Bukunmi Akinyemi

Bukunmi Akinyemi

AI/ML & Full-Stack Engineer | Production AI, Agents, Systems & LLM Pipelines

Osun, Nigeria

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About

AI/ML engineer specializing in production RAG systems, agentic workflows, and evaluation pipelines. Most recently at Qanooni AI, built enterprise-scale document-processing pipelines and QCounsel, a 26-tool AI agent running inside Microsoft Word. I design and ship production AI systems with rigorous evaluation frameworks, including a citation-hallucination benchmark spanning 6 frontier models. Previously led engineering at a document automation startup. Strong foundation in Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, and cloud infrastructure.

What I'm looking for

Target Roles: Remote AI/ML Engineer, LLM & Agent Engineer, Full-Stack AI Engineer, or Software Engineer (Global remote). I am interested in building production AI agents, robust RAG systems, evaluation pipelines, and high-performance web applications. Open to general tech companies, AI startups, quantitative teams, as well as legal tech engineering roles. Available starting July 2026.

Experience

Qanooni AI

Software Engineer (Legal AI)

Qanooni AI

Oct 2025 – Jun 2026

Built production AI systems for legal drafting and review at scale. Integrated DocETL pipeline orchestration (Split → ParallelMap → CodeMap → Reduce). Shipped multilingual legal-AI evaluation: English and Arabic evaluation splits, jurisdiction-aware judge prompts, pipeline evaluations, and prompt optimization. Built QCounsel, a Pydantic AI agent running inside Microsoft Word for legal research, drafting, and litigation workflows; designed its evaluation framework, tool-routing classifier, and clarify-vs-act logic. Production AI ops: feedback-triaged bug fixes from Langfuse trace IDs; span-level latency debugging; PostHog vs DB telemetry reconciliation for apply-rate analysis. Stack: Python, FastAPI, Pydantic AI, DocETL, Langfuse, Claude API, pytest, Ruff, Pyright.

PythonPydantic AIFastAPILangfuse

Lead Software Engineer

CaseSimpli Legal Tech Solutions

Nov 2024 – Oct 2025

Led engineering on an AI-assisted legal document automation platform. Built AI-assisted legal document automation system that reduced contract drafting time by 30% while preserving lawyer-in-the-loop oversight. Built RAG pipelines for statutory materials and precedents, emphasizing citation grounding and controlled outputs. Developed AI-powered legal chatbot; improved case analysis efficiency by 25%. Collaborated with legal professionals to align system behavior with substantive legal expectations. Stack: Python (FastAPI), Next.js, PostgreSQL, OpenAI Assistants, Azure.

PythonNext.jsRAGPostgreSQL
Data Quotient Hub

Frontend Web Engineer (Part-Time)

Data Quotient Hub

Apr 2025 – Oct 2025

Shipped responsive enterprise UIs in Next.js + TypeScript for a data-management product. Worked with backend teams to integrate APIs, ensure system reliability, and improve performance.

Next.jsTypeScriptReact
Glory Schools, Egbedi

ICT Manager & Instructor

Glory Schools, Egbedi

Jan 2022 – Dec 2024

Built and maintained digital examination and e-learning platforms (99.9% uptime); implemented JWT authentication and role-based access control. Delivered a school management platform (Python + React + Docker; 1,400+ books, 3,000+ videos; 35+ PRs). Taught practical programming and ICT.

PythonReactDocker

Education

WorldQuant University

WorldQuant University

Master of Science · Financial Engineering

WorldQuant University

WorldQuant University

MSc (in progress) · Financial Engineering

2025

ESCAE Benin University, Cotonou

LLB Law

2018 – 2022

ESCAE Benin University, Cotonou

LLB, First Class Honours · Law

2018 – 2022

Certifications

Clio Certified Administrator (Legal Practice Management)

Clio

Sep 2025 – No expiry

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2025 Certified AI Foundations Associate

Oracle

Sep 2025 – No expiry

ML Specialization Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning

Coursera

Advanced Learning Algorithms

Coursera

Applied Data Science Lab

WorldQuant University

Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning (ML Specialization)

Coursera / DeepLearning.AI

Advanced Learning Algorithms (Machine Learning Specialization)

Coursera / DeepLearning.AI

Foundations of Financial Engineering

WorldQuant University

Fundamentals of LLMs

DeepLearning.AI

Skills

TypeScriptLegal TechDockerPostgreSQLReactRAGNext.jsPyTorchAI AgentsFastAPILarge Language Models (LLMachine LearningPython

Languages

English (Native or bilingual proficiency)Yoruba (Native or bilingual proficiency)