Saheed Faremi

Experience

1. Founding engineer · Curnance

   — → present

   Set up the engineering organisation and shipped the admin, wallet, and KYC subsystems.

   • Built the Go service monorepo
   • Shipped the Svelte admin and Flutter wallet
   • Stood up the KYC pipeline

2. Software engineer · Etihuku

   — → present

   Engineering on the Etihuku HRIS — Go services, Svelte admin, web presence.

   • Contributed to the Go HRIS backend and the Svelte admin interface
   • Worked on the Etihuku web property

Education

1. PhD · TBD — verify

   — → in-progress

   Neural engineering / machine learning

   Doctoral research on segmenting EEG into microstate sequences using variational autoencoders.

Recognition

1. Winner — UNESCO India-Africa Hackathon 2022 (AGRI12) 2022

   UNESCO · Ministry of Education Innovation Cell (India) · Gold medal + ₹3 lakh team prize

Selected projects

1. Curnance

   Multi-asset fintech platform spanning admin, wallet, KYC, and a Go-based service monorepo. · Founding engineer

   TypeScript · Svelte · Go · PostgreSQL · Kubernetes

2. Etihuku HRIS

   Go-based HR information system designed for African mid-market employers. · Lead engineer

   Go · PostgreSQL · Svelte

3. AI-assisted Farmer Call Center

   Automated voice-response system letting farmers report issues via phone, SMS, or web and receive AI-routed answers. · Team engineer · Eswatini representative

   Python · Voice AI · Twilio

4. EEG microstate analysis with variational autoencoders

   Source segmentation of EEG signals via variational autoencoders, including a GMM-VAE for soft clustering. · PhD researcher

   Python · PyTorch · MNE · NumPy · scikit-learn