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Philip AdzanoukpeSoftware & AI Engineer

Building intelligent systems that drive real-world impact

8+ years building scalable backend systems and AI-driven solutions. Honorary Visiting Fellow at City, St George's, University of London.

About Me

Software EngineeringMeets AI Innovation

Philip Adzanoukpe

Experienced Software and Machine Learning Engineer with over eight years of expertise in building scalable backend systems and AI-driven solutions. A recent recipient of the Excellence in STEM Achievement Award 2024 and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at City, St George's, University of London, with a Master's degree in Data Science (Distinction). Skilled in applying software engineering and AI to develop practical, high-impact solutions that drive value for businesses and consumers.

I specialise in architecting and implementing advanced backend infrastructures, leading development teams, and collaborating across diverse business domains. My work spans from building no-code AI platforms to integrating ML models into production systems serving millions of users.

As a speaker at AI conferences and an Honorary Visiting Fellow at City, St George's, University of London, I'm passionate about sharing knowledge and driving innovation in the AI ecosystem.

Machine Learning & AI

Building production-ready ML pipelines, deep learning models, computer vision systems, and generative AI solutions

AI Agents & Chatbots

Designing intelligent conversational agents and autonomous AI systems that solve complex tasks

Scalable Backend Systems

Architecting microservices and event-driven systems that handle millions of requests

Business Automation

Automating workflows and processes using AI to drive efficiency and business value

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies I work with

languages

PythonGoJavaScriptTypeScriptPHP

AI & ML

PyTorchTensorFlowScikit-LearnLangChainMLflowOpenCV

frameworks

DjangoFastAPIFlaskPySparkPandasReactNext.js

cloud

AWSGCPSageMakerKubernetesDockerTerraform

databases

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBDynamoDBRedisNeo4j

Other tools

KafkaRabbitMQSQSgRPC
What I've Built

Project Highlights

Key projects showcasing end-to-end problem solving, from identifying challenges to delivering measurable impact

Epigos AI – No-Code Vision Platform

Founder Project2023
Problem: Businesses lack ML expertise to deploy custom computer vision solutions.
Solution: Built an end-to-end no-code platform enabling businesses to train and deploy vision AI models without writing code. Includes automated training pipelines, model monitoring, and one-click deployment.
Impact: Deployed in agribusiness & healthcare pilots. Automated model training reduces deployment time from weeks to hours.
PythonPyTorchFastAPIAWSSageMakerOpenCVReact

Smart Payment Routing Engine

Gr4vy2022
Problem: Payment failures and latency due to suboptimal PSP routing decisions.
Solution: Built an intelligent payment routing service that automatically routes transactions to optimal Payment Service Providers based on transaction context, user demographics, and location.
Impact: Reduced payment latency through geo-based traffic routing. Improved transaction success rates for enterprise clients.
PythonGoFastAPIPostgreSQLGCPAWS

ML-Powered Video Recommendations

Triller2020
Problem: Users struggled to discover relevant content among millions of videos on the platform.
Solution: Integrated ML models for personalized video recommendations and built real-time video classification and analytics microservices.
Impact: Enhanced user engagement for millions of users. Enabled content discovery at scale with high-performance ML inference.
PythonTensorFlowOpenCVAWSKafkaKubernetes

Loan Default Risk Prediction

LendInvest2019
Problem: Manual underwriting was slow, inconsistent, and couldn't scale with loan volume.
Solution: Built ML models to predict loan application default risk and estimate completion timelines, integrated into the automated underwriting pipeline.
Impact: Automated key decisions in the underwriting process, enabling faster loan processing and consistent risk assessment.
PythonScikit-learnPySparkPandasMySQLKubernetes
Career Timeline

Work Experience

10+ years building software across fintech, social media, payments, and AI

Founder & CEO

Epigos AI

May 2023PresentGhana

Building no-code computer vision platform for businesses

PythonFastAPIGoPyTorchAWS+3

Senior Software Engineer

Gr4vy

Jan 2022Apr 2023UK

Building payment infrastructure and routing services

PythonFastAPIGoPostgreSQLDocker+3
Background

Education & Honors

Academic foundation and professional recognition

Education

MSc Data Science

City St George's, University of London

2019 — 2020London, UK
  • Thesis: Evolving State Representation Learning for vision based Deep Reinforcement Learning in autonomous driving environments

BSc Human Biology

University of Cape Coast

2008 — 2012Cape Coast, Ghana
  • Comprehensive undergraduate education in human anatomy, physiology, bioinformatics and biomedical sciences

Honors & Awards

Honorary Visiting Fellow

2025

City, St George's, University of London

Appointed for contributions to AI and machine learning research

Excellence in STEM Achievement Award 2024

2024

City University London

Recognition for outstanding contributions in STEM

Open Source

GitHub Contributions

My coding activity over the past year

What People Say

Testimonials

Feedback from colleagues, managers, and collaborators I've had the pleasure to work with

Having worked with Philip at both Octopus Investments and at LendInvest I can only say good things about him. Philip has a fantastic understanding of what is required from him and the code he writes, both software engineering and machine learning is of an exceptionally high standard. He is hard working, committed and conscientious. Having Philip on our teams brought incredible business value.

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Debra Duggan

IT Data Manager at Capital Group | Ex-LendInvest

I had the pleasure of working with Philip at Octopus, where he was a remote developer working from his home in Ghana. Philip is an extremely talented senior python developer, who is also well versed with database development, as well as devops tasks such as CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes management. He can plan and architect a full backend solution, and work independently to get it done. He also has experience as a lead developer, managing a number of other developers, including code reviews of pull requests. He is friendly, communicative and hard working. I couldn't recommend him more highly.

MS

Morgan Sowden

CoFounder & CTPO at journalist.net at Ex-Facebook | Ex-Octopus

10+

Years Experience

20+

Projects Delivered

100%

Client Satisfaction

Let's Build Something Great

Ready to Start YourNext Project?

I'm always excited to work on challenging projects that push the boundaries of what's possible. Whether you need a scalable backend system, ML infrastructure, or AI-driven automations — let's talk.

Typical response time: within 24 hours