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Senior AI Voice Agent Engineer
Nexar • Temps plein
May 2020 - Present • 6 yrs 2 mos
Lead engineer responsible for designing and deploying AI-powered voice agent systems for enterprise clients across fintech, insurance, and SaaS industries. Managed end-to-end delivery — from architecture design to post-launch optimization
AI Automation Engineer
Synapse • Freelance
Sep 2019 - Present • 6 yrs 10 mos
First in-house AI hire at a digital agency serving African fintech and e-commerce clients. Built the agency's first conversational AI product line, which became a core revenue stream within 18 months of launch. Architected the agency's internal AI automation framework, reducing manual client onboarding time from 5 days to under 8 hours Built IVR-to-AI migration pipelines for 3 Nigerian fintech clients transitioning from legacy call systems to intelligent voice agents Developed chatbot-to-voice handoff systems that allowed users to start interactions on WhatsApp and escalate to a live AI voice call Trained and fine-tuned NLP models for Nigerian English and Pidgin language patterns to improve speech recognition accuracy Launched a reusable voice agent template library that cut new client delivery time by 70%, later adopted across all agency projects
Conversational AI Developer
Voice Express • Freelance
Aug 2022 - Aug 2023 • 1 yr
agencies. Focused on natural language understanding, dialogue flow design, and telephony integration across multiple client verticals. Designed multi-turn conversation flows for real estate agencies, handling property enquiries, viewing bookings, and buyer qualification automatically Built an outbound AI cold-calling system for a fintech startup that contacted 1,000+ leads per day with a 34% positive response rate Integrated Retell AI and Deepgram STT for low-latency, high-accuracy speech-to-text pipelines on inbound call systems Created escalation logic and live agent handoff protocols, reducing dropped calls by 45% for a client contact center Delivered full technical documentation and video walkthroughs for every deployment, enabling client teams to self-manage post-handover