Jackline Ngenia

Jackline Ngenia has been working in the data science and machine learning fields since 2019. Jackline began their career as a Cohort Representative for the Jomo Kenyatta University Actuarial Students Association (JKUASA) in 2019. In 2020, they became a Campus Ambassador for Data Science East Africa, a Mathematics Tutor for TeacherOn, and a Data Science Intern and Junior Data Scientist for Asante Financial Services Group. In 2022, they began working as a Junior Machine Learning Engineer at Omdena, where they collaborated with the impact startup Toju Africa to build an AI solution. Jackline worked on the loan capacity prediction for MSMEs given their different features. Throughout their career, Jackline has achieved various successes, such as introducing software learning to their association, organizing online webinars and meetups, developing tutorial materials, and representing and advocating for the interests of third and fourth year students.

Jackline Ngenia's education history includes a Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology between 2017 and 2021, an Online Data Science BootCamp from Chaptr Global in 2021, and a Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education from Moi Girls' School Nairobi between 2013 and 2016. Jackline also has several certifications, including Data Analyst in Python from Dataquest.io in October 2020, Python and Statistics for Financial Analysis from Coursera in October 2020, Applied Data Science I: Scientific Computing & Python (with honors) from WorldQuant University in September 2020, Applied Finance in Python Track from DataCamp in September 2020, Finance Fundamentals in Python Track from DataCamp in September 2020, Python 3 Programming Specialization from Coursera in August 2020, and Data Analyst in R from Dataquest.io in July 2020.