# Oluwapelumi Fafowora

> Software Engineer at January | Kleiner Perkins Fellow

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/oluwapelumi

Interested in fundamentally improving the quality of life of others, materially.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ January
Jan 2023 – Present
January is improving how debt collection is done. We work to help borrowers get back on track by first, communicating with compassion and then, providing them with tools (payment plans, debt discounts, etc) to pay off their debt.

### Software Engineer @ Found
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Found handles business banking, taxes, invoicing, and bookkeeping for the self-employed.

### Software Engineer @ Nova Credit
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Helping immigrants moving to the US use their credit history from their home country to apply for credit cards, auto loans, phone plans, etc.

### Engineering Fellow @ Kleiner Perkins
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021

### Host+Creator: New Africa @ New Africa Podcast
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Interviewing leaders problem solving, innovating and envisioning the African continent into a New Africa.

### Software Engineer Intern @ GE Healthcare
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Worked on the PETMR team. 
Converted Image Processing code on a PETMR scanner from C to C++ to OpenCL
Reduced Image processing speed on a PETMR scanner by 20% using OpenCL and a GPU

### Software Engineer Intern @ Farmula
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Working with a startup located in Kenya and Nigeria that’s increasing small farmers’ access to markets as well as optimizing food fulfillment.

Redesigned and implemented the Farmula API to be more robust using Python and Flask
Learned Continuous Integration/Continuous Development in Gitlab
Learned how to deploy on a Digital Ocean cloud server

### Research Assistant (Computational Linguist) @ Rice University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Houston, Texas
Modeled the semantic relation of Response-Target words from a picture naming task using various word2vec computational language models in Python
Generated insight from the most accurate model to use as a tool to best teach aphasic patients how to read.

### Rice Chess Club Co-founder, President @ Rice University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Houston, Texas
Recognizing the lack of community and large numbers of chess players dispersed through campus as a problem, I decided to create the rice chess club. The club not only aims to foster continued learning and growth for its members through collaboration but also support the chess communities outside the hedges of campus.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Chevron
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Houston, Texas Area
Built a machine learning classification model using Python and Scikit Learn to identify the stages during a fracking job
Developed a web app using Dash and HTML for site engineers to browse files and view visualizations of the different stages from the model, saving the company about  $150-200K per well in the next six months as well as identifying additional cost reduction opportunities

### Tech Intern @ Rice Office of STEM Engagement (R-STEM)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Houston, Texas Area


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Rice University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/owfafowora

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Last updated: 2026-03-20