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Contact Information

Name Ifeanyi Desmond Dike
Professional Title AI Engineer & Researcher
Email 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

  • 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%
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • 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
  • 2026 -

    MSc (In Progress)
    WorldQuant University
    Financial Engineering
    • Financial Data Science, ML for Finance, NLP for Finance, Alternative Data, Financial Econometrics

Awards

  • 2017
    Gold Medal — National Mathematics Competition for University Students (NAMCUS)
    Mathematical Association of Nigeria

    First place, national university-level mathematics competition, Nigeria.

  • 2016
    Bronze Medal — National Mathematics Competition for University Students (NAMCUS)
    Mathematical Association of Nigeria

    Third place, national university-level mathematics competition, Nigeria.

  • 2018
    First Class Honours in Applied Mathematics
    Federal University of Technology Akure

    GPA 4.63/5.0

Publications

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