israel ogbonna
philomath, builder, cs + math
Stints:
- ai engineer intern @aws; built CozAI, a CLI root-cause analysis agent for Redshift Serverless workflows that cut mean RCA time from 5 hours to 10 minutes.
- swe & robotics intern @apple; built a YOLO + OpenCV vision pipeline for autonomous camera repositioning, reducing per-tick latency from ~140ms to ~14ms.
- cs + math @huston-tillotson; 4.0 GPA, W.E.B. Du Bois Honors Scholar, Dean's List, and president of Apple Coding Club.
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Some Projects
- PII Redaction Proxy; stateless zero-infra LLM API proxy that tokenizes PII before forwarding requests to OpenAI or Anthropic.
- Smart MCP; semantic MCP router that FAISS-indexes upstream tool schemas and exposes a fixed two-tool surface, cutting tool-schema context by ~97%.
- Quanta; voice-first email reply extension that extracts Gmail thread context and inserts polished drafts.
- Nnow; notebook-lm but for tech news.iOS app and automated pipeline that runs every 24hrs for news searching,ranking, podcast script generation, TTS, and FFmpeg episode stitching.
- Autonomous Drone Face Tracking; DJI Tello project using OpenCV face detection and PID control.
Interests:
- building products, developer tools, robotics/computer vision
- reading, discussing philosophy
- soccer, ping pong, cooking, sci-fi
building things I think are useful or just fun :)
God is the greatest