Shalom O is a highly skilled Data Engineer and Software Engineer with extensive experience in data-driven technologies and machine learning across healthcare, neurotechnology, and social media sectors. He adeptly utilizes programming languages such as Python, MATLAB, and Java, and has significant expertise in machine learning frameworks like PyTorch, as well as data analysis tools including Bash scripts and Selenium web scrapers. Shalom's professional contributions include enhancing speech technologies for cochlear implant… Show more

1. Monitoring and Evaluation/Data Lead

   MEDGLOBE Initiative, Lagos, Nigeria· OtherFeb 2026 — Present

   • Designing and implementing data collection/analysis tools to measure the impact of free medical outreach programmes in Lagos, Abuja, and Imo states.
   • Training volunteer teams to ensure effective tool adoption.
2. Administrative and Technical Support Assistant

   Blueprint Medtech Seedling Programme, NeuroTech Harbor, National Institute of Health· HealthTechAug 2024 — May 2025

   • Supported experts from Harvard, Howard, and Johns Hopkins Universities in evaluating gaps in technologies and commercialization plans for various novel neurotechnologies from start-ups and academic teams.
   • Provided technical support and training to client teams in using the Guidance and Impact Tracking System (GAITS) Platform Portal for project tracking, reporting, and data analysis.
3. Machine Learning Research at Pratt School of Engineering

   Duke University· OtherMay 2024 — Jul 2024

   • Developed and implemented a machine learning model architecture that improves speech intelligibility for deaf people who use cochlear implants in reverberant environments with PyTorch and MATLAB.
   • Co-authored 'The Omni-Expert: A Computationally Efficient Approach to Achieve a Mixture of Expertise in a Single Expert Model' [poster] published at the 2025 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), one of the top annual conference in the world for AI and machine learning along ICML.
4. Research Assistant - Data Engineering and Data Science

   PandEval (UMIACS), University of Maryland· OtherJan 2023 — May 2024

   • Engineered and documented a pipeline to create a dataset of over 5 million tweets about COVID-19 with Python and Bash scripts.
   • Engineered and documented a pipeline to gather census data on essential workers distributions across various geographies in the United States using Python, Selenium web scraper, and Bash scripts on a SLURM scheduler.
   • Analysed how the attitude of social media users towards conventional scientific wisdom about COVID-19 affects how they interact with public health experts with Python, large language models, and NLP techniques.
5. Facebook (Meta) University Engineering Intern

   Meta Platforms Inc· Enterprise & SaaSMay 2022 — Aug 2022

   • Designed, built, and documented an Android mobile application to simplify home chores for people with executive functioning challenges using Java, Android Studio, Parse Database.

1. Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

   Howard UniversityUnited States2001 — 2025