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Dr. Femi Adesina
AI Engineering
Remote
Currently: ex-Microsoft
Specialism: LLM deployment, MLOps
Mentors · Cohort 01
Practitioners. Not professors.
Every mentor on this list is currently shipping production AI or security work,they teach what they did this week, not what they read in a textbook.
CL
Catherine Lapointe
Machine Learning
Remote
Currently: ex-Element AI
Specialism: Model evaluation, MLE
TB
Tunde Bamidele
Cloud Security
Lagos, NG
Currently: Veenode Agency
Specialism: AWS, zero-trust
AO
Adaeze Okafor
AI Engineering
Lagos, NG
Currently: ex-Andela
Specialism: NLP in production
KM
Kwame Mensah
Networking
Accra, GH
Currently: MTN Ghana
Specialism: Network design
ZN
Zanele Ndlovu
SOC Analysis
Johannesburg
Currently: Standard Bank
Specialism: Detection eng.
OA
Olatunde Adeyemi
Ethical Hacking
Abuja, NG
Currently: Pentestify
Specialism: Web app pentest
ME
Mariam El-Sayed
GRC
Cairo, EG
Currently: PwC
Specialism: SOC-2, ISO-27001
DM
Daniel Mbeki
Digital Forensics
Cape Town, ZA
Currently: Investigations Co.
Specialism: Memory forensics
AD
Aïsha Diop
Machine Learning
Dakar, SN
Currently: Orange Labs
Specialism: Computer vision
SK
Samuel Karanja
Cloud Security
Nairobi, KE
Currently: Safaricom
Specialism: GCP, IAM
TM
Thandi Mahlangu
AI Engineering
Pretoria, ZA
Currently: DeepMind RSA
Specialism: RL, RLHF