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About

Engineer, CEO, teacher

I am an MSc Data & Artificial Intelligence student at JUNIA ISEN in Lille, France, as an Erasmus+ Scholar, and a Computer Engineering student at KNUST in Kumasi, Ghana, where my results so far are First Class.

Since January 2025 I have been CEO of IntelliDiag Smart Diagnostics, an AI platform that analyses medical images to support the early detection of diseases such as cancer. It is positioned as clinical decision support, not diagnosis. The venture is backed by a Mastercard Foundation Africa Health Collaborative grant and was selected for HIFest 2026 as one of 37 ventures from nine partner institutions.

My path into engineering started with robotics competitions in junior high school. Since then I have led a school team to the Ghana Robotics Competition title, taught robotics to more than 1,000 students across 12 schools, chaired a 300+ participant IEEE technical programme, and shipped tested code on a real team repository.

In October 2026 I built Nwoma on my own: it reads clinical documents in English and French with a fine-tuned transformer, codes them with an LLM agent over hybrid retrieval, exposes it all through an MCP server, and runs on AWS Lambda.

I am working towards a career as an Intelligent Systems Engineer: someone who can build AI-powered physical systems and the software and cloud infrastructure that deploy them.

In the room

Kobi holding a jumper wire and explaining an Arduino circuit to two students
Teaching hands-on electronics with Arduino.
Kobi speaking into a microphone on a panel at ARISE, wearing an ARISE t-shirt
Speaking as a panelist at ARISE 2025.
Students in ARISE t-shirts testing a LEGO robot at the ARISE robotics competition
Judging the ARISE 2025 robotics competition.
The RAVen team standing together in front of a Hult Prize banner
The RAVen team at the Hult Prize on-campus programme, KNUST.

Experience

  1. Robotics Instructor, Independent

    Aug 2026 to Present

    Independent

    Still teaching robotics independently, with no organisational affiliation, since FireflyIO ended.

  2. Full-Stack Engineer Intern, Livestockly

    Nov 2025 to Feb 2026

    Remote

    Front-end features and developer environment work on a remote engineering team.

    • Built and maintained responsive front-end features in Next.js and React, testing layouts across screen sizes.
    • Set up Docker, WSL and Linux workflows that standardised the engineering team's development environment.
  3. CEO, IntelliDiag Smart Diagnostics

    Jan 2025 to Present

    Ghana

    An AI platform that analyses medical images to support early detection of diseases such as cancer, built as clinical decision support rather than diagnosis.

    • Lead strategy, team, partnerships, grant management and pitching, and contribute to the backend.
    • Secured about US$15,000 in funding through the Mastercard Foundation Africa Health Collaborative.
    • Selected for HIFest 2026, one of 37 ventures chosen competitively across nine Africa Health Collaborative partner institutions, in the Early Stage track under the Digital & AI-Driven Healthcare Solutions theme.
    • Working with a radiology partner at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital on breast, chest and brain imaging from MRI and CT.
    • Advised by Dr. Henry Nunoo-Mensah of the AI in Health theme at RAIL-KNUST, with finance and legal support from H2i at the University of Toronto.
    HIFest 2026 ventures (opens in a new tab)
  4. Community Manager, EasyCode Foundation

    Jan 2025 to Aug 2026

    Ghana

    Grew student participation in tech through events, workshops and outreach.

    • Organised coding events and workshops, and managed community communications across platforms.
    • Led technical skill-building programmes and coordinated resources for digital literacy.
  5. Instructor, STEM Outreach Program, Ashanti Region

    Oct 2024 to Dec 2024

    Ashanti Region, Ghana

    A regional STEM outreach initiative delivered with the FireflyIO team and RichTech World.

  6. STEM Instructor, Opoku Ware M/A JHS

    Sep 2024 to around Dec 2024

    Kumasi, Ghana

    Taught foundational coding and electronics at the junior high school I attended.

    • Taught Scratch, Arduino and basic electronics with custom lesson plans.
    • One of my students placed 1st among 30+ schools in the Regional Basic School Technology Proficiency Challenge.
  7. Robotics & STEM Instructor, FireflyIO

    Aug 2024 to Aug 2026

    Ashanti Region, Ghana

    Robotics and STEM education, increasingly incorporating computer vision and AI.

    • Taught robotics and STEM to more than 1,000 students across 12 schools.
    • Coached teams to 2nd and 5th place nationally at the Ghana Robotics Competition 2024.
    • Designed custom lesson plans and technology kits using EV3, SPIKE Prime, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Jetson Nano and ESP32.

Education

  1. MSc, Data & Artificial Intelligence

    Aug 2026 to Present

    JUNIA ISEN, Lille, France

    • Erasmus+ Scholar.
  2. BSc, Computer Engineering

    Jan 2024 to Aug 2027 (expected)

    Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana

    • First Class so far.
    • Francis Faki Amanquah Foundation Scholar, awarded for academic excellence and leadership.
    • Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming (C++), Probability & Statistics, Numerical Analysis, Microprocessors, Classical Control Systems.
  3. WASSCE, General Science

    Mar 2021 to Sep 2023

    St. Louis Senior High School, Kumasi, Ghana

    • Head Girl, SRC President, STEM President and Robotics Team Lead.
  4. Junior High School

    2017 to Dec 2020

    Opoku Ware M/A Junior High School, Kumasi, Ghana

    • Overall Best Student 2020, 1st of 152 in the JHS 3 mock examinations.
    • Robotics Club member.

Skills

Languages
PythonTypeScriptCC++DartMicroPython
AI & Machine Learning
Machine learningComputer visionTransformer fine-tuning (XLM-R)Object detection (YOLOv8)OCR (Tesseract)Model evaluationNumPyPandasRoboflow
LLMs & Agents
LLM agents with tool useMCP serversRAG and hybrid retrievalGemini, OpenAI and Google AI APIsClaude CodeCodex
Backend & Full-Stack
FastAPIDjangoREST APIsPostgreSQLRedisReactNext.jsFlutter
Cloud & DevOps
AWS LambdaDynamoDBCognitoAmplifyAWS SAMAWS CDKIAMGitHub Actions (OIDC)DockerLinuxGit
Testing
pytestPlaywrightmoto
Robotics & Hardware
ArduinoRaspberry PiJetson NanoESP32PixhawkPX4 / ArduPilotMAVLinkKiCadOnshape