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JosephRidge/README.md

Hi, I'm Joseph Ridge, but I go by JR

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AI engineer and tech researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪


About me

I build practical AI systems for organisations and apply data science and statistical techniques to real problems in agriculture and materials science. I also bring hands-on experience in software engineering, ICT support and lecturing.

jr = {
    "role": ["AI Engineer", "Tech Researcher"],
    "also": ["Software Engineer", "ICT Support", "Lecturer"],
    "based_in": "Nairobi, Kenya",
    "research": "NMR + machine learning for honey authentication",
    "philosophy": "frugal, locally deployable, open-source tooling",
}

Currently

  • Exploring graph RAG approaches for scientific (NMR) data
  • Building n8n automations for real-world information workflows
  • Teaching AI for Software Developers: local LLMs, RAG, agents and automation

AI & Data

  • AI systems: RAG chatbots (traditional, graph and hybrid RAG), local LLMs, document & email classification
  • Automation: n8n and Python workflows, auto-reports, data pipelines
  • Data & dashboards: Python, SQL, Power BI, React + Supabase

Research

Applying data science and statistical techniques (chemometrics, machine learning) to agriculture and materials science.

  • NMR spectroscopy + ML for Honey authentication

Also

Software engineering: full-stack & mobile, REST APIs, Git workflows & code review ICT support: networks, technical support, cybersecurity & data protection, systems admin Lecturing: AI/LLM systems, data science, full-stack & mobile, Power BI


Tech stack

AI & Data

Web & Mobile

Tools


Featured projects

See the pinned repositories below 👇

Work with me

AI builds, automation, ICT support and corporate training via JayAfrique Techub.


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  1. project-creation-automation project-creation-automation Public

    This is a simple project automation program written in python aimed at reducing time taken in project creation all the way to Version control set up 🤓 🤘

    Python 1

  2. State101 State101 Public

    Understanding Ephemeral & App state, passing data to widgets using constructors. Using Provider library for state management.

    C++

  3. FirebaseCRUD FirebaseCRUD Public

    Simple tutorial on building a TASK manager a CRUD application enabled by Firebase which is a Backend as a Service (BaaS) together with cloudinary to store images.

    Kotlin

  4. RAG-CHAT RAG-CHAT Public

    RAG + Ollama

    Jupyter Notebook