in data science at Texas Tech, worked as a graduate assistant there, and finished with a 4.0.

Now I'm building Vuee with Okearin Mart, a wholesale grocery distributor in Lagos. It answers questions about stock and sales and proposes what to do next, and nothing goes through until a manager signs off.

I also shoot and edit short films around Atlanta: portraits, birthdays and events.

Things I believe

  • Guardrails only count if code enforces them.
  • An agent can do everything statistically right and still be completely wrong.
  • Before you ship a model, know who pays when it's wrong, and how much.
  • Agents don't fill in blanks the way people do. Specify, or they'll guess.