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About This Engineer

Massa Coulibaly

→Full-stack & forward-deployed engineer. I build software end-to-end and embed with the people who use it — shipping in places where most tools don't reach.

Recent UC Berkeley MIMS graduate. Ex Co-founder & CTO of Afya — USSD-based EMR for Sub-Saharan Africa. Forward-deployed engineer who's architected, shipped, and handed off production systems on-site.

School:UC Berkeley MIMS
Prev:CTO @ Afya
Focus:Health IT · FDE
Seeking:FDE · Full-Stack
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Experience

AI Engineer & Forward Deployed Engineer @ Ascend Partners ↗
2026 – Present

USA

Automating claim processing workflows with AI, and working as the forward deployed engineer who rolls these automations out to the teams that use them.

Data Engineer @ UC Berkeley · Coleman Fung Institute ↗
Sep 2024 – Present

Berkeley, USA

Analyzing 7+ years of MEng student data to model employment outcomes. Built resume-book automation over student PDFs; integrated Salesforce + Qualtrics + PostgreSQL and shipped Tableau dashboards.

Software Engineer @ Public Accountability Lab ↗
2024 – 2025

Remote · Ghana

Solo build of Ghana MMDA Budget Transparency platform on $51K — 1,400+ PDFs across 261 assemblies, AWS + Azure stack.

Forward Deployed & Implementation Engineer @ Friends Eye Center Clinic ↗
May 2023 – Aug 2023

Kumasi, Ghana

Assessed 28 competing solutions, architected a tailored open-source HMS, shipped end-to-end with LAN-based offline sync. Trained 37 staff; doubled clinic revenue.

IT Consultant @ Pittsburgh Lutheran United Ministries (CMU) ↗
Jan 2023 – May 2023

Pittsburgh, USA

IT audits across 8 churches; designed 5 data collection tools consolidating 2,000+ records.

Data Management Intern @ HEC Paris ↗
Oct 2021 – Apr 2022

Doha, Qatar

R + Excel analysis on 1,100+ alumni records; led QA/UX testing for a new platform pre-launch.

Stack Check

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frontend

backend

databases

ml / nlp

llms / agentic ai

data viz / bi

cloud / infra

enterprise / domain

Master's Projects

MIMS '26 — capstones, course projects, and applied research

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OfferBloom — AI Interview Prep

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Full-stack AI interview-prep platform (MIMS Capstone). React + Vite frontend, FastAPI backend, Neo4j graph model, Cloudflare R2 storage, Claude Haiku integration for answer drafting, verbal-practice feedback, and resume coaching.

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ReactViteFastAPINeo4jCloudflare R2Claude HaikuPythonRailway

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  • →Designed Neo4j graph linking users, questions, answers, practices, and files
  • →Seeded 320 role-specific interview questions across 8 roles and 8 categories
  • →Integrated Claude Haiku for AI-assisted answer drafting and verbal-practice feedback
  • →Built resume coaching flow with structured feedback on bullet quality
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Clinical Trial Navigator (CTN)

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Knowledge-graph platform matching sickle-cell patients to eligible clinical trials. Berkeley INFO 290 / DEVENG 204 capstone — addressing the <5% enrollment rate across 250+ active trials.

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PythonDjango 4.2RDF/TurtleSPARQLSHACLrdflibAnthropic APIRailway

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  • →Designed RDF/Turtle data model + RDFS schema with inference; SHACL validation via pySHACL
  • →Built SPARQL eligibility-matching engine over 250 ingested trials
  • →Django web app with patient registry, trial browser, and live matching demo
  • →Pitched $150K seed with TAM/SAM/SOM model targeting expansion to 5 countries
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The Sound of Power — UN Speeches NLP

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ANLP final project. NLP pipeline analyzing rhetorical strategies across 2,069 UN Security Council transcripts using LDA, BERTopic, and transformer-based LLMs.

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PythonBERTopicLDATransformersHuggingFaceAnthropic APIspaCyGensim

highlights

  • →Designed a multi-prompt LLM workflow (HuggingFace + Anthropic API) for thematic comparison across blocs
  • →Tested what drives linguistic variability in diplomatic speeches
  • →Found resolution type outweighs country identity and bloc membership
  • →Cleaned and normalized noisy OCR-extracted text from scanned UN documents
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Joke Generator

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Front-end Web Architecture class project. React app fetching random jokes from an external API in a responsive interface.

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ReactCSSJoke API

highlights

  • →Integrated external Joke API with live fetching on button click
  • →Built with modular, reusable React components
  • →Fully responsive layout that adapts across device sizes

Web Dev & Systems

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Ghana MMDA Budget Transparency

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Architected and built end-to-end ETL pipeline ingesting 1,400+ municipal budget PDFs (2014–2026) across 261 Metropolitan, Municipal & District Assemblies — Ghana's first centralized fiscal transparency platform. Solo build on $51K budget.

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PythonpdfplumbercamelotPostgreSQLReactAWS (RDS/S3/EC2)Azure Form RecognizerGPT APIsVercel

highlights

  • →Format-aware parsing engine routing PDFs across 5 document generations (Old Composite Budget, PBB v1–v4)
  • →Normalized PostgreSQL schema aligned to GFS/COFOG codebooks with currency + inflation adjustments
  • →Validation + approval workflow (Draft → Submitted → Review → Approved → Published) with field-level audit trail
  • →REST API + React dashboards for Budget Explorer, comparative analytics, dev-vs-recurrent splits
  • →Azure Form Recognizer + GPT for OCR/extraction on low-quality scans
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Afya Health Information Systems

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Co-founder & CTO. USSD-based EHR platform enabling clinics in low-resource settings to securely capture patient data offline and sync with national health systems when connectivity returns. Big Ideas Berkeley finalist.

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USSDPythonPostgreSQLOffline-firstHealth IT

highlights

  • →Selected as Big Ideas Berkeley finalist for transforming record-keeping in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • →Designed offline-first sync architecture for intermittent connectivity
  • →USSD interface targets clinics without smartphones or stable internet
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mibegnon-project

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Full-stack scholarship platform with authentication, user dashboard, and automated scholarship scraping — built with Next.js, TypeScript, and Prisma.

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Next.jsTypeScriptPrismaPythonJupyter

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  • →Built role-based auth with protected dashboard and public-facing routes
  • →Automated scholarship discovery via a Python scraper feeding into a Prisma-backed database
  • →Designed schema to track scholarship deadlines, eligibility, and user applications
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FriDom Sounds

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Website for FriDom Sounds, a 10-week artist development program in Abuja supporting emerging African musicians through studio access, mentorship, and community. Client project; source code is private.

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Next.jsReactTypeScriptVercel

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  • →Designed and built the public site presenting the program, its artists, and how to apply
  • →Deployed on Vercel
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DARD South Sudan

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Website for DARD South Sudan, an organization supporting persons with disabilities through rehabilitation, education, and advocacy since 2005. Client project; source code is private.

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Astroi18n (EN/AR)Vercel

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  • →Built a bilingual site in English and Arabic
  • →Pages covering the organization, its programs, projects, impact, leadership, and partners
  • →Deployed on Vercel
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HIMS — Friends Eye Center

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Built a Healthcare Information Management System for a clinic in Ghana on top of OpenEMR. Includes a data migration pipeline using Python and Pandas to move legacy Excel records into the new system.

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PythonPandasSQLOpenEMRGhana 🇬🇭

highlights

  • →Wrote SQL migration scripts via Pandas to transfer clinic data from Excel sheets into the new OpenEMR-based system
  • →Clinic proposal and initial analysis included in the repo — shared with permission from Friends Eye Center
  • →Replaced entirely paper-based workflows across three sites: patient records, billing, and appointments
  • →System still in use 2+ years later; trained KNUST and Technical University of Tamale students to maintain it post-handoff
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Friends Eye Center — Public Website

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Public-facing website for the FEC clinic in Kumasi, Ghana. Marketing, services, and contact for the eye center I previously digitized.

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Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwindVercel

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  • →Designed and shipped a responsive marketing site for the same clinic I built the HMS for
  • →Deployed on Vercel with continuous delivery
  • →Companion piece to the OpenEMR-based HIMS — full lifecycle from clinical software to public web presence

Data Science & AI

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Billboard Hit Prediction Tool

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Built and evaluated four ML models on 3,000+ songs using Spotify, Billboard and YouTube APIs, achieving over 80% accuracy predicting chart success.

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PythonScikit-learnSpotify APIBillboard APIYouTube APIPandas

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  • →Compared Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, and SVM — XGBoost topped 80% accuracy
  • →Handled severe class imbalance between charting and non-charting songs via SMOTE
  • →Engineered audio features (danceability, valence, tempo) into model-ready inputs across 3 APIs
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ETF Stock Analysis

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Constructed time series models to demonstrate the impact of US Unemployment Rate announcements on QQQ, IWM, and SPY ETF prices.

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PythonstatsmodelsARIMAGARCHPandasMatplotlib

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  • →Modeled volatility clustering around macro announcements using GARCH
  • →Ran event-study analysis isolating pre/post announcement price reactions
  • →Aligned non-synchronous financial time series from multiple data sources
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> Massa Coulibaly, Full-Stack & Forward-Deployed Engineer
> Ex CTO @ Afya · UC Berkeley MIMS '26
> Contact: massa@berkeley.edu
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