Taiwo Jegede | Data Analyst & AI Engineer

About Me

AI Engineer and Senior Data Analyst with a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence and 4+ years of experience in architecting serverless AI products, performance monitoring, and scalable data pipelines. Specializes in translating complex unstructured behavioral data into rigorous statistical models and actionable strategies. Expert in Python, SQL, NLP (BERT, Transformers), Power BI, and AWS (Bedrock, Lambda, Glue), with a proven track record of leading technical initiatives that drove a 23% ROI increase and reduced data retrieval latency by 50%.

Currently Working On: An Image Captioning System for the Yoruba Language and refining AI agents for negotiation and study assistance
Looking to Collaborate On: Open-source NLP projects, Data Visualization dashboards, and innovative Supply Chain simulations
Fun Fact: I believe great code is like poetry - elegant, efficient, and expressive

Core Competencies

AI & Machine Learning

Natural Language Processing
Deep Learning (RNN, LSTM)
Sentiment Analysis & Text Classification
GenAI & LLM Integration
AI Agent Development

Data Analysis & Engineering

Exploratory Data Analysis
Statistical Modeling & Regression
Data Visualization (Power BI, Tableau)
SQL & Database Management
Healthcare & Supply Chain Analytics

Cloud & DevOps

AWS (Lambda, Amplify, Bedrock)
Azure & GCP
Serverless Architecture
CI/CD Pipelines
Docker & Containerization

Software Development

Python (Django, Flask, FastAPI)
JavaScript/TypeScript
Web Development (HTML, CSS)
REST API Development
Version Control (Git/GitHub)

Education

MSc, Computer Science (AI & Machine Learning)

East Tennessee State University / Dec 2025

GPA: 4.0/4.0

BSc, Computer Science

Tai Solarin University / Sept 2016 - June 2021

GPA: 4.53/5.0

Professional Experience

AI Engineer & Senior Data Analyst

East Tennessee State University / Jan 2024 - Dec 2025

Architected and launched a Generative AI negotiation simulation leveraging AWS Bedrock and AWS Lambda to deliver automated, real-time role-play scenarios for students.
Boosted campaign ROI by 23% by conducting cohort and funnel analysis on unstructured behavioral data to train predictive models and resolve key drop-off points.
Led a cross-functional team to deploy a serverless NLP system utilizing AWS Comprehend and AWS Lambda, enabling real-time sentiment analysis and automatic feedback summarization.
Reduced manual reporting hours by 40% by engineering automated Python and SQL data ingestion pipelines to streamline monthly reporting packages.
Built interactive Power BI dashboards to track program health, supporting an 18% increase in retention metrics.

Data Analyst & Data Engineer

Doctall Telemedicine / Sept 2021 - Dec 2023

Scaled provider capacity by 200% (5 to 15 daily consults) and drove a $3M increase in sales by re-architecting clinical data pipelines.
Architected end-to-end ETL pipelines and optimized SQL queries that reduced clinical data retrieval turnaround time by 50%.
Re-architected the Master Data ecosystem to resolve discrepancies, ensuring a Single Source of Truth and 100% HIPAA compliance.
Prevented customer churn and reduced critical downtime by 37% by performing root cause analysis on payment and operational data.
Conducted rigorous statistical analysis and A/B testing on platform features to assess provider efficiency, guiding the product roadmap.

Technical Skills Dashboard

AI / Machine Learning

Python

TensorFlow

PyTorch

HuggingFace

NLP & GenAI

Data & Cloud

SQL

Pandas

AWS

Power BI

Web & Development

JavaScript

TypeScript

FastAPI

Docker

Git

Featured Projects

AgroAdvisor AR

Bilingual RAG agricultural advisory platform for Arkansas farmers, grounding rice, soybean, poultry, and spray-compliance guidance in Extension documents, live soil data, weather context, and citation safeguards.

React 19 FastAPI Pinecone Supabase Groq Gemini

Goalwright

AI-assisted IEP documentation product with RAG-grounded drafting, deterministic federal and state validation, local PII redaction, audit logging, human review gates, and .docx export for special-education teams.

FastAPI React TypeScript Gemini SQLCipher sqlite-vec

AI Negotiation Agent

An intelligent AI agent designed for supply chain negotiations using strategic algorithms and real-time simulation.

Python Streamlit NLP AI Agents

Advanced Negotiation System

Cloud-native negotiation platform migrated to AWS Lambda + Amplify with a scalable FastAPI RESTful backend.

FastAPI AWS Lambda AWS Amplify

NLP Suite

Comprehensive suite including VADER Sentiment Analysis, NER tagging, Spam Detection, and Topic Modeling implementations.

TensorFlow NLTK Keras

EDA Portfolio

Statistical analysis projects including Titanic Survival Prediction (97.2% acc) and interactive Power BI dashboards.

Pandas Seaborn Power BI

Customer Churn Prediction

End-to-end ML pipeline that identifies at-risk telecom customers, ranks them by churn probability (0.808 recall, 0.848 AUC-ROC), and explains predictions via an interactive Streamlit dashboard.

XGBoost Optuna MLflow Streamlit Docker

Enrollment Decline AI System

Three AI modules tackling the 2025 higher-ed demographic cliff: SARIMA/Prophet forecasting, XGBoost lead and yield prediction with bias audit, and a RAG admissions chatbot with 100% trick-refusal rate.

Python Streamlit SARIMA XGBoost SHAP ChromaDB Groq

Student Retention AI System

Identifies at-risk students 6-8 weeks before formal academic warnings using behavioral signals from 32K OULAD records. Calibrated XGBoost achieves 0.844 AUC-ROC with SHAP-explained advisor dashboard.

Python XGBoost SHAP Streamlit scikit-learn

Mental Health Early-Warning AI

AI triage tool for campus counseling centers: behavioral risk classifier, NLP distress detector with LIME explainability, and a crisis-aware chatbot with mandatory override layer. Advisor aid, not clinical diagnosis.

Python XGBoost DistilBERT LIME ChromaDB Groq Streamlit

AI systems for data-heavy decisions.