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Patrick Attankurugu

Building AI for financial compliance across Africa

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Patrick Attankurugu

I build AI systems that catch fraud and keep African finance compliant.

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

Live systems

SENTINELWatch AI agents run an AML investigationAfricaPEPScreen a name against 48,000+ African PEPs
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Patrick Attankurugu
Production compliance AI

Identity verification, AML monitoring, and fraud prevention running in production for financial institutions.

About

AI systems for regulated finance

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.

CurrentSenior AI Engineer at Agregar Technologies
RecognitionJim Leech Mastercard Foundation Fellow, Queen's University
EducationComputer Science, University of Ghana
FocusLLM systems, agents, and RAG for regulated financial services in Africa
InitiativeRamah Upliftment FoundationCo-founder; board-led programmes for widows and vulnerable children in Nabdam District, Ghana.
Skills

Core technical expertise

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.

Machine Learning

Risk models, classifiers, model optimization, and deployment.

PythonPyTorchTensorFlowscikit-learnONNXTransformers

Computer Vision

Document capture, biometric checks, fraud signals, and object detection.

OpenCVYOLOOCRLiveness DetectionDeepfake Detection

LLMs and Agents

Retrieval, reasoning, investigation support, and report drafting.

LangGraphLangChainRAGVector DatabasesEntity Resolution

Backend and Cloud

APIs, queues, databases, containerized services, and deployment.

FastAPINext.jsTypeScriptPostgreSQLRedisDockerAWS
Experience

Work Experience

The common thread is taking AI from research-shaped ideas into APIs, workflows, and operating systems that people can trust in regulated environments.

Agregar Technologies

Current

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.

PythonPyTorchTensorFlowYOLOOpenCVFastAPIPostgreSQLRedisDockerAWS

SEMA Technologies

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.

PythonPyTorchOpenCVTensorFlow
Selected Work

Shipped AI systems for compliance, identity, and social impact

Enterprise deployments, open-source tools, and live products across financial compliance, identity verification, and social impact.

SENTINEL landing page screenshot
Live

SENTINEL

Autonomous 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.

PythonLangGraphGeminiFastAPINext.jsRedisPostgreSQL

Live demo: run an agent investigation and ask the copilot

Open project
AfricaPEP landing page screenshot
Open Source

AfricaPEP

Open-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.

FastAPINeo4jPostgreSQLNext.jsspaCyDocker

54 AU member states covered

Open projectSource code
Confidential System

KYC/KYB Fraud Risk Engine

Identity & Business Verification

Python
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
ML Models
Enterprise

KYC/KYB Fraud Risk Engine

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.

PythonFastAPIPostgreSQLML ModelsDocker

Enterprise deployment: client visuals confidential

Private deployment
Confidential System

Deepfake Detection System

Biometric Fraud Prevention

Python
PyTorch
Deep Learning
OpenCV
Enterprise

Deepfake Detection System

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.

PythonPyTorchDeep LearningOpenCVYOLO

Enterprise deployment: client visuals confidential

Private deployment
Confidential System

AI Credit Scoring Engine

Risk Modeling

Python
scikit-learn
FastAPI
PostgreSQL
Enterprise

AI Credit Scoring Engine

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.

Pythonscikit-learnFastAPIPostgreSQLXDS Data

Enterprise deployment: client visuals confidential

Private deployment
LexAura landing page screenshot
Live

LexAura

African 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.

PythonLLMsRAGNext.js

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Contact

Working on a hard AI problem?

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.

Emailpatricka.azuma@gmail.com
WhatsApp+233 545 014 267
LinkedInpatrick-ai-africa
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Based in Accra, Ghana

Working with teams across Africa and globally.