I am Ugo Nwachuku, a software engineer and data scientist with over 7 years of experience in machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, and application architecture. I excel at turning complex data problems into actionable insights and client-ready solutions. I am passionate about collaborating with teams to develop solutions that drive business success. Throughout my career, I have worked on diverse projects ranging from fraud detection models to predictive analytics and customer behavior modeling. I take pride in effectively communicating technical results to stakeholders and enjoy taking ownership of my work from data engineering to production deployment.

Ugo Nwachuku

I am Ugo Nwachuku, a software engineer and data scientist with over 7 years of experience in machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, and application architecture. I excel at turning complex data problems into actionable insights and client-ready solutions. I am passionate about collaborating with teams to develop solutions that drive business success. Throughout my career, I have worked on diverse projects ranging from fraud detection models to predictive analytics and customer behavior modeling. I take pride in effectively communicating technical results to stakeholders and enjoy taking ownership of my work from data engineering to production deployment.

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I am Ugo Nwachuku, a software engineer and data scientist with over 7 years of experience in machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, and application architecture. I excel at turning complex data problems into actionable insights and client-ready solutions. I am passionate about collaborating with teams to develop solutions that drive business success.

Throughout my career, I have worked on diverse projects ranging from fraud detection models to predictive analytics and customer behavior modeling. I take pride in effectively communicating technical results to stakeholders and enjoy taking ownership of my work from data engineering to production deployment.

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Language

English
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Work Experience

Data Analyst at Techpro
August 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025
Led product efforts for the Casino and Sports department by creating insights into customer behavior on a weekly, monthly, and annual basis. Focused on customer behavior modeling, promotional impact analysis, and fraud detection to assist business decision-making. Developed dashboards and custom metrics in Tableau and SQL to track player churn, bonus playback, generosity efficiency, identify high-value customers, detect abuse of free play, and measure marketing cohort engagement. Translated raw transactional data into actionable insights to improve retention, revenue, and operational strategy.
AI Engineer at NetraScale
August 1, 2023 - January 31, 2024
Collaborated with account executives to develop predictive solutions aligned with business needs. Engineered datasets and built models predicting fraud in financial transactions, achieving 85% accuracy on test data, forming the backend of the fraud detection system. Communicated model impacts effectively to leadership, securing approval for production deployment.
Software Engineer - Data Science at Microsoft
July 1, 2022 - February 28, 2023
Advanced the MSN news articles lifetime prediction from rule-based to machine learning, increasing user activity by 15%. Owned model performance monitoring and comparison using daily scraped server data displayed in Power BI dashboards. Conducted in-depth analysis for dataset construction and integrated cloud-native applications for internal human data labeling. Documented best practices for data analysis and model development for future projects.
Data Scientist at Harvard University Graduate School of Education
June 1, 2019 - August 31, 2019
Prepared 1 terabyte of video coverage data representing 12 students in a makerspace setting over 3 months. Removed data duplications using pandas and numpy by writing custom algorithms, enabling supervised learning applications on the dataset.
Data Scientist at University of Lagos
January 1, 2018 - August 31, 2018
Led research on comparative performance of parametric and non-parametric models on a medical dataset. Published findings and presented at an academic conference. Taught introductory Python programming to students.

Education

Masters of Computer Science at Northeastern University
September 1, 2020 - June 30, 2022
Post Baccalaureate Computer Science at Tufts University
September 1, 2018 - August 31, 2019
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at Drexel University
September 1, 2013 - September 30, 2016

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Gaming, Education, Media & Entertainment

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