# James Ngugi Njoroge

> James Njoroge is an AI engineer with an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence from Boston University. He is the founder and CEO of Kuja, CTO of Berverly Gardens, and builds production ML systems — fast!

James Njoroge works as an AI & Machine Learning Engineer. Available for full-time AI/ML engineering and project management roles.. Born in Nairobi, Kenya; based in Boston, MA, USA.

## Areas of expertise
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Computer Vision
- LLM Safety and Security
- Data Engineering
- Software Engineering
- Technical Leadership
- Technical Development
- Prompt Engineering
- System Thinker
- Entrepreneurship

## Education
- Boston University — M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, GPA 3.64 (2025–2026)
- Colgate University — B.A. Computer Science & Applied Mathematics, cum laude (2021–2025)
- University of Manchester — Study Abroad: AI, Probability, Database Systems (2023–2024)
- Choate Rosemary Hall — High School Diploma (2018–2021)

## Selected experience
- Founder & CEO, Kuja, Inc. (Feb 2026 – present) — founded and shipped kuja.app solo, an event-led social network on Flutter and Supabase, live on web, iOS, and Android.
- Chief Technology Officer, Berverly Gardens (2026 – present) — owns technology direction for a Kenyan property developer; designed the Cloudflare Pages/Workers/D1/R2 platform, lead capture, and admin CMS.
- Digital Finance Intern, Mondelez International (Fortune 500) — automated global FP&A ETL pipelines (75% faster), presented to the global CFO and treasurer.
- Generative AI Committee, Colgate University — research on GenAI tooling in academic settings.
- Research Intern, Colgate Data Science Collaboratory — R Shiny interfaces for geospatial, network, and text analysis.
- Teaching Assistant, Colgate Computer Science — Python and Java, data structures and algorithms, four semesters.

## Projects
- [Kuja](https://www.kuja.app): An event-led social network — founded, built, and shipped solo. (Live in production, Web · iOS · Android, Founder & CEO)
- [Berverly Gardens Platform](https://berverlygardens.com/): The edge-native platform a Kenyan property developer runs on. (Pages + Workers + D1 + R2, Lead capture to CRM, CMS-driven content ops)
- [jnjoroge.dev](https://jnjoroge.dev): This website — an open-source, SEO-first portfolio and blog.
- VisionSentry: Thermal and RGB detection and tracking for small UAVs. (0.92 mAP@0.50, 0.91 precision · 0.89 recall, ~400K thermal images)
- AgentGate: A policy-aware AI firewall that sits in front of LLM agents. (96.5% held-out accuracy, 4.6% false-positive rate, 5-layer safety pipeline)
- [Footy Liveliness](https://www.footyliveliness.com): Machine learning that predicts how exciting a Premier League match will be — before kickoff. (0.821 R², 90% top-10 hit rate, 0.896 Spearman ρ, Live in production)
- [Premier League NLP](https://github.com/James-Njoroge/nlp-final): Forecasting EPL team performance with natural language processing. (30+ seasons of EPL data, Full NLP pipeline)
- [Multilingual NLP Models](https://github.com/James-Njoroge/nlp-midterm): Benchmarking language models across multiple languages.

## Writing
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## Links
- Website: https://jnjoroge.dev
- GitHub: https://github.com/James-Njoroge
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-ngugi-njoroge/
- Email: jngugi@bu.edu
- Resume (PDF): https://jnjoroge.dev/files/James-Njoroge-Resume.pdf
- Structured resume (JSON Resume): https://jnjoroge.dev/resume.json
- RSS: https://jnjoroge.dev/feed.xml

## Contact
James Njoroge is open to AI/ML engineering roles and collaborations. Reach out via email or LinkedIn above.