I'm an ML Engineer at Aethex AI, where I work on the voice pipeline — STT, LLM, TTS — for voice agents serving African and Arabic-speaking markets. I came to this from six years of research data science: building and auditing multilingual datasets, and shipping Python/LLM tools for academic teams at Yale, Oxford, Georgetown, Princeton, and the Rockwool Foundation. Native Arabic and a research-grade bar for data quality are the threads connecting both halves.