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Omar Keita
OMAR KEITA
Machine Learning · AI Engineer · Gambia
Open to Work Remote Ready Africa · Global Google Ideathon Winner
Building AI for low-resource African environments.

Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer with hands-on experience in ML modelling, LLMs, NLP, anomaly detection, and multi-agent AI systems. Skilled in end-to-end workflows from data collection to production deployment — building reliable AI solutions for low-resource African environments. Founder of Bantaba AI and MarAcademy.

2025 – Present Nextgen Agency · Kerr Seign, Gambia
AI Engineer
  • Built and orchestrated multi-agent AI systems using CrewAI for business automation.
  • Designed end-to-end workflows for lead generation, sales intelligence, and CRM-linked audits.
  • Integrated agents into backend services (FastAPI, Django, Flask) for seamless production deployment.
May – Jul 2025 Tandika Technologies · Kampala, Uganda
ML Engineer
  • Collected, cleaned, and analysed large educational & financial datasets for student risk flagging and career recommendation models.
  • Designed, trained, and evaluated classification/recommendation models; integrated results into dashboards.
  • Automated end-to-end ETL pipelines — improving data processing efficiency by over 50%.
2024 – 2025 Assutech Ltd · Gambia
ML Engineer
  • Collected and analysed financial data to build ML models for payment systems.
  • Designed and trained fraud detection models.
  • Automated data pipelines to improve reliability and efficiency.
01
EdTech · AI · Mobile
Bantaba AI
Socratic Tutor

Offline-first Socratic AI tutor for African learners. Fine-tuned Qwen3-0.6B on 307 Socratic conversations. 58MB APK, 100% offline on Android, 5–7s response time.

↗ socratic.hx-ai.org
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02
AI · Sales Automation
NextGen
Agentic Flow

AI-powered sales automation platform on CrewAI. Orchestrates agents for lead gen, website audits, and personalised pitches. 87 automated tests, 100% pass rate in production.

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03
🏆 Google Ideathon — Best Proof of Concept
HealthTech · Edge AI
DermaDetect
HexAI

Offline-first mobile app for community health workers to triage skin conditions. Uses on-device MedSigLIP + cloud MedGemma. Recognised at Google-sponsored Data Science for Health Ideathon across Africa.

↗ Google Research Blog
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04
Finance · ML
Smart Waste
Management

ML-powered smart waste management system. Predictive modelling for waste collection optimisation and anomaly detection in waste generation patterns.

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05
PropTech · ML
Real Estate
Price Predictor

Machine learning model for real estate price prediction. Feature engineering on property data, trained regression models, deployed for actionable market insights.

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06
Lead Gen · Hospitality
BookingFlow
Suite

Two-site lead generation system for West African hotels — conversion audit service and 48-hour website builder. CSS art building, animated windows, WhatsApp-integrated forms.

↗ hotels.maracademyai.org
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Status: Open to opportunities  ·  Remote · Africa · Global