Miracle Chris-Mba

Machine Learning Engineer

Toronto, ON, Canada

My Journey

Applied Machine Learning Engineer with production experience building RAG, LLM agent workflows, computer vision, recommendation, and backend systems from data pipelines through deployment.

Timeline

January 2026 - April 2026

Machine Learning Engineer (Co-op)

Ontario Public Service, Toronto, Ontario

Built production RAG and LLM agent systems for security and log intelligence

  • Built and deployed an AWS Bedrock RAG pipeline over large-scale historical security and log data, reducing analyst triage time by 35%
  • Developed LLM-based agentic workflows for DataLake log streams, improving automated response time by 15%
  • Designed evaluation experiments for retrieval relevance, answer usefulness, latency, model performance, and data drift
  • Translated evaluation results into Power BI dashboards for security, data, and product stakeholders
  • Wrote production Python/ML system code with AWS services, Docker, CI/CD, REST APIs, and monitoring
January 2025 - April 2026

Diploma - Artificial Intelligence (Co-op)

Fanshawe College, London, Ontario

Completed advanced AI/ML studies with a 4.2 GPA

  • Completed coursework in Supervised Learning, Deep Learning, Generative AI, Recommendation Systems, Forecasting & Time Series, ML Deployment, and MLOps
  • Built custom CNN models and transfer-learning pipelines using PyTorch, OpenCV, CLIP, ResNet, and custom architectures
  • Developed model evaluation and deployment workflows across FastAPI, Railway, and Netlify
January 2022 - January 2025

Backend Engineer

SHIIP (Remote) - Rhode Island, United States

Built high-throughput data services and REST APIs for real-time logistics workflows

  • Built Go and Python services that reduced response times by 40%
  • Designed event-driven storage and retrieval systems supporting personalized user experiences
  • Integrated third-party data sources with validation and observability, improving workflow reliability by 20%
  • Improved API reliability through error handling, asynchronous processing, and database query optimization
August 2021 - May 2024

Co-Founder & ML / Backend Lead

Copnow (Hybrid) - Ikeja, Nigeria

Co-founded an e-commerce fashion marketplace with QC-backed marketplace workflows

  • Built predictive analytics and order-tracking services that improved uptime by 30%
  • Developed APIs handling 10,000+ daily requests with 40% lower latency
  • Led 3-5 engineers through product discovery, backend architecture, and experimentation
  • Used user activity, saves, post clicks, and order events to inform personalization and recommendation features
January 2021 - May 2021

Fullstack Developer

CURACEL (Remote) - San Francisco, United States

Enhanced application security and user experience

  • Enhanced application security features improving user data protection by 60%
  • Introduced multi-language feature expanding reach by 15% into non-English markets
April 2020 - October 2020

Backend Developer

TEEK-TECH (Onsite) - Portharcourt, Nigeria

Built CRUD endpoints for NGO product

  • Built and maintained CRUD endpoints enabling 1,000+ users to manage profiles
  • Translated web designs into functional front-end code improving load times by 25%
October 2016 - December 2020

BSc Computer Science

Madonna University, Elele, Rivers

Graduated with thesis on autonomous vehicle development

  • Developed sensor-guided autonomous vehicle using Arduino and Ultrasonic Sensors
  • Implemented HC-05 Bluetooth for remote controls using Android Application

Core Competencies

Machine Learning

PyTorchTensorFlow/Kerasscikit-learnNumPyPandasOpenCLIPYOLOv8MiDaSRetinaFaceOpenCVFAISS

Generative AI & Agents

AWS BedrockLangChainLangGraphRAG SystemsSemantic SearchVector EmbeddingsLLM EvaluationPrompt Engineering

Backend Engineering

PythonGoRustSQLJavaScript/TypeScriptREST APIsFastAPIFlaskModel Serving

MLOps, Cloud & Data

DockerCI/CDAWSS3EC2GCP FundamentalsPower BIMonitoringData Drift DetectionGitHub Actions

Leadership

Team LeadershipStartup Co-founderProject ManagementMentorship

Selected ML Projects

ONA

Object Navigation Assistant for real-time spatial awareness, combining object detection, depth estimation, face detection, and OCR to describe nearby hazards and context.

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FriendNet

Custom CNN vision model for friendly-face classification, compared against ResNet and CLIP transfer-learning baselines across accuracy, robustness, latency, and real-world image quality.

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Orchestra

Native macOS Rust CLI and daemon orchestrating 7+ AI coding agents across 8+ codebases with deterministic templates, atomic writes, sha256 drift detection, and sub-second Tokio sync.

Certification

AWS Certified Cloud DevOps Engineer

Certified in 2022; experienced deploying ML systems on AWS with Docker and CI/CD pipelines.

Current Focus

Applied ML Systems

Building RAG, LLM agent workflows, computer vision, semantic search, and recommendation systems with measurable evaluation, monitoring, and deployment discipline.

Backend Excellence

Production experience in Python, Go, REST APIs, data-backed logistics systems, model serving, Docker, CI/CD, and cloud deployment.

Leadership & Innovation

Comfortable turning ambiguous operational problems into production ML system designs through stakeholder discovery, product judgment, and iterative delivery.