2012 – Present

Professional Experience

Every role, most recent first, as listed in my CV.

Sep 2023 – Present
Cairo, Egypt
Manager, Data Scientist / Architect
African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank)
- Designed and implemented a medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) on Databricks with Delta Lake and Unity Catalog, the base of the bank's data lakehouse for analytical and operational workloads
- Designed a Master Data Management (MDM) solution that consolidates party data from four enterprise systems (CRM, Core Banking, Treasury Management, ERP) into golden records for institutional counterparties
- Wrote the data architecture documentation for core financial systems: conceptual and logical data models, entity relationship diagrams, data dictionaries and data flows
- Created the enterprise data quality framework, with automated metrics scripted on Databricks that track completeness, consistency, timeliness and accuracy across data domains
- Led the selection and planned implementation of Ataccama as the enterprise data management platform, for data cataloguing and metadata governance
- Built production ETL/ELT pipelines that extract financial data from the Oracle Finacle core banking system and the Calypso treasury management system into PostgreSQL and Delta Lake
- Implemented Change Data Capture (CDC) and real-time streaming between the treasury management systems and the enterprise data warehouse, for near-real-time risk monitoring and analytics
- Used AWS services through the boto3 SDK: S3 for storage, Athena for serverless queries, Lambda for event-driven processing, RDS and Redshift for databases and warehousing, Kinesis for real-time streaming ML pipelines, SageMaker for model training and deployment, and EC2 for compute
- Set up GitHub-based CI/CD pipelines for the data engineering workflows, with version-controlled, reproducible and auditable deployments to development, staging and production
- Administered SAP Datasphere as the enterprise data warehousing platform, integrating structured and unstructured data sources
- Designed and deployed a multi-LLM enterprise chat platform (OpenAI, Claude, LLaMA, Gemini via AWS Bedrock and Databricks) with AI agents and Text-to-SQL, and built RAG pipelines on a FAISS vector store for document search and knowledge retrieval
- Developed predictive analytics applications for real-time financial risk monitoring, counterparty risk scoring and anomaly detection, used by senior decision-makers
- Automated and improved the African Commodity Index and the internal commodity dashboards covering 54 African countries
- Started the revision of the African Commodity Index methodology to align it with international practice
- Built ML and econometric modelling pipelines (Python, PySpark) for trade flow prediction, regional integration patterns and cross-country macroeconomic forecasting with IMF DOTS, UNCTAD and WTO data, using Databricks MLflow and GitHub CI/CD
- Improved research datasets through data quality checks, harmonisation and methodological standardisation, for later econometric and policy analysis
Dec 2024 – May 2025
Remote
Data Engineer
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
- Designed and implemented an automated ETL pipeline on Databricks that processes infrastructure datasets from six countries in several formats (.csv, .xlsx, .gpkg, .tiff)
- Developed a data quality framework with rule-based checks (completeness, consistency, geographic integrity) that produces .csv and .xlsx reports with diagnostics and remediation guidance
- Connected the backend to the CPP toolkit's web interface, so users can upload data, run preprocessing and download reports
- Delivered YAML-based configuration so the pipeline can be moved and extended without code changes, and coordinated testing and deployment in shared compute environments
- Produced a video walkthrough and a technical handover package
Apr 2017 – Sep 2023
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Statistician & Econometrician
International Cocoa Organization (ICCO)
- Designed and maintained a statistical database application, the organisation's central data store for cocoa market information, to simplify reporting and keep data consistent across member countries
- Built forecasting models (ARIMA, VAR, VECM) to project global supply, demand and price trends in the cocoa economy for ICCO member countries and stakeholders
- Wrote and contributed to the Monthly Market Reports and the Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics
- Led annual stock surveys across European warehouses to estimate regional and global end-of-season cocoa bean stocks
- Collected, validated and harmonised global cocoa market data from futures markets, national statistics and trade data, applying data quality standards
- Carried out econometric analyses of price volatility, supply and demand imbalances and trade flows to support policy recommendations
May 2023 – Aug 2023
Remote
Researcher (Data Scientist / Statistician)
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
- Designed multi-country surveys (Nigeria, Colombia, Iraq, Lake Chad Basin) and their data structure for the MEAC disarmament and reintegration research project
- Programmed and managed digital data collection in SurveyCTO with real-time quality control and validation rules, and worked with field teams on data consistency
- Led data cleaning, harmonisation and multivariate statistical analysis in R and STATA on post-conflict transition outcomes
- Delivered interactive dashboards and visualisations (Power BI) for stakeholders, in line with UN data governance and protection standards
Apr 2022 – Nov 2022
Remote
Data Analyst Consultant
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
- Wrote reproducible R scripts and R Markdown reports to analyse Migrant Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) data across 8 West African countries
- Conducted impact evaluation analyses on migration in Guinea, The Gambia, Nigeria and Senegal
- Documented and automated the analysis workflows so later assessments can reuse them
Dec 2016 – Feb 2017
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
KoboToolBox Consultant
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- Designed and implemented a digital data collection system in KoboToolBox for field operations and monitoring of refugee programmes
- Trained field staff on online data collection tools and supported the move from paper forms to digital collection
- Digitised all existing UNHCR Côte d'Ivoire data collection instruments and provided technical guidance on data integrity and reporting consistency
Aug 2016 – Apr 2017
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Monitoring & Evaluation Manager
Barry-Callebaut (SACO)
- Designed and managed the geotraceability data collection system for the Cocoa Horizons programme, from field surveys to dashboards
- Maintained master data for farmer organisations, and defined and monitored KPIs through dashboards
- Delivered a full monitoring and evaluation framework: data structure, survey design, field execution, impact evaluation protocols and progress tracking
- Conducted fieldwork on cocoa demonstration plots and fermentation practices to evaluate agronomic innovations
Jul 2016
Mali
Consultant
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
- Ran hands-on training for multidisciplinary research staff on Open Data Kit (ODK) and CSPro for digital survey design and data collection
- Introduced participants to R and STATA for analysing experimental and survey data
- Delivered practical case exercises on data analysis and data management
Nov 2015 – Jul 2016
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Monitoring & Evaluation Officer
Family Health International (FHI360)
- Designed evaluation analysis plans and wrote STATA scripts to automate data processing across several public health projects
- Contributed to four impact evaluation protocols and co-authored a peer-reviewed article on adolescent behavioural health
- Drafted the statistical sections of research protocols, study reports and manuscripts, and provided statistical support for monitoring and evaluation
Jun 2013 – Oct 2015
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Data Manager
International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF)
- Designed and implemented monitoring and evaluation data systems for agroforestry research projects, with relational databases (Access, PostgreSQL) to track performance indicators
- Conducted 10+ household studies (baselines, midterms, endlines) across West Africa, and moved data collection from paper to Open Data Kit
- Automated data analysis and reporting with R, Excel and Access, and trained research teams in Kenya and Côte d'Ivoire on data quality
- Managed experimental and survey datasets and ran statistical analyses in R and STATA for peer-reviewed research
Nov 2012 – Jun 2013
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Data Manager
Programme ANRS Coopération Côte d'Ivoire (PAC-CI)
- Harmonised 16 epidemiological datasets from 8 West African countries for the IeDEA West Africa consortium's HIV/AIDS research
- Automated reporting of key project indicators with custom SQL and VBA scripts
- Ran data quality, validation and consistency checks before submission to the regional hub in Bordeaux, France

Manager, Data Scientist / Architect

Data Engineer

Statistician & Econometrician

Researcher (Data Scientist / Statistician)

Data Analyst Consultant

KoboToolBox Consultant

Monitoring & Evaluation Manager

Consultant

Monitoring & Evaluation Officer

Data Manager

Data Manager