Folu Akintola
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Folu Akintola

Health Data Scientist & Software Engineer

I'm Folu, a Health Data Scientist and Software Engineer with a background in Computer Science and an MSc in Data Science.

I currently work as a Research Assistant in Health Data Science at the University of Oxford, NDORMS, contributing to projects involving real-world data, real-world evidence, and reproducible health data workflows. My work spans healthcare research, machine learning, full-stack software development, and MLOps — from building production-ready applications with Flutter, React, and FastAPI to deploying data and ML systems with Docker, CI/CD, Airflow, MLflow, and monitoring tools.

Beyond healthcare, I have worked on speech and language technologies for African languages, market time-series modelling, federated learning, and geoscience computer vision through collaborations with HDR UK, Newcastle University, the Alan Turing Institute, and the British Geological Survey.

I'm interested in building practical, scalable technology that turns complex ideas into useful products, research tools, and measurable real-world impact.