Daniel Egbo

I build production AI systems — and radio-star science.

Astronomy PhD, UCT (thesis submitted Jul 2026) building production RAG and agentic AI systems alongside MeerKAT/Gaia radio-astronomy research at UCT/SAAO.

Currently: open to AI Engineer roles and postdoctoral positions · Cape Town, South Africa (open to remote / relocation)

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01 / Introduction

About Me

I am an AI Engineer and Astronomer (PhD submitted Jul 2026) at the University of Cape Town and the South African Astronomical Observatory. I build production RAG, agentic AI, and ML pipelines — and study radio-emitting stars with MeerKAT, Gaia, and eROSITA. Open to postdoctoral positions and industry AI Engineer roles.

02 / Two Audiences

Choose Your Track

For Hiring Managers

Hiring an AI Engineer?

Production RAG and agentic systems, LLM fine-tuning, speech AI, and MLOps with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD across AWS and GCP.

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For Collaborators

Hiring a Postdoc?

Radio stars in the MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey: 443K sources, 629 stellar counterparts, 9 peer-reviewed papers, SALT spectroscopy.

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03 / Selected Work

Projects with Measured Results

Radio Star Discovery Pipeline

443,455 MeerKAT radio sources cross-matched against Gaia DR3 → 629 stellar counterparts, published in MNRAS.

SAAO arXiv RAG

Airflow ingestion, BM25 + vector hybrid search in OpenSearch, and citation-grounded answers from a local model stack.

Whisper Medical ASR

Fine-tuned Whisper-small: 11.0% → 5.4% normalized WER on 500 held-out clips (51% relative reduction).

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04 / Contact

Let's Talk

I'm open to industry AI Engineer roles and postdoctoral research positions — RAG/LLM engineering, applied ML, or radio-astronomy survey science.

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