Ikenna Oluigbo
Ikenna Oluigbo

Senior AI/ML Engineer

Open to offers · Member since 7 Oct 2026
Location
Villeurbanne, France
Desired salary
Unspecified
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Remote Only / Full Time, Part Time, Contract
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a Senior AI/ML Engineer with over 10 years of combined industry and PhD-level research experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge graphs, computer vision, and generative AI.

I design and deploy production-grade LLM and RAG solutions, including agentic AI platforms, multi-agent workflows, retrieval systems, persistent-memory conversational agents, and MCP-based tool integrations. My work emphasizes modular, reusable components and reliable enterprise deployment.

I have strong hands-on expertise in Python, FastAPI, LangChain, LangGraph, vector databases, model fine-tuning, MLOps, Docker, cloud services, and scalable API development. I also build multimodal pipelines spanning text, image, and video data.

My research background includes graph representation learning, NLP, anomaly detection, recommendations, deep learning, and computer vision. I have delivered high-accuracy classification, segmentation, entity recognition, and retrieval systems in institutional and regulated data environments.

I provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and collaboration with cross-functional remote teams. I currently consult independently with startups and enterprises on agentic AI architecture, RAG systems, LLM deployment, and MLOps.

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Career history

AI Consultant Freelance

I advise startups and enterprises on end-to-end agentic AI strategy, architecture, and production deployment. I design modular AI components and multi-agent retrieval workflows that improve candidate and document retrieval efficiency through vector search.

I build LLM conversational agents with persistent memory, structured logging, and MCP-based tool integrations. I also deliver multimodal AI pipelines, fine-tuned LLM RAG systems, MLOps workflows, and autonomous client solutions using Claude Cowork, OpenClaw, CrewAI, and LangGraph.

AI Research Engineer INSA Lyon

I architected a RAG retrieval system using ChromaDB embeddings for knowledge-graph tasks in a government-funded cross-institutional research environment. The system was containerized with Docker and deployed through Streamlit.

I developed multimodal NLP models for classification, summarization, and generation with over 94% accuracy, fine-tuned BERT for domain tasks, and built named entity recognition models for knowledge-graph construction. I also led work on CNN and OpenCV vision pipelines, YOLO-based segmentation, and generative image systems using GANs, VAEs, and diffusion models.

Knowledge Graph Research Scientist LIRIS

I designed feature-embedding and representation-learning models for multi-domain graph data using AI and NLP techniques. My work included a multi-level graph neural network architecture that outperformed existing approaches by approximately 20%.

I built anomaly detection, content-based recommendation, and predictive analytics models, while automating machine learning training, evaluation, and optimization pipelines. I presented research internationally, led internal knowledge-sharing sessions, and mentored junior researchers during my PhD studies.

Machine Learning Engineer United Nations

In a remote volunteer role, I led development of a real-time pipeline between a public web portal and PostgreSQL, improving operational throughput by 40% in a regulated public-sector environment.

I built a deep learning model to predict COVID-19 spread patterns across countries and visualized results with Plotly and Matplotlib. I collaborated with data science teams on PostgreSQL infrastructure, ML pipeline integration, user-data preprocessing, and statistical reporting.

Junior IT Scientist Federal University of Technology Owerri

I conducted research across web and software development domains, managed complex user data, and prepared data pipelines for analysis. I designed supervised and semi-supervised machine learning models for prediction and classification tasks.

I contributed to a cross-team deep learning model for crop-yield prediction that improved projected crop production outcomes by 35%. This role built my foundations in data processing, applied machine learning, and research-driven software development.

Education

Learning history

Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

PhD, Computer Science

Focused on artificial intelligence, graph representation learning, natural language processing, and deployment of machine learning models for downstream tasks.

Federal University of Technology Owerri

MSc, Information Technology

Graduated with Distinction (5.00/5.00). Focused on supervised and unsupervised machine learning model design for IT optimization.

Federal University of Technology Owerri

BTech, Information Technology

Graduated with First Class Honours (4.50/5.00).

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