My Background
Hi, I'm Mohamed, a 32-year-old mathematician and data enthusiast hailing from Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. I hold a bachelor's degree in Mathematics and a master's degree in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Aix-Marseille University.
Over the years, I've worked across the full data lifecycle, from data collection and processing to analytics and model deployment. My expertise spans machine learning, backend development, database management, API design, cloud computing, and automation. I’m fluent in French and English, with a solid foundation in Spanish, and I combine scientific rigor with hands-on engineering to build scalable, impactful solutions.
Professionally, I’ve contributed to:
- Large-scale invoice automation, dashboarding, and ERP migrations in the healthcare sector.
- Machine learning model development and deployment in real-time environments.
- NLP-based chatbot development with RAG architectures and LLM fine-tuning.
- Matching algorithms and recommendation systems in the travel sector.
- Patent analysis and text mining on large datasets (PATSTAT) in academic research.
Africa is my North Star 🌍
I believe that data can be a powerful lever for structural transformation across the African continent. This conviction guides the long-term direction of my work — whether through the development of data-driven platforms or my contributions to open ecosystems. My goal is to help build robust, local data infrastructures and communities that enable evidence-based decision-making and foster inclusive, sustainable development.
Data Afrique Hub
I co-founded Data Afrique Hub, a community dedicated to transforming Africa through data. Our mission is to promote data literacy, open knowledge, and the strategic use of data to address the continent’s key challenges. We build open-source platforms that make local data accessible and usable, and we organize impactful initiatives such as the DataTour, the Coupe d'Afrique des Nations de Science des Données (a continental data science competition), as well as numerous webinars, hands-on trainings, and mentoring programs focused on data science, machine learning, and data engineering.
By empowering young professionals and students across Africa, we aim to foster a strong, collaborative, and technically skilled data ecosystem.