AI Engineer

Hey!
This is Patience.

I'm an Electronic and Computer Engineering student at JKUAT building AI applications, RAG systems, and robust software solutions. I focus on writing clean, modular code and solving real-world problems.

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Background

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)

B.S. Electronic and Computer Engineering • Expected June 2029

Relevant Coursework: Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures, Algorithms, Software Engineering Principles.

Tech Stack

Languages

Python C++ HTML5 CSS3

Frameworks & AI

LangChain Streamlit Pydantic ChromaDB REST APIs

Tools & Development

Git / GitHub Actions VS Code Code::Blocks Prompt Engineering

Featured Engineering

RestoGuide AI

Python • LangChain • ChromaDB • Streamlit

Designed a domain-specific Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) assistant for querying restaurant standard operating procedures and kitchen workflows with accurate contextual retrieval.

Impact: Enforced strict semantic chunking and source grounding, effectively mitigating AI hallucination in procedural lookups.
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Social Sentinel

Python • AI Security • Open-Source

Contributed to an open-source security intelligence utility engineered to identify phishing attempts and detect social engineering patterns in communication payloads.

Impact: Contributed to the modular ingestion pipeline and detection datasets for high-confidence classification.
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Personal Finance Management System

C++ • OOP • File I/O

Developed an object-oriented financial management console tool with structured transaction ledgering, budget categorization, and persistent data storage.

Impact: Implemented encapsulated class hierarchies and robust input validation for deterministic, low-overhead execution.
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