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FireShow
AI-powered fire risk prediction and computer vision detection.
AIComputer VisionConnected SystemsIoT
Working prototype
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Emmanuel Lawal
AI Engineer · Software Engineer · Product Builder. I design and build systems across AI, software and data, from early prototypes to production-oriented implementations.
01 / Biography
Builder first. Close to the problem.
I work on difficult multidisciplinary systems: models that need to hold up outside notebooks, products that must survive unreliable networks, and tools that turn messy data into decisions people can defend.
Polymath is the studio I run for that work. Independent builds, research systems and professional engagements are each labelled honestly — employment is not rebranded as client work, and prototypes are not presented as products.
Based in Lekki, Lagos. Focused on clarity, reliability and measurable impact.
Focus areas
- Machine learning & LLM evaluation
- Product engineering
- Data pipelines & decision systems
- Connected / edge systems
- Infrastructure & deployment
02 / Selected work
Work that shows the range.
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MathQuest
Interactive mathematics learning with AI-assisted practice.
ProductMobile / PWAAIOCR
Live
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Forensys
Anomaly detection and decision support for tax compliance and revenue assurance.
ResearchAnomaly DetectionFinancial SystemsMachine Learning
Research
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Drought Prediction
Spatiotemporal drought forecasting from climate, satellite and soil-moisture data.
ResearchTime SeriesDeep LearningGeospatial ML
Research
View case study 03 / Experience
Professional experience.
Trajectory Labs
LLM Security Red Teamer
- Designed adversarial scenarios to check robustness, safety and recovery from failed steps.
- Shared structured findings to improve trajectory quality and evaluation coverage.
- Tested LLM and agent workflows for weak points in multi-step execution, instruction following and tool use.
Toloka
Data Scientist / ML Engineer
- Led LLM fine-tuning experiments (RL / RLHF) for rare data scenarios and defined evaluation metrics.
- Built a human annotation pipeline for RLHF with verification and compliance, reducing rework by 26%.
- Developed RAG/retrieval stack and evaluation tools; containerised inference for deployment.
Dialectica
Technical Consultant
- Advised on payments integration, payroll options and system architecture.
- Consulted on AI/ML strategy and data governance against business and regulatory needs.
NTS Africa / Dell Technologies
Engineer
- Deployed Dell Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and Disaster Recovery for a major Nigerian financial institution.
- IMAC server deployment for financial and regulatory institutions; on-prem and hybrid deployments.
- Deployed Cyber Recovery Services at a major financial institution.
ALX Africa
Software Engineer → Data Scientist → Mentor
- Implemented Flask APIs, containerised services with Docker/Nginx/Gunicorn for staging and production.
- Designed ETL pipelines and APIs for dashboard reporting under high-traffic scenarios.
- Built and evaluated ML/NLP models; mentored students on Python, ML practice and production readiness.
Pesoka Computers Nigeria
Software Engineer
- Designed ETL pipelines and financial research systems.
- Built monitoring software and front-end dashboards for power plant operations.
- Built fraud detection and loan application scoring for a microfinance product.
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