Tchamna.
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Shck Tchamna, PhD

Target roles: AI Engineer, ML Engineer, MLOps Engineer, Data Engineer, Math/Physics/Technology Teacher

AI Engineer, Data Scientist, and interdisciplinary educator building production-ready ML systems, scalable data pipelines, and multilingual AI tools for real-world impact.

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African Polyglot MCP

African Polyglot MCP

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An MCP server connecting AI assistants to phrasebooks in 24 African languages, with dedicated Nufi dictionary, grammar and conjugation tools. Combines grounded retrieval, optional semantic RAG, Google sign-in and subscription access; also available on Apify.

African Polyglot MCP — An MCP server connecting AI assistants to phrasebooks in 24 African languages, with dedicated Nufi dictionary, grammar and conjugation tools. Combines grounded retrieval, optional semantic RAG, Google sign-in and subscription access; also available on Apify.
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Projects

A collection of my work in AI, ML and software engineering.

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16 projects

African Polyglot MCP
MCPAI AgentsNLPRAGAzure

African Polyglot MCP

An MCP server connecting AI assistants to phrasebooks in 24 African languages, with dedicated Nufi dictionary, grammar and conjugation tools. Combines grounded retrieval, optional semantic RAG, Google sign-in and subscription access; also available on Apify.

Demo
Nufi RAG
RAGFAISSNLPLLM ComparisonNufi

Nufi RAG

A Nufi language assistant that searches dictionary and phrasebook evidence with embeddings and FAISS, provides cited explanations and composed translations, and compares three LLMs with query and spending limits.

Demo
RAG AI Foundations Demo
LLMRAGVector DBLangChain

RAG AI Foundations Demo

Implemented an end-to-end RAG system: data ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector store, and evaluation (faithfulness/answer relevance) with prompt variants.

DemoCode
Document Intelligence Platform
Document AINLPRAGWeb App

Document Intelligence Platform

Document AI web app for extracting, searching, and managing structured information from documents, with an end-to-end pipeline and production UI.

DemoCode
African Object Recognition
Computer VisionAzureDeep LearningWeb App

African Object Recognition

A computer vision application deployed on Azure designed to recognize and classify distinct African objects, artifacts, and cultural items. Demonstrates end-to-end model deployment and real-time inference capabilities.

Demo
African Text-to-Speech
NLPSpeech SynthesisPythonDeep Learning

African Text-to-Speech

Built a multilingual TTS pipeline for African languages: curated phoneme/tokenization, trained/fine-tuned neural TTS models, and evaluated naturalness/intelligibility.

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About Me

I am an interdisciplinary educator, AI engineer, and data scientist with a PhD in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and over a decade of experience building data-driven solutions. My work spans automated pipelines, advanced analytics, predictive modeling, multilingual AI, and mission-driven products that expand access to knowledge for under-resourced communities. I am especially motivated by work that improves people's lives, creates measurable social impact, and brings compassion into the design of technology.

Key Expertise

  • 10+ years building automated data pipelines, advanced analytics, and predictive models across research and production settings
  • Experienced across machine learning, NLP, computer vision, MLOps, and project-based STEM education
  • Founder and mission-driven leader advancing low-resource language revitalization and inclusive access to knowledge

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