Summary
Roland Abi is a results-driven Senior Data Scientist who brings four-plus years of experience across public health, healthcare technology, and digital inclusion to deliver data-driven decisions. He designs end-to-end data solutions—from scalable pipelines in Google BigQuery to interactive dashboards built with R Shiny and Power BI—enabling stakeholders to act on complex insights. He applies advanced ML and DL techniques, including CNNs and transfer learning on satellite imagery, to quantify and accelerate digital inclusion initiatives. His practical MLOps—Docker, Kubernetes, and model-logging with Git—ensures reproducible, production-ready deployments. He holds an MS in Data Science from American University, an MS in Biostatistics from the University of Ibadan, and a BS in Statistics and Computer Science from the University of Agriculture, Makurdi, with prior research roles at University College Hospital Ibadan. Currently, he is a Senior Data Scientist at Octane, leveraging healthcare and analytics experience to drive impactful outcomes.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
American University
French, English