Sidney Ochieng
Chief Technology Officer
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolSidney Ochieng is a Machine Learning Engineer with 11 years of experience building production-grade analytics and ML platforms across fintech, supply chain, and civic tech. He has led teams as CTO and Lead Data Scientist to design backend infrastructures (Python, Postgres, Redis) and company-wide data standards that cut deployment time by 80% and improved retention through mentorship. At Branch International he continues to apply pragmatic ML to real-world products, backed by a track record of shipping end-to-end systems from data pipelines to scoring models. Based in Nairobi, he blends technical leadership with storytelling and a refusal to accept mediocrity, bringing both product-minded rigor and human-centered insights to data-driven decisions. An MS in Management complements his hands-on engineering background, enabling him to translate complex analytics into actionable strategy.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Namununga SchoolMaseno SchoolBsc Computer Science and Technology, Computer Software Engineering, Bsc Computer Science and Technology, Computer Software Engineering at Maseno UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Management, Master of Science - MS, Management at Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignSt. Mary's School Nairobi
Kiswahili, English
Stackoverflow
6,837reputation
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Github Skills (88)
python10
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youtube10
package10
test-data10
printing9
faker9
dependency-free9
testing9
dependency-management9
packaging9
dependency-manager9
docker-compose8
jwt8
python-packaging8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AfricasVoices/Project-MAAP-Somalia
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
Monitoring and Accountability to Affected Populations (MAAP)
Contributions:32 PRs, 99 pushes, 20 branches in 3 months
monitoringaffectedmaapaccountability
princelySid/yt-bot
Nov 2020 - Mar 2026
Contributions:5 PRs, 21 pushes, 5 branches in 5 years 4 months
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