About
My Introduction
I help businesses turn data and ideas into working products â from analytics dashboards and predictive models to web apps, scrapers, and automation scripts. My core stack spans web app and backend development, ML and data modeling, exploratory data analysis, web scraping & data sourcing, and advanced NLP. Whether you need a clean dataset, an endâtoâend ML pipeline, or a custom tool that removes repetitive work, I design, build, and deploy solutions that ship and are easy to use. If youâre looking for a partner to scope your problem, prototype fast, and deliver results, letâs work together.
Experience
My journey in the academic & professional frontB.Science - Computer Science
Kabarak University, NakuruSoftware Engineering Bootcamp
Zalego InstituteHigh School
Lenana School | NairobiMachine Learning Lead
BITZ-IT ConsultingData Author
Amplify Project - JHUB, Makerere AI Labs, GOOGLEData Scraper
Lish AI Labs - Simba AIFreelance Solutions Expert
Upwork, Freelancer/IndependentHealth IT Intern
Langalanga HospitalData Analyst Intern
Kenya PowerSkills
My technical & other skillsData Science & AI
2 Years XPComputer Vision
75%Generative AI
95%Natural Language Processing
95%Signal Processing
70%Probability & Statistics
75%Data Analytics & Visualization
85%Frameworks & Libraries
80%Programming
3+ Years XPPython
90%SQL
80%Java
60%C++
70%Computing
3+ Years XPGPU & Distributed Computing
85%Amazon Web Services
50%Google Cloud Platform
65%Front End
3 Years XPHTML
90%CSS
85%JavaScript
75%React JS
70%VueJs
85%BackEnd
3 Years XPPython - Django, Flask, Fast API
95%Firebase
55%Java - Spring Framework
70%Node JS, Express JS
70%Misc
2+ Years XPGit
90%Linux
80%DVC, MLFlow
85%Research
My research publications, conference contributions, & patentsAmplify Initiative: Building A Localized Data Platform for Globalized AI
Human-Computer Interaction, 2025Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.14105
Paper Author(s):Qazi Mamunur Rashid - Google Research USA ; Joyce Nabende - Makerere University Uganda; Erin MacMurray van Liemt - Google Research USA ; Rehema Baguma Makerere University Uganda; Lawrence Nderu Jommo Kenyatta University Agriculture & Technology Kenya; Obichi Obiajunwa Hutzpa Innovations Nigeria; Abigail Oppong Independent Researcher Ghana; Michael Zimba Malawi University of Science & Technology Malawi et al ;)
Data Author(s): Peter Rogendo - Kabarak University; Abigail Oppong et al ;)
Current AI models often fail to account for local context and language, given the predominance of English and Western internet content in their training data. This hinders the global relevance, usefulness, and safety of these models as they gain more users around the globe. Amplify Initiative, adata platform and methodology, leverages expert communities to collect diverse, high-quality data to address the limitations of these models. The platform is designed to enable co-creation of datasets, provide access to high-quality multilingual datasets, and offer recognition to data authors.
Beyond the Hype: Building Production-Ready AI for Helplines with DistilBERT Fine-Tuning
Link: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beyond-hype-building-production-ready-ai-helplines-peter-rogendo-wb5pf/?trackingId=7c8uwk9OTLyCRoUrbUmi5Q%3D%3D
Author: Peter Rogendo
Our challenge was immense: how to instantly categorize sensitive, unstructured conversations from a child protection helpline. The goal was to automatically detect the main issue, specific sub-topic, required intervention, and urgency level to ensure children get the right help, fast.
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for Real-Time Carbon Emission Management and Climate Change Resilience Planning in Kenya
Conference: NeurIPS, 2024Link: https://www.climatechange.ai/papers/neurips2024/98
Author(s):Peter Rogendo ; Alukwe Jones ; Theophilus Owiti ; Mercy Gachoka
As climate change intensifies, reducing carbon emissions has emerged as a critical global objective. Countries like Kenya, which heavily depend on agriculture and pastoral systems, are disproportionately affected by changing climatic conditions