Akai Senghor

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San Francisco Bay Area

Technical skills

Strong
Python, Pandas, NumPy, Seaborn, Matplotlib, scikit-learn, SQL, Pydantic AI, uv, Data modeling, Context management, Agent evaluation, Agent integration, Prompt engineering, RAG, Neo4j, Cypher, Logfire
Experienced
TypeScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, React, git, statsmodels, PyTorch, Dash, FastAPI

Projects

California Political Knowledge Map

An LLM-built knowledge graph of California politics from news reporting

Python · Pydantic AI

  • Built a pipeline turning CA political news into a Neo4j knowledge graph with source provenance
  • Made scrapers self-heal via JSON-LD validation and an LLM generator/critic selector loop
  • Filtered article relevance with keyword rules and an LLM agent guided by examples
  • Shipped a FastAPI Q&A app fusing full-text, vector, and LLM-generated, validated Cypher search
  • Iterated on prompts and code by reviewing failures and rerunning LLM evals, primarily on silver sets

Political Shift

A choropleth map visualizing the presidential voting 2000 to 2020, and how that voting has changed

Python · Dash · Plotly

  • Gathered, cleaned a dataset for 3000+ counties in the USA for the 6 most recent presidential elections
  • Used Dash to visualize how counties have voted and how that voting has changed between elections

Professional experience

Quarterwave · Contract Full Stack Developer

Jun 2018 – Oct 2019

Engineering firm specialized in developing traveling-wave tube amplifiers

  • Responsible for the design and implementation of a process management and inventory system
  • Created Dockerized backend powered by GraphQL for greater control over diverse data sets
  • Designed frontend using React and Apollo allowing for a seamless and instant app experience
  • Constructed touch screen interface powered by D3 and Node to integrate directly into amplifiers

ZipZap · Contract Full Stack Developer

May 2017 – Oct 2017

International remittance platform designed for low-wage earners

  • Refactored front-end to reduce backend load reducing API calls by ~15%
  • Implemented seamless payment gateway utilizing the Paysafe API
  • Debugged front-end data structures to smooth UX in React

Education

University of California Santa Cruz

2022 – 2023

Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, cum laude

Coursework: Chaos Theory, Linear Algebra

Santa Rosa Junior College

2020 – 2021

Associate for Transfer, Mathematics

Coursework: Intro to Linear Algebra, Intro to Statistics

Hack Reactor

2016

Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Program

Santa Rosa Junior College

2013

Computer Science

Coursework: Intro to Computer Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms

San Diego State University

2011 – 2013

Computer Science

Coursework: Assembly Language Programming, Intro to Java