Sunil, ai security engineer

Sunil

Senior AI Security Engineer

Lagos, Nigeria · West Africa Time (UTC+1) · 2 years of experience

Sunil focuses on securing AI applications, data paths, model supply chains, and agent permissions.

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Why this profile fits

AI-specific threat modeling

Covers prompt injection, sensitive-data exposure, unsafe tool use, model supply chains, and excessive agency.

Least-privilege architecture

Scopes identities, tools, data access, secrets, and network paths to the minimum required for each workload.

Adversarial validation

Turns abuse cases and incidents into repeatable tests, monitoring signals, and response playbooks.

Relevant toolkit

Threat ModelingIAMKubernetes SecurityLLM Red TeamingSIEM

Delivery evidence

Selected work

Support Ticket Intent Router

Fintech support operations

Built a multi-class NLP classifier that tags incoming support tickets by intent and urgency, then routes them to the right queue. Trained on 60,000 historical tickets with a fine-tuned DistilBERT model served through FastAPI, reaching 91% macro F1 and auto-routing 42% of volume. Median first-response time dropped from 6.5 to 4.7 hours.

PythonHugging Face Transformers

Product Review Insight Miner

E-commerce marketplace

Aspect-based sentiment analysis and topic modeling over 400,000 product reviews to surface recurring complaints per category. Combined BERTopic for theme discovery with a fine-tuned sentiment model, then delivered a Streamlit dashboard merchants use weekly. Flagged three defect clusters that drove a packaging change and a measurable drop in return rate.

PythonPolars
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Relevant experience

Career timeline

Junior Data Scientist, NLP & Text Analytics

2024–Present

Devlyn (remote client delivery) · Lagos, Nigeria (Remote)

  • Built and shipped text-classification and intent-detection models across three client engagements, including a support-ticket router that auto-handled 42% of volume and cut median first-response time by 28%.

Laravel Developer

Feb 2022–Present

ViitorCloud Technologies · India · On-site

  • I am currently working as a laravel developer.

Wordpress Developer

May 2019–Nov 2022

WEBZLABZ PRIVATE LIMITED · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

  • Cleaned and labeled 60,000 historical support tickets to bootstrap the company's first intent-classification dataset, defining a 14-class taxonomy with the operations team.

Skill depth

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VerbalCommunicationDomainUnderstandingProblemSolvingCodeQualitySystemDesignDeliverySpeed
Competency shapeAssessment across the same six dimensions used for every profile.

Relevant experience by skill

Python3 years
SQL3 years
pandas3 years
scikit-learn2 years
NLP2 years
PyTorch2 years
Hugging Face Transformers2 years
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Languages

PythonSQLRBash

Frameworks

PyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnHugging Face TransformersFastAPIStreamlit

Libraries/APIs

pandasPolarsNumPyspaCyNLTKBERTopicsentence-transformersLangChainXGBooststatsmodelsSHAP

Tools

MLflowdbtJupyterGitDockerWeights & BiasesDVC

Paradigms

Text ClassificationSentiment AnalysisTopic ModelingNamed Entity RecognitionRetrieval-Augmented GenerationA/B TestingFeature EngineeringModel Evaluation

Platforms

Google CloudAWSDatabricksGoogle Colab

Storage

PostgreSQLpgvectorSnowflakeBigQueryRedisSQLite

Other

Data VisualizationExperiment TrackingPrompt EngineeringReproducible ResearchError Analysis

Education

Formal background

BSc, Statistics

University of Lagos · 2019–2023 · Second Class Upper Division (2:1)

Credentials

Certifications

HashiCorp Certified: Vault Associate (003)

HashiCorp · 2022 · Certified

Communication

Languages

English

Native

Igbo

Native

Yoruba

Conversational

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