Opeyemi Bamigbade
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Opeyemi Bamigbade

AI Systems Engineer | Multimodal AI | PhD Candidate

Open to AI Systems & Platform Roles

About Me

Designs and builds scalable AI systems across model, runtime, and deployment layers.

Applies research-informed approaches to architecting modular AI solutions.

Focused on performance, reliability, and efficient inference at scale.

Applied AI Research

  • Systematically evaluates model behavior, generalization boundaries, and failure dynamics.
  • Architects model-centric AI systems to expand capability with parameter-efficient adaptation.
  • Translates research advances into modular, deployable components designed for scalable integration.
  • Focus: Model Architecture · Representation Learning · Failure Diagnostics · Capability Scaling

AI Systems Engineering

  • Engineers performance-aware workflow optimized for throughput, stability, and resource efficiency.
  • Designs modular system components that enable reliable model deployment and experimentation
  • Optimizes compute, memory, and data movement under real-world constraints.
  • Focus : Inference Engineering · Training Workflows · Systems Optimization · Performance Infrastructure

Projects

VAAS system
Inference Systems Vision Transformers Interpretability

VAAS: Inference-First Vision Anomaly Scoring System

Problem: Detect semantic and structural manipulation beyond pixel-level artefacts.
System: Dual-module (ViT attention + SegFormer consistency) producing interpretable anomaly maps and continuous scores.
Deployment: Inference-first library with modular APIs for integration into inspection and forensics pipelines, with versioned Hugging Face model releases enabling reproducible loading, evaluation, and downstream deployment. Designed for reliable integration into real-world forensic system pipelines.
Performance: Delivers reliable detection and localisation of image manipulations, achieving ~94.9% detection accuracy and ~91.1% localisation precision with stable performance across varying input conditions.
OpsMate system
Agent Systems LLM Orchestration Stateful Runtime

OpsMate: Stateful Agent Runtime and Orchestration System

Problem: Enable reliable multi-step, context-aware agent execution beyond stateless prompt-response interactions.
System: Runtime-driven agent system combining session-aware memory, execution orchestration, and MCP-based tool routing.
Deployment: Container-ready FastAPI backend with persistent sessions, authenticated access, and modular tool integration.Container-ready FastAPI backend with persistent sessions, authenticated access, and modular tool integration.
Performance: Delivers reliable multi-step execution with consistent tool behaviour, real-time streaming, low-latency responses, and stable state persistence under iterative workloads.
ML Containers
ML Systems Model Serving Containerisation

ML in Containers: Reproducible ML Deployment and CI/CD System

Problem: Ensure reproducible training and consistent model serving across heterogeneous environments.
System: Containerised ML workflow combining training, versioned artefacts, and TensorFlow Serving-based inference.
Deployment: CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions enabling automated build, testing, and deployment with consistent execution across environments.
Performance: Guarantees reproducible execution and consistent model behaviour across environments, enabling reliable deployment with minimal configuration drift.
TDD MLOps
MLOps Testing Frameworks ML Reliability

TDD in MLOps: Test-Driven ML System Development Framework

Problem: Lack of deterministic testing in ML systems leads to brittle pipelines, silent failures, and unreliable deployment behaviour.
System: Test-driven ML framework enforcing validation across data, model behaviour, and pipeline execution.
Deployment: Integrated testing workflows within CI/CD pipelines for reproducible validation across environments.
Performance: Reduces silent failures and enforces predictable system behaviour, enabling reliable iteration and stable deployment under continuous updates.

Technical Notes

Agent Learning
Research Note Agentic Workflow LLM Systems

Agent Learning: Execution-Aware Policy Optimization for LLM Tool Systems

Reframes tool orchestration in LLM systems as a learnable policy optimized for execution cost, latency, and constraint satisfaction rather than heuristic control.

ML Systems Note
Technical Note GCP MLOps

Building Production Machine Learning Systems

Explores deployment of scalable, production-grade ML systems using modern MLOps workflows, focusing on system reliability, pipeline design, and cloud-native integration.

Research Publications

VAAS paper

VAAS: Vision-Attention Anomaly Scoring for Image Manipulation Detection in Digital Forensics

Introduces Vision-Attention Anomaly Scoring (VAAS), a dual-module framework combining global attention-based anomaly estimation in Vision Transformers with patch-level self-consistency scoring for fine-grained anomaly localization.
Formalizes attention-driven representation analysis as a structured anomaly detection mechanism, advancing modular and scalable approaches to interpretable vision-based anomaly modeling.

CEmbed paper

Improving Image Embeddings with Colour Features in Indoor Scene Geolocation

Introduces a colour-aware representation learning architecture integrating dominant colour descriptors and multi-space colour statistics with learned visual embeddings to enhance indoor scene understanding.
Establishes explicit colour modeling as a complementary signal to learned representations and analyzes the behavior of classification and metric learning objectives under colour-augmented settings, informing architectural and training design decisions.

Systematic Review

Computer Vision for Multimedia Geolocation: A Systematic Literature Review

Synthesizes 123 studies on computer vision and AI approaches to multimedia geolocation, examining architectural trends, dataset design, evaluation protocols, and application contexts across visual geolocation systems.
Identifies methodological gaps, recurring limitations, and emerging design patterns, outlining open challenges and future directions with emphasis on robustness, generalization, and real-world deployment constraints.

Experience

AI Engineer

Curacel

Dec 2021–2023Hybrid

  • Led the design and delivery of the company’s first production AI system for vehicle insurance claim automation, applying computer vision techniques including object detection, damage localization, and image-based classification to automate assessment workflows and downstream decision systems.
  • Engineered and operationalized DProcessor, an OCR-driven document processing pipeline that increased claims throughput by 91% while improving reliability and operational stability.
  • Architected scalable training and inference workflows spanning model development, evaluation, optimization, and cloud deployment. Designed modular ML services on AWS, built performance-aware inference pipelines, integrated vector search into decision systems, and optimized compute, memory, and data flow across the stack.
  • Established production-grade ML practices and contributed to system-level design decisions around deployment architecture and performance trade-offs.

AI & Backend Engineer

Philanthrolab

Dec 2021–2022Remote

  • Designed and deployed ML-driven personalization systems for social and human services platforms, delivering NLP-based eligibility scoring and recommendation models integrated into live application workflows.
  • Built backend services supporting model training, evaluation, and inference, implementing data pipelines, user behavior tracking systems, and API-driven microservices connecting ML systems to production applications.
  • Optimized system performance, data flow, and operational reliability across the ML lifecycle to ensure stable, production-grade deployment.

Machine learning Engineer

Clinify

May 2020–2021Remote

  • Designed and deployed machine learning systems for healthcare applications, spanning model development, evaluation, and integration within production environments.
  • Collaborated with product and engineering teams to translate research-driven concepts into reliable, deployable ML components integrated into application workflows.
  • Contributed to system-level validation of ML-backed services and supported backend integration through API-based systems, ensuring reliability across data pipelines and production workflows

Machine learning Engineer

Data Science Nigeria

June 2019 - 2021On-site

  • Developed applied ML and NLP systems including ranking models, conversational agents, and computer vision pipelines for real-world applications.
  • Designed and deployed resource-efficient models for constrained environments, including edge deployments on hardware such as Raspberry Pi under strict compute and memory limits.
  • Built modular ML services for client integration and evaluated system trade-offs across performance, accuracy, and deployment constraints in production environments.

Skills

Core Languages & ML Frameworks

  • Python · Go
  • PyTorch · TensorFlow
  • CUDA

Modeling & Representation Learning

  • Multimodal & Vision–Language Systems
  • Representation & Contrastive Learning
  • Attention Mechanisms & Transformers
  • Self-Supervised & Few-Shot Learning

Training & Inference Systems

  • Distributed Training (DeepSpeed)
  • Mixed Precision & Quantization
  • Inference Optimisation (ONNX · TensorRT · TVM)
  • Sparse Tensor Computation

Systems & Platform Engineering

  • Agent Runtime & Orchestration (MCP)
  • FastAPI · Backend Systems Design
  • Containerisation & Reproducible Pipelines
  • CI/CD & Deployment Workflows

Education

PhD in Computer Science (in progress)

South East Technology University

2022 – Present Ireland

Develops foundational expertise in multimodal AI systems, spanning representation learning, robustness, and scalable model design. Research focuses on controllable representation learning and system-level evaluation for real-world visual reasoning, including anomaly detection and scene understanding.

B.Sc. Systems Engineering (First-Class Honours)

University of Lagos

2014 – 2018 Nigeria

Developed early foundations in systems design and applied machine learning. Final-year project: Built a machine learning–driven SaaS platform for automated Gleason score prediction, covering model development, validation, and deployment within a healthcare decision-support system.

  • President, Artificial Intelligence Club
  • Ambassador, Zindi Africa

Peer Reviewing

Peer reviewer for AI, Machine Learning, and Computer Vision venues, assessing architectural design, methodological rigor, empirical validation, and reproducibility.
Focuses on representational innovation and system-level implications with emphasis on technical soundness and practical viability.

Consulting

Tegus - Expert Advisor

Vector Search Embedding Systems Indexing Strategies

Provides expert advisory support to startups on vector search architectures and similarity-based retrieval systems. Advises on embedding design, indexing strategies, and trade-offs across modern vector databases, balancing performance, scalability, and deployment constraints.

MLOps Community - Technical Author

TDD Reproducible Pipelines Model Lifecycle Testing

Authors a technical series on Test-Driven Development for ML systems, outlining structured approaches to reliability, reproducibility, and lifecycle validation. Combines conceptual guidance with implementation-level examples to formalize disciplined engineering practices in modern ML workflows.

Datakirk - Technical Instructor

Applied Machine Learning Model Development Workflows

Delivered expert-led training on data science and machine learning for technical practitioners. Covered model development workflows, applied learning paradigms, and engineering best practices for reliable and production-aware ML systems.

🗄️ Archive

A collection of early projects, certifications, experiments, and legacy work.