Selected work
Research systems, production AI and data work, digital public infrastructure, and entrepreneurship.
Persistent agents need a governable way to propose change without also controlling the evidence, adjudication, and authority used to approve it.
An auditable control plane for evidence-governed agent evolution, historically developed as Reflective Agent through v0.10.
Independent researcher and system designer
Phase I defines an architecture-and-methods contribution; Phase II empirical evaluation remains future work.
Production workflows need agent behavior that is testable, observable, and subject to human review.
Tool-use orchestration, evaluation pipelines, golden examples, and human-in-the-loop automation for real-estate workflows.
Machine Learning Engineer
Engineering and evaluation work supporting production-scale real-estate workflows.
Software teams working in African markets often lack realistic, locally formatted test data.
An open-source Python package generating localized names, phone numbers, mobile-money data, and national identifiers for ten African economies.
Creator and maintainer
Publicly available source and package releases support reproducible use and review.
MultiChoice Tanzania was exploring ways to improve call-center efficiency and make better use of its sales and marketing data.
A two-part proposal: a CRM-integrated AI customer-service assistant with agent search, conversational AI, and speech-to-text; and IBM Cognos Analytics dashboards with mapping, promotion analysis, natural-language exploration, and forecasting.
Founding member · IBM partnership lead · Solution co-developer and presenter, DEFIGO Group Limited
Presented the analytical solution to MultiChoice Tanzania leaders on 27 April 2022; positive feedback led to a requested follow-up with Operations, Marketing, and Customer Value Management. DEFIGO received IBM Business Partner approval later in 2022 following outreach led by Owden. The engagement remained at proposal stage.
A real-estate platform required a high-volume migration into a relational data system.
A PostgreSQL migration pipeline for a large property dataset.
Data engineering contributor
Completed in February 2022 and received a five-star client review.
Agricultural programs needed better field data, plot mapping, and delivery support for climate-smart practices.
A digital platform supporting the IMAP4CSA program and its farmer-facing operations.
Technology implementation
Kilimo Trust reports program results of 10,119 mapped plots containing 7,552 farmer profiles, 22,952 messages or digital-information items sent to 11,964 farmers, and 11,565 farmers trained.
Business-registration services in Tanzania needed an online channel for institutional and public use.
Work on BRELA’s online registration system through an earlier technology venture.
System contributor and launch presenter
Presented the system at the 2015 TNBC meeting at which it launched; linked BRELA materials provide institutional context.
Digital services required payment integrations designed around established security and compliance controls.
Payment gateway integrations involving CyberSource, DPO, and PesaPal.
Engineering delivery
Delivered payment integrations across institutional digital services.
Schools needed integrated administration, finance, academic, and communication workflows.
A school-management platform for Tanzanian institutions.
Co-founder
The platform remains active and continues serving Tanzanian education institutions.
Healthcare platforms need ongoing technical stewardship after launch.
Technology guidance and platform development for healthcare access initiatives.
Co-founder and board advisor, EMET Healthcare
Continues as board-level advisory work on platform direction and healthcare access.