Salawu Taiwo

Nigeria ยท mrdeveloper78@gmail.com

Experience

Junior Back-end Engineer

Tog Lab
June 2023 - Present
Remote

Back-end Engineer Intern

Tog Lab

  • Using NestJS, I am part of a team creating REST APIs for a platform that simplifies the building and managing of professional-looking websites.
  • Designing and implementing PostgreSQL database schema to support efficient data retrieval and storage.
  • Caching to improve performance and reduce database load using Redis.
  • Documenting endpoints using Swagger.
  • Working with front-end developers to integrate APIs into web applications.

August 2022 - May 2023
Remote

Content writer/technical writer/editor

stakeneon writing inc

June 2022 - September 2022
Remote

Machine Learning Intern

Rural Farmers Hub

  • Made farmland boundary annotations using geospatial imagery on Google Earth during the data-gathering phase for an automatic farm boundary detection project.
  • Completed satellite imagery preprocessing workflow in a computer vision team using Python. Imageries were gathered and preprocessed to feed into a convolutional neural network model for digital soil mapping of some key soil nutrients using geospatial data.

August 2020 - October 2020
Remote

Projects

Toyota Classifier
Deployed web app for Toyota model classifier project. (Credit: Abiodun Allison)

Melanoma Detection Using EfficientNet+BiLSTM

Python, Tensorflow, Tensorflow Lite, Image clasification, Streamlit

Trained and deployed an hybrid pretrained EfficientNetB6 and Bidirectional LSTM model to predict whether the lesion in given image is benign or malignant. Dataset used was obtained from The International Skin Imaging Collaboration (ISIC) 2020 Challenge dataset.

August 2021

Fuel Efficiency Prediction

Python, Data cleaning, EDA, XGBoost

Implemented gradient boosting regression model and neural network to predict vehicles' miles per gallon (MPG) values, which is the primary measurement of a car's fuel efficiency. Auto MPG dataset was used which consists of a description of many automobiles in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

August 2021

Stroke Prediction

Python, Gradient boosting, Data storytelling, Streamlit, Heroku

Explored stroke prediction dataset and implemented a regularizing gradient boosting model to predict the likelihood of a patient having a stroke or not considering input parameters like gender, age, various diseases, and smoking status. The model was deployed using Streamlit built web app deployed on Heroku.

July 2021

Toyota Model Classifier

Python, Image preprocessing, Fast.ai, Streamlit

Built a simple web app that classifies different Toyota brands using Streamlit. Images for different Toyota models were gotten using Bing search API. After image cleaning and pre-processing, a pre-trained Resnet101 model was implemented classify the images using FastAI.

Febuary 2021

Analysis and Prediction of Health Insurance Subscription in Nigeria

Python, Data cleaning, EDA, Streamlit, Heroku

Created and deployed a web app that predicts whether an individual would take up a health insurance policy or not leveraging a machine learning classification model. Factors that most likely influence taking up a health insurance policy by an individual were also investigated. Dataset used was the Individual Recode section of the 2018 Nigerian Demographic and Health Survey DHS dataset.

November 2020

Volunteering/social media manager

AI+ Volunteer Tutor

Data Science Nigeria AI Club for School

Through hands-on learning and class challenges/assignments, I'm training twelve primary school students (Grades 4-6) in programming using Scratch. Completed a catch-an-apple Scratch project with the students, and we are working on more projects.

September 2021 - July 2022
Lagos, Nigeria

social media manager

freelance social media manager

1. Strategy Development: Developing and implementing a comprehensive media strategy aligned with the company's goals and target audience.
This involves setting objectives,defining key performance indicators (KPIs), and outlining tactics to achieve desired outcomes.

2. Content Creation and Curation: Creating engaging and relevant content for various social media platforms, including text, images, videos, and graphics.
This may involve writing copy, designing visuals, and curating content from relevant sources to maintain a consistent presence and engage the audience.
August 2021 - September 2021
Remote

AI Invasion Facilitator

Data Science Nigeria

Volunteered as a tutor for the AI Invasion program, a 5-day program to introduce participants to core concepts of Machine Learning, and hands-on practice of solving Machine Learning problems using Python. Introduced participants to Machine Learning hackathons and we participated in a 4-day Kaggle hackathon.

June 2021, May 2022
Lagos, Nigeria

Education

Software Engineer Career Progression Program

Elev8 Education | Microsoft
April 2022 - July 2022
Remote

AWS re/Start Program Learner

Lonadek Inc | AWS
September 2021 - December 2021
Lagos, Nigeria

University of Ibadan

M.SC. in physics
Machine Learning with Applications in Agriculture

Abstract: Current rapid development in Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a vast selection of high-quality tools to solve complex problems in more efficient ways than before. As a consequence, many fields of science and engineering are starting to explore AI tools, especially Deep Learning (DL) models for computer vision, audio and video understanding, speech recognition and decision making. In this project, we studied a type of deep learning model - Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), starting with a basic Machine Learning algorithm - Logistic Regression, moving on to building blocks of Neural Networks and method of training and optimising neural network models. We then implemented three different CNN architectures; a base model, VGG16 and ResNext-50, to classify different plant diseases using healthy and diseased leaf images. The best performing model was ResNext-50 with 98% accuracy.

2018 - 2021
Ibadan, Nigeria

Ladoke Akintola University Of Technology

B.TECH. in physics
Comparison of Simplex and Revised Simplex Methods in the Solution of a Linear Programming Problem
2011 - 2015
Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Nigeria

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools

Certifications and Awards