Patrick Attankurugu
KYC and AML systems, computer vision, RAG pipelines, and autonomous agent workflows for financial institutions across Africa.
Live systems

Identity verification, AML monitoring, and fraud prevention running in production for financial institutions.
I build applied AI systems for financial institutions where model quality, product reliability, and regulatory context all matter. My work spans identity verification, AML monitoring, credit scoring, PEP screening, deepfake detection, and AI-assisted investigation workflows.
At Agregar Technologies, I work across model development and backend engineering: taking ML ideas from prototype to production APIs, integrating them into real workflows, and keeping the systems understandable for the people who depend on them.
Working profile
Builder of production AI systems where compliance, identity, and real-world operations meet.
The four areas I work in daily. The full stack, mapped to the shipped systems where each tool was used, is on the tech stack page.
Risk models, classifiers, model optimization, and deployment.
Document capture, biometric checks, fraud signals, and object detection.
Retrieval, reasoning, investigation support, and report drafting.
APIs, queues, databases, containerized services, and deployment.
The common thread is taking AI from research-shaped ideas into APIs, workflows, and operating systems that people can trust in regulated environments.
Senior AI Engineer
Aug 2024 - Present
Build production AI/ML systems for identity verification and financial compliance across Africa, including credit scoring, document verification, smart ID capture, AML monitoring, and biometric fraud prevention.
Co-founder, CTO then CEO
Nov 2022 - Jul 2024
Co-founded an AI surveillance startup incubated at Ghana Digital Centres Limited. Built Vspy, a real-time predictive surveillance system that connects to IP cameras and uses computer vision models to detect suspicious activity. Led a five-person engineering team.
Enterprise deployments, open-source tools, and live products across financial compliance, identity verification, and social impact.
LiveAutonomous Compliance AI
Live agentic compliance platform: real-time multi-agent investigations, explainable AI, and measured model quality.
Specialized AI agents orchestrated by LangGraph run end-to-end AML/KYC investigations, streamed live agent by agent: sanctions and PEP research, network analysis, explainable risk scoring, and SAR drafting.
Live demo: run an agent investigation and ask the copilot
Open SourceOpen-Source PEP Screening Platform
Screening interface and open data workflow for Africa-wide PEP checks.
Real-time screening platform for politically exposed persons across all 54 African Union member states. Features fuzzy name matching, graph-based relationship detection, country filtering, and batch processing for KYC/AML workflows.
54 AU member states covered
KYC/KYB Fraud Risk Engine
Identity & Business Verification
Identity & Business Verification
Unified KYC/KYB risk pipeline for individual and corporate onboarding.
End-to-end identity and business verification engine covering document checks, liveness, PEP screening, sanctions, and risk scoring for both individual (KYC) and corporate (KYB) onboarding.
Enterprise deployment: client visuals confidential
Deepfake Detection System
Biometric Fraud Prevention
Biometric Fraud Prevention
Multi-layer biometric fraud checks running in regulated identity workflows.
Production system detecting AI-generated faces, video replays, and printed photo spoofing in KYC workflows, paired with trained models for intelligent Ghanaian ID capture.
Enterprise deployment: client visuals confidential
AI Credit Scoring Engine
Risk Modeling
Risk Modeling
Automated decisioning service for credit risk review at financial institutions.
Machine learning credit scoring system that pulls individual and business credit data from XDS Data bureau, applies risk models, and returns automated decisioning for financial institutions.
Enterprise deployment: client visuals confidential
LiveAfrican Regulatory Intelligence
Regulatory Q&A interface for African compliance research.
AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform for African financial compliance. Gives instant, citation-backed answers on KYC, AML, and STR regulations across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and FATF standards.
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Contact
If you're working on compliance AI, identity systems, or production ML, I'm easy to reach. I enjoy comparing notes on hard problems in this space.
Working with teams across Africa and globally.