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Damilola Onasanya

AI and software engineer

I build AI systems for settings where mistakes have consequences, from clinical portals to local LLM agents.

  • First Class Honours
  • 1st place, RUNCHOW Hackathon (solo)
  • Google DeepMind x Cactus Hackathon participant
  • Production healthcare AI

Projects

Selected work

Three flagship projects with case studies, then the rest of what I am building. Each case study lists its limits.

Smaller projects

Timeline

Experience

Production work in healthcare and freelance AI, alongside leadership roles at UWE Bristol.

  1. May 2026 to present

    Full-Stack AI and Systems Engineer

    Public Health Bureau

    Building sovereign, NDPR-compliant clinical AI systems for clinicians across Nigeria.

    • Next.js (TypeScript) and NestJS administrative and compliance portals with human-in-the-loop review. Every clinician training credential gets manual clinical advisor sign-off.
    • Optimised local RAG search with Ollama, Qdrant and a live PubMed API fallback, for offline-resilient access to medical guidelines.
    • Refined data mining on anonymised EMR histories to calculate treatment response deltas.
    • Built a local de-identification pre-processor that redacts patient PII before any external API routing. Zero sensitive data leakage and 100% NDPR compliance.
    • Python and Node.js end-to-end integration tests with a 100% pass rate.
  2. Aug 2025 to present

    AI, Data and Software Developer (Freelance)

    Fiverr

    10+ clients across e-commerce, professional services and retail, averaging a 40% productivity improvement per client.

    • Sentiment analysis engine that made complaint response 60% faster.
    • Sales forecasting model that improved inventory accuracy by 35%.
    • Recommendation engine that delivered a 28% conversion uplift.
    • AI assistant that automates 80% of customer enquiries.
  3. 2025 to 2026

    President

    AI Innovators Society, UWE Bristol

    Led an 8-person committee and 100+ student members through hackathons, workshops and speaker events.

    • Ran AI hackathons, workshops and speaker events for 100+ student members.
  4. April 2026

    Tech Volunteer

    Tech Nexus / Maendeleo Africa Fellowship Institute

    Designed and delivered a one-month programme on tech fundamentals, data literacy and cybersecurity.

    • Taught 20-25 students with 100% programme completion.
  5. Sep 2025 to May 2026

    Student Career Coach

    UWE Bristol Careers Service

    Coached students on career planning across software engineering, data and AI roles.

  6. Sep 2024 to May 2025

    PAL Leader and Student Mentor

    UWE Bristol

    Weekly Python and data structures and algorithms sessions for first-year students.

    • Student engagement up 30%.
  7. Oct 2023 to May 2024

    Computer Science Department Representative

    UWE Bristol

    Represented 200+ CS students and turned their feedback into curriculum and support policy proposals.

Toolkit

Skills

Select a skill to see where I have used it.

Languages

Agentic AI and LLMs

ML and data

Full-stack

MLOps and cloud

Security and compliance

Recognition

Achievements and leadership

Hackathon results, society leadership and student roles.

Background

About

I build AI for settings where mistakes have consequences. At the Public Health Bureau I build clinical AI portals with human review built in, local retrieval for offline-resilient access to medical guidelines, and a de-identification layer that strips patient details before anything leaves the device.

Before that I shipped AI tools for freelance clients. A sentiment engine cut complaint response time by 60%. An assistant automated 80% of customer enquiries. My dissertation asked whether an ML ensemble and a local LLM agent beat either one alone.

I am working toward an MSc in Information Technology at UWE Bristol. I am looking for graduate roles and internships in software engineering, AI and ML engineering, and data science, ideally with teams working on problems that matter.

Study

Education

Get in touch

Contact

Graduate roles, internships and collaborations on AI and software systems.