London, United Kingdom

Mukhtar
Rabiu
Danbatta

I build AI systems that run in production, not just in notebooks. MSc Data Science, MSc Information Systems, and a habit of shipping - two live services running right now on RAG, tool-calling agents and FastAPI, built end to end from data layer to deployment.

mukhtar@ds-lab - zsh
$ python -c "import mukhtar; print(mukhtar)"

{
  "name": "Mukhtar Danbatta",
  "role": "Applied AI Engineer",
  "location": "London, UK",
  "right_to_work": "UK, no sponsorship needed ✓",
  "stack": [
    "Python", "FastAPI", "SQL",
    "Docker", "AWS", "LLMs"
  ],
  "focus": ["ML", "Agentic AI", "SaaS"]
}

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Systems live in production
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Projects built and documented
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Years building with LLM APIs
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Master's degrees
// About

Who I Am

I'm an Applied AI Engineer. I build LLM systems end to end and put them somewhere people can actually use them - data layer, model integration, deployment, CI. I've been building against LLM APIs since GPT-3.5 in late 2022, when my MSc thesis used one to classify risk factors in SEC 10-K filings.

My work spans financial services, insurance, healthcare and AI-driven SaaS. I hold two postgraduate degrees: an MSc in Data Science (Middlesex University) and an MSc in Information Systems (Kingston University London), built on a BSc in IT & Business Information Systems. The combination means I can go from model development to explaining it to a room of non-engineers without losing anything in translation.

Right now I'm shipping Sannu, an AI chatbot SaaS for UK small businesses with pgvector retrieval, Clerk auth and Stripe billing, and a live UK Company Risk Monitor running on a custom Claude tool-calling loop I wrote directly against the Anthropic SDK - deliberately without LangChain, for explicit control over routing and failure handling. I'm based in London with full right to work and no sponsorship required, open to hybrid and remote roles.

Current Role
Administrative Assistant
Nigerian Ports Authority, Overseas Office · London · Aug 2025–Present
Availability
Open to Opportunities
Hybrid · Remote · UK-wide
Right to Work
Full UK Right to Work
No sponsorship required · Graduate visa to Nov 2027
Location
London, United Kingdom
+44 7881 164019
// Experience

Work History

Aug 2025 – Present Nigerian Ports Authority, Overseas Office · London, UK
Administrative Assistant
  • Support the Overseas Office Accountant with correspondence, records, and reporting deadlines.
  • Maintain ledgers and payment records for overseas transactions, reconciling entries against source documentation.
  • Prepare and process payment vouchers and invoices through review and approval, resolving queries to prevent delays.
  • Designed and built the invoice management system used daily in the role, tracking hotel invoices from receipt through approval to payment and replacing manual spreadsheet tracking.
  • Maintain the financial filing system and retrieve documentation for internal and external audit requests.
Dec 2022 – Sep 2023 · Remote SingleSource Technologies
Data Science Intern
  • Remote internship undertaken alongside my MSc Data Science, on a risk-focused product aimed at mergers and acquisitions screening.
  • Built a Python pipeline against the SEC EDGAR API to retrieve 10-K filings and segment Item 1A into individual risk factors.
  • Classified risk factors using GPT-3.5-turbo alongside neural topic modelling, evaluated at 0.81 ROC AUC.
  • Validated end to end on a sample of NYSE and NASDAQ filings — sample size bounded by inference cost, not by the pipeline.
  • Delivered in Python and R. The work formed the basis of a distinction-graded MSc thesis.
// Projects

What I've Built

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Sannu - AI Chatbot SaaS for UK SMBs
Full-stack SaaS product targeting UK dental practices and law firms. Built with Next.js 14, Supabase (pgvector), Clerk auth, Stripe billing across four tiers, and Anthropic Claude for streaming AI responses with RAG.
Next.js 14 TypeScript Supabase pgvector Stripe Anthropic SDK
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UK Company Risk Monitor
Agentic pipeline consuming Companies House API to monitor and assess UK employer risk signals. FastAPI, async SQLAlchemy and Alembic, with a custom Claude tool-calling loop written directly against the Anthropic SDK — no LangChain. Full CI passing (ruff, mypy, pytest), Dockerised, deployed on Render against Neon Postgres.
FastAPI Anthropic SDK SQLAlchemy Docker Render CI/CD
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Risk Factor Classification (SEC 10-K)
Automated pipeline to extract and classify risk factors from U.S. SEC 10-K filings. Compared Linear SVC, Naive Bayes, Neural Topic Modelling and LLMs (GPT-3.5-turbo), with the best configuration reaching 0.81 ROC AUC. Basis of a distinction-graded MSc thesis.
Python LLMs NLP Hugging Face Topic Modelling
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FNOL Intelligence System
ML system to predict insurance claim outcomes and costs from First Notice of Loss data. Deployed with Streamlit dashboards, Docker, and AWS with a retraining mechanism.
Scikit-learn Streamlit Docker AWS Feature Engineering
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Customer Segmentation - RFM Analysis
Customer segmentation of banking clients using RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary) analysis. Applied K-Means clustering to derive actionable segments for targeted marketing strategy and customer profiling.
Python K-Means Pandas Scikit-learn Clustering
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Cryptocurrency Price Forecasting
Time-series predictive models for cryptocurrency price movements that outperformed baseline forecasts using advanced feature engineering on historical market and sentiment data.
Python Time Series Feature Engineering Forecasting
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Hospital Bed Demand Prediction
ML system forecasting hospital bed demand from historical utilisation data, enabling proactive NHS capacity planning and operational decision-making. Full pipeline from EDA to deployment-ready model.
Python Regression Scikit-learn Healthcare
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Network Intrusion Detection
ML-based system to detect network intrusions and anomalous traffic patterns. Applied classification models on network traffic data to flag potential security threats with high precision.
Python Classification Cybersecurity Scikit-learn
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Shift Performance Optimisation
Data analysis and predictive modelling to evaluate workforce shift performance from operational data. Identified patterns in productivity and inefficiencies to generate performance predictions and insights.
Python EDA Pandas Scikit-learn
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Sales Cohort Analysis
Customer cohort analysis on transactional sales data to track retention rates, revenue patterns, and lifecycle behaviour over time - informing business strategy and marketing budget allocation.
Python Cohort Analysis Pandas Visualisation
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Women's Super League Analysis
Data analytics project examining performance trends, match statistics, and player patterns across Women's Super League seasons using Tableau dashboards and Python-driven statistical visualisation.
Tableau Python Sports Analytics Visualisation
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Fan Attendance & Match Performance
Statistical study of the causal relationship between fan attendance and football match outcomes. Used hypothesis testing and regression to quantify the measurable effect of crowd presence on results.
Statistics Hypothesis Testing Regression Python
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Travel Assistant AI (Hotel Chatbot)
AI-powered conversational chatbot for hotel queries and booking assistance. Uses LangChain and LLM APIs for intent recognition, context management, and natural dialogue generation.
Python LangChain LLMs Prompt Engineering
// Skills & Tools

Technical Stack

Languages & Core Libraries
Python SQL R Pandas NumPy Scikit-learn
AI, ML & NLP
Machine Learning Deep Learning NLP LLMs Hugging Face Anthropic SDK RAG pgvector LangChain Agentic Pipelines
Infrastructure & Production
FastAPI Docker AWS Render GitHub Actions Git CI/CD Streamlit SQLAlchemy PostgreSQL Supabase Next.js Alembic
Analytics & Visualisation
Tableau Matplotlib Seaborn Excel (Advanced) EDA Statistical Modelling Time Series
// Education

Academic Background

MSc Information Systems
Kingston University, London
Sep 2024 – Nov 2025 · Distinction
Agile Project Management · Data & Database Management · Business in Practice · IT & Entrepreneurship
MSc Data Science
Middlesex University, Dubai
Jan 2022 – Nov 2023 · Credit
Applied Data Analytics · Machine Learning · Visual Data Analytics · Legal, Ethical & Security Aspects of Data Science
BSc Information Technology & Business Information Systems
Middlesex University, London
Sep 2020 – Jun 2021 · Final-year top-up · First Class Honours
Direct final-year entry following the Aptech Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering · Business Intelligence · Strategic Information Systems · UI/UX Design
// Certifications
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AWS Academy Data Engineering
Amazon Web Services Academy
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Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering
Aptech Computer Education
// Contact

Let's Work Together

I'm open to Applied AI Engineer, ML Engineer and Backend Engineer roles across the UK - hybrid or remote. Full right to work, no sponsorship required. Whether you're hiring, building something, or want to collaborate, I'd love to hear from you.