[04] COLOPHON

About me.

Bolaji Balogoun
FIG. 2: PORTRAIT, 2025

I am Data Director at Gozem, a leading super app in French-speaking Africa serving millions across ride-hailing, e-commerce, delivery, and fintech. I lead AI strategy and data platform engineering, and boost internal product innovation across the group’s markets: Singapore, Togo, Benin, Cameroon, Gabon, and Congo.

Together with a team of 14+ data professionals across Sub-Saharan Africa, we build systems that turn data into operational decisions for the entire organization, shipping the Gozem Data Hub as the central data platform.

I’ve also consulted for the International Trade Centre (UN agency) on data strategy for startups across ECOWAS, delivered executive data & AI trainings, co-founded Takwimu LAB to advance NLP research on low-resource African languages, and contributed to smart agriculture platforms powered by big data and machine learning. I also serve as Vice-Chair of iSheero, an initiative promoting data science and AI in Benin.

My background in Statistics & Probability, combined with hands-on expertise in cloud architecture (GCP), data engineering, machine learning, and AI-assisted full-stack development, lets me work where technical execution and operational rigor meet. I care about building teams that ship and platforms the business runs on.

Set in
Continuous learning · Solution building · Problem solving · Operational pragmatism.
Built with
Love · Music · Yam fufu · Wine · Espresso · Coding.
Born in
Godomey, Bénin · writes in EN & FR.
[01] STACK TECHNOLOGIES

AI & LLM

Claude · Gemini · RAG · Vector DBs · Agentic workflows · MCP · Document Intelligence · Claude Code

Cloud & Data

Google Cloud Storage · BigQuery · DataForm · Vertex AI · DataFlow

Visualization

Looker · Metabase · Plotly

Languages & DB

Python · R · JavaScript · Bash · SQL · MongoDB · PostgreSQL

DevOps & Tools

Airflow · Artifact Registry · AWS EC2 · Git · Docker

[02] EDUCATION 2 DEGREES
02 Master of Science in Statistics ICMPA UNESCO CHAIR, University of Abomey-Calavi 2015 - 2018
01 Bachelor in Statistics and Econometrics University of Abomey-Calavi 2010 - 2013
[03] CERTIFICATIONS
[04] PUBLICATIONS
[05] RECOGNITION