Patrick Munyingi Kahiga
DATA SCIENTIST
Nairobi
Summary
Data Professional with experience delivering end-to-end analytical solutions, predictive models, financial insights, and executive-level reporting. Skilled in Python, R, SQL, Azure, Power BI, and statistical modelling, I have proven and verifiable track record to translate complex data into business strategy, support decision-making for senior leadership, and lead cross-functional analytics projects.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Data Scientist
Africa Risk Capacity
09.2023 - Current
- Delivered ML-driven analytics influencing £60M+ in financial outcomes across multi-year programmes.
- Built forecasting engines, regression models, anomaly detectors and stochastic simulations for exposure estimation, earnings-style projections and capital-stress scenarios.
- Applied ML and statistical modelling (including Copula-based dependencies) to risk estimation, exposure forecasting and portfolio-level decision-support, highly transferable to lending analytics.
- Engineered Azure-based deployments, increasing model reliability, observability and reproducibility.
- Automated Python + SQL ETL pipelines across financial, operational and portfolio datasets cutting processing time by 60% and strengthening data quality for modelling.
- Designed Power BI and Streamlit dashboards for KPI tracking, scenario testing, portfolio risk signals and executive decision-support.
- Performed financial modelling, pricing optimizations, stress testing and P&L variance analytics, supporting planning and investment-style resource allocation.
- Led data QA, harmonization, outlier treatment, sensitivity analysis and formal model documentation aligned with governance, version control, and audit standards
- Built predictive and pricing models using large-scale time-series and geospatial datasets, generating £2.1M+ in earned revenue.
Actuarial Summer Analyst
Kenbright Holdings
05.2023 - 08.2023
- Automated actuarial and operational workflows using Python and R. Performed claims analytics, reserving analysis, and data quality reviews.
- Conducted exploratory analysis and feature engineering for actuarial datasets.
- Produced analytical dashboards and summaries to support pricing and reporting teams.
- Led and mentored a team of 20 analysts across analytics deliverables.
Junior Machine Learning Engineer
Omdena
08.2022 - 05.2023
- Developed ML models including an 86%-accurate credit scoring model and a customer churn classifier.
- Conducted advanced feature engineering, model tuning, validation, and documentation.
- Performed geospatial preprocessing and dataset augmentation for improved model robustness.
- Produced dashboards and analytical summaries used by technical and business teams.
Data Analyst
Social Health Authority
05.2021 - 11.2021
- - Performed claims analytics, fraud detection support, and operational reporting.
- - Identified 50+ non-compliant facilities and supported contracting for 250+ providers.
- - Extracted, cleaned, and transformed data using SQL and Excel.
- - Generated dashboards and operational insights for management.
Education
BSc - Actuarial Science
Catholic University of Eastern Africa
Nairobi01.2022
Skills
Data Visualization: Power BI, Streamlit, plotly, seaborn, matplotlib , tableau, Databricks
Certification
- SQL Certification
Timeline
- Financial Modelling — Strathmore University
11-2025
Data Scientist
Africa Risk Capacity
09.2023 - Current
Actuarial Summer Analyst
Kenbright Holdings
05.2023 - 08.2023
- SQL Certification
12-2022
- Google Data Analytics Certificate
08-2022
Junior Machine Learning Engineer
Omdena
08.2022 - 05.2023
Data Analyst
Social Health Authority
05.2021 - 11.2021
BSc - Actuarial Science
Catholic University of Eastern Africa