CV
Academic CV — Ifeanyi Desmond Dike. PDF available for download above.
Contact Information
| Name | Ifeanyi Desmond Dike |
| Professional Title | AI Engineer & Researcher |
| ifeanyi@ifeanyidike.com | |
| Phone | +2347045477101 |
| Location | Port Harcourt, Rivers State |
| Website | https://ifeanyidike.com |
Professional Summary
AI engineer and applied mathematician. Research focus: conversational AI and speech-language models — turn-taking, multi-speaker dynamics, and evaluation of full-duplex voice AI systems. First Class Honours in Applied Mathematics (GPA 4.63/5.0), four IEEE publications, 8+ years building production AI systems.
Experience
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2025 - Founding AI Engineer
Datastrut AI
Voice AI and RAG systems for the construction industry.
- Migrated voice AI from VAPI to self-hosted Pipecat on Fly.io; improved concurrent call capacity and per-call cost
- Built multi-caller feature (foremen/supervisor collaboration on live AI calls); closed enterprise deal with ICON Mechanical
- RAG system over 1,000+ construction reports; 60% faster decision-making, lookup time 15+ min → under 30 sec
- Multi-tenant vector database with per-client document isolation; serving 10+ companies at 99.9% uptime
- Automated field report processing pipeline; reduced manual data entry by 80%
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2025 - Co-Founder & Lead Developer
Cenphi
AI-powered video testimonial intelligence platform.
- Multimodal pipeline: speech-to-text (Whisper), speaker diarization, sentiment analysis, and highlight extraction over testimonial video
- Dynamic transcript strategy algorithm for story video composition — segment selection optimised over sentiment, topic coverage, and pacing
- Asynchronous processing architecture with artifact lineage tracking for enterprise-scale content workflows
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2024 - Technical Lead
Fynance Hub
Financial services platform, Ontario, Canada (part-time remote).
- AI recommendation system using GPT-4, RAG, and fine-tuning for broker lead management
- AI-powered lead verification system via automated outbound calls; 80%+ lead quality
- Microservices architecture in Golang and Python with gRPC inter-service communication
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2023 - 2024 Senior Software Engineer
Arbor Platform Inc
AI video production platform, New York (remote).
- Integrated LLMs (Claude, OpenAI) into video production workflows; 80% efficiency gain, 60% reduction in production time
- Built text-to-video and audio transcription features; 50% improvement in editing efficiency
- Content studio and B-Roll asset management platform with one-click social distribution
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2020 - 2023 Senior Software Development Engineer
Howdy Learning
Live video learning platform, New York (remote).
- Re-engineered WebSocket infrastructure; CPU usage 400+ Mb/s → under 500 kb/s (99%+ reduction)
- Live video stream platform scaled to 10,000 concurrent connections
- Proprietary chat system (GetStream + WebSockets) serving ~100 communities
- Embeddable video/voice/SSO widget for Thinkific and WordPress
Education
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2013 - 2018 Bachelor of Technology — First Class Honours
Federal University of Technology Akure
Applied Mathematics
- Research: Couette-Poiseuille Reactive Fluid Flow with Variable Thermophysical Properties (nonlinear PDEs, perturbation methods, finite difference numerics)
- Four co-authored IEEE publications
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2026 - MSc (In Progress)
WorldQuant University
Financial Engineering
- Financial Data Science, ML for Finance, NLP for Finance, Alternative Data, Financial Econometrics
Awards
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2017 Gold Medal — National Mathematics Competition for University Students (NAMCUS)
Mathematical Association of Nigeria
First place, national university-level mathematics competition, Nigeria.
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2016 Bronze Medal — National Mathematics Competition for University Students (NAMCUS)
Mathematical Association of Nigeria
Third place, national university-level mathematics competition, Nigeria.
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2018 First Class Honours in Applied Mathematics
Federal University of Technology Akure
GPA 4.63/5.0
Publications
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2018 Fast Prediction of Equivalent Model of Installed Patch Antenna Radiation Pattern
IEEE IEMCON 2018, pp. 286–291
Monday, Li, Raji, Nneji, Dike, Nneji.
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2018 An Improved e-Clearance Management System for Graduating Students in a University Environment
IEEE IEMCON 2018, pp. 74–80
Nneji, Deng, Shakher, Monday, Agomuo, Dike.
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2018 Enhanced Attendance Management System: A Biometrics System of Identification Based on Fingerprint
IEEE IEMCON 2018, pp. 500–505
Monday, Dike, Li, Agomuo, Nneji, Ogungbile.
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2018 Design of an Improved Cost Effective Electronic Locking System
IEEE IEMCON 2018, pp. 493–499
Monday, Li, Nneji, Ukwuoma, Dike, Nneji.
Skills
ML & AI Research: PyTorch, TensorFlow / Keras, HuggingFace Transformers, LLM Fine-tuning, RAG, Voice AI (Pipecat), Speech Processing (Whisper), Vector Databases (Pinecone, Qdrant), scikit-learn, LASSO / Feature Selection, OpenAI API, Claude API, LLaMA, Qwen
Programming: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Golang, Rust, C++
Systems & Deployment: WebSockets / Real-time systems, gRPC, FastAPI, WebRTC, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud Run, Oracle OCI, Fly.io, Heroku, RunPod
Applied Mathematics: PDEs & Numerical Methods, Linear Algebra, Probability & Statistics, Time Series Analysis, Financial Mathematics
Languages
English : Fluent
Igbo : Native speaker
Interests
Research Interests: Conversational AI, Full-Duplex Voice Agents, Speech-Language Models, Turn-Taking, Multi-Speaker Dialogue, Multimodal AI, Temporal Sequence Modeling, Numerical Methods & PDEs, Financial Mathematics