MS AI @ CMU AfricaGold Prize - Cohere Expedition Aya

AI Engineer & Tech Entrepreneur

Building AI systems, fintech platforms, and companies solving real problems in Africa. Co-founder of Piaxis Tech, Founder of AI Studio Rwanda. Specializing in LLMs, edge AI, and agentic systems.

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Years Experience

10+

AI Projects

14

Languages Supported

Glorry Sibomana
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EXPERTISE

What I Do

Building end-to-end solutions from AI systems and web platforms to mobile apps. Focused on practical, scalable technology for real-world impact.

AI & Machine Learning

Building LLM applications, RAG pipelines, and vision-language models. Fine-tuning Gemma, Llama, and deploying production AI systems.

Full-Stack Web Development

End-to-end web applications with Next.js, React, Django, and FastAPI. From responsive frontends to scalable backend APIs.

Cross-Platform Mobile

Native-quality mobile apps for iOS and Android using Flutter and React Native. Published apps on Play Store and App Store.

Multilingual AI Systems

AI solutions for low-resource African languages including Luganda, Kinyarwanda, and Swahili. Gold Prize at Cohere Expedition Aya.

Cloud & DevOps

Deploying scalable infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and Azure with Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.

AI Agents & Automation

Building autonomous AI agents with LangChain, LangGraph, and LlamaIndex for complex workflows and decision support.

CAREER

Experience

Building AI systems at the intersection of research and production, with a focus on multilingual and ethical AI.

AI Engineer

Crane AI Labs
Jan 2025 – Present
  • Leading development of multilingual AI systems focused on African low-resource languages
  • Fine-tuning Google DeepMind Gemma models for Luganda, Kinyarwanda, and Swahili
  • Building instruction-tuning datasets and evaluation pipelines

AI Research Associate

Cohere
Sept 2024 – Present
  • Designing pipelines for vision-language model training
  • Built Afri-Aya dataset covering 14 African languages
  • Created annotation platform for human validation

LLM Engineer

Unify
Mar 2024 – Oct 2024
  • Built "LLM Wars" benchmarking platform for comparative LLM evaluation
  • Integrated multiple LLM APIs with optimized latency
  • Developed analytics features for model performance insights
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PORTFOLIO

Featured Projects

A selection of projects showcasing my work in AI, machine learning, and full-stack development.

MindBridge

MindBridge

Full-stack multimodal mental health platform combining mobile, web, chatbot, and VR therapy. Selected as Best Innovation Project at Makerere University.

React NativeNext.jsUnityAI ChatbotVR
Afri-Aya Vision-Language Dataset

Afri-Aya Vision-Language Dataset

Large-scale dataset representing African cultural contexts across 14 languages. Built automated data collection and captioning pipelines.

PythonVLMData EngineeringMultimodal
Synthetic Pneumonia Research

Synthetic Pneumonia Research

Research on GAN and diffusion models for medical image augmentation. Achieved 87.02% test accuracy with FID 2.54.

PyTorchGANsDiffusionMedical AI
LLM Wars

LLM Wars

Benchmarking platform for real-time comparison of responses from multiple AI models with analytics for performance insights.

Next.jsLLM APIsAnalyticsFull-Stack
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Let's Build Something Amazing Together

Whether you're looking to collaborate on AI research, need help with a project, or just want to chat about the future of technology in Africa, I'd love to hear from you.

Get In Touchglorrys@andrew.cmu.edu