London, United Kingdom

Mukhtar
Rabiu
Danbatta

Data Scientist with 4+ years building predictive models, ML pipelines, and production AI systems across financial services, logistics, and public sector. Currently shipping agentic pipelines and SaaS products from London.

mukhtar@ds-lab - zsh
$ python -c "import mukhtar; print(mukhtar)"

{
  "name": "Mukhtar Danbatta",
  "role": "Data Scientist",
  "location": "London, UK",
  "right_to_work": "Full UK ✓",
  "stack": [
    "Python", "FastAPI", "SQL",
    "Docker", "AWS", "LLMs"
  ],
  "focus": ["ML", "Agentic AI", "SaaS"]
}

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// About

Who I Am

I'm a Data Scientist with over four years of hands-on experience turning raw data into measurable business impact - from automated NLP pipelines that cut risk classification time by 60%, to operational dashboards that saved 40% of manual reporting effort across port logistics.

My work spans financial services, insurance, logistics, and AI-driven SaaS. I hold two postgraduate degrees: an MSc in Data Science (Middlesex University) and an MSc in Information Systems (Kingston University London), built on a First-Class BSc in IT. That combination lets me go from model development to stakeholder presentation without losing anything in translation.

My current focus is production-grade AI - agentic pipelines, FastAPI microservices, and full-stack SaaS products. I've shipped Sannu, an AI chatbot SaaS for UK SMBs, and built a live UK Company Risk Monitor using the Anthropic SDK. I hold full UK right to work and am based in London, open to hybrid and remote opportunities.

Current Role
Data Scientist
Amdari · London · Feb 2025–Present
Availability
Open to Opportunities
Hybrid · Remote · UK-wide
Right to Work
Full UK Right to Work
No visa barriers
Location
London, United Kingdom
+44 7881 164019
// Experience

Work History

Feb 2025 – Present Amdari · London, UK
Data Scientist
  • Delivered data analysis and modelling workstreams for financial services clients, working with datasets from tens of thousands to low hundreds of thousands of records.
  • Led customer segmentation analysis using clustering and descriptive statistics, enabling more targeted understanding of customer groups and behavioural patterns.
  • Developed and tested predictive models for insurance cost estimation, supporting more consistent and repeatable analytical outputs.
  • Reduced data quality issues during modelling by 20–25% through systematic data preparation, feature engineering, and EDA pipelines.
  • Communicated analytical findings through presentations and written summaries, directly informing business strategy and stakeholder decisions.
Aug 2022 – Jan 2025 Nigerian Ports Authority · UK
Data Scientist - Operations & Analytics
  • Analysed large operational datasets (100k+ records) covering vessel traffic, turnaround times, cargo volumes, and resource utilisation.
  • Built automated reporting and dashboards in Excel, SQL, and Power BI, reducing manual reporting effort by 40%.
  • Identified operational inefficiencies through performance metric analysis, contributing to a 20% reduction in port turnaround time.
  • Improved overall data quality and consistency by 30% through systematic cleaning, validation, and standardisation pipelines.
  • Translated cross-functional operational requirements into actionable analytical outputs for senior management.
Dec 2022 – Sep 2023 SingleSource Technologies
Data Science Intern
  • Developed a Python-based pipeline for EDGAR database retrieval and preprocessing of 10-K financial filings.
  • Achieved significant improvements in risk classification accuracy using NLP and advanced ML techniques.
  • Conducted advanced data exploration, visualisation, and statistical analysis using Python and R.
  • Collaborated across teams to align analytical solutions with business objectives.
// Projects

What I've Built

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Sannu - AI Chatbot SaaS for UK SMBs
Full-stack SaaS product targeting UK dental practices and law firms. Built with Next.js 14, Supabase (pgvector), Clerk auth, Stripe billing across four tiers, and Anthropic Claude for streaming AI responses with RAG.
Next.js 14 TypeScript Supabase pgvector Stripe Anthropic SDK
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UK Company Risk Monitor
Agentic pipeline consuming Companies House API to monitor and assess UK employer risk signals. FastAPI + async SQLAlchemy + Anthropic SDK. Full CI passing (ruff, mypy, pytest), Dockerised and deployed to Railway.
FastAPI Anthropic SDK SQLAlchemy Docker Railway CI/CD
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Risk Factor Classification (SEC 10-K)
Automated pipeline to extract and classify risk factors from U.S. SEC 10-K filings. Researched Linear SVC, Naive Bayes, Neural Topic Modelling, and LLMs (GPT-3.5). Reduced classification time by 60%.
Python LLMs NLP Hugging Face Topic Modelling
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FNOL Intelligence System
ML system to predict insurance claim outcomes and costs from First Notice of Loss data. Reduced claim processing cost by 30%. Deployed with Streamlit dashboards, Docker, and AWS with a retraining mechanism.
Scikit-learn Streamlit Docker AWS Feature Engineering
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Customer Segmentation - RFM Analysis
Customer segmentation of banking clients using RFM (Recency, Frequency, Monetary) analysis. Applied K-Means clustering to derive actionable segments for targeted marketing strategy and customer profiling.
Python K-Means Pandas Scikit-learn Clustering
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Cryptocurrency Price Forecasting
Time-series predictive models for cryptocurrency price movements that outperformed baseline forecasts using advanced feature engineering on historical market and sentiment data.
Python Time Series Feature Engineering Forecasting
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Hospital Bed Demand Prediction
ML system forecasting hospital bed demand from historical utilisation data, enabling proactive NHS capacity planning and operational decision-making. Full pipeline from EDA to deployment-ready model.
Python Regression Scikit-learn Healthcare
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Network Intrusion Detection
ML-based system to detect network intrusions and anomalous traffic patterns. Applied classification models on network traffic data to flag potential security threats with high precision.
Python Classification Cybersecurity Scikit-learn
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Shift Performance Optimisation
Data analysis and predictive modelling to evaluate workforce shift performance from operational data. Identified patterns in productivity and inefficiencies to generate performance predictions and insights.
Python EDA Pandas Scikit-learn
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Sales Cohort Analysis
Customer cohort analysis on transactional sales data to track retention rates, revenue patterns, and lifecycle behaviour over time - informing business strategy and marketing budget allocation.
Python Cohort Analysis Pandas Visualisation
Women's Super League Analysis
Data analytics project examining performance trends, match statistics, and player patterns across Women's Super League seasons using Tableau dashboards and Python-driven statistical visualisation.
Tableau Python Sports Analytics Visualisation
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Fan Attendance & Match Performance
Statistical study of the causal relationship between fan attendance and football match outcomes. Used hypothesis testing and regression to quantify the measurable effect of crowd presence on results.
Statistics Hypothesis Testing Regression Python
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Travel Assistant AI (Hotel Chatbot)
AI-powered conversational chatbot for hotel queries and booking assistance. Uses LangChain and LLM APIs for intent recognition, context management, and natural dialogue generation.
Python LangChain LLMs Prompt Engineering
// Skills & Tools

Technical Stack

Languages & Core Libraries
Python SQL R Pandas NumPy Scikit-learn TensorFlow Keras PySpark
AI, ML & NLP
Machine Learning Deep Learning NLP LLMs Hugging Face Anthropic SDK LangChain MLflow Agentic Pipelines
Infrastructure & Production
FastAPI Docker AWS Railway Git CI/CD Streamlit SQLAlchemy PostgreSQL Supabase
Analytics & Visualisation
Tableau Power BI Matplotlib Seaborn Excel (Advanced) EDA Statistical Modelling Time Series
// Education

Academic Background

MSc Information Systems
Kingston University, London
Sep 2024 – Present (Expected Nov 2025)
Agile Project Management · Data & Database Management · Business in Practice · IT & Entrepreneurship
MSc Data Science
Middlesex University, Dubai
Jan 2022 – Oct 2023 · Credit
Applied Data Analytics · Machine Learning · Visual Data Analytics · Legal, Ethical & Security Aspects of Data Science
BSc Information Technology & Business Information Systems
Middlesex University, London
Sep 2020 – Jun 2021 · First Class Honours
Business Intelligence · Strategic Information Systems · UI/UX Design
// Certifications
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AWS Academy Data Engineering
Amazon Web Services Academy
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Advanced Diploma in Software Engineering
Aptech Computer Education
// Contact

Let's Work Together

I'm open to Data Scientist, ML Engineer, and AI Engineer roles across the UK - hybrid or remote. Whether you're hiring, building something, or want to collaborate, I'd love to hear from you.