Founder
Olaoluwa Shaun Faseru

Olaoluwa Shaun Faseru

Founder and Technical Lead

I have spent my career managing and developing machine learning models into production where mistakes are expensive. In financial crime at a UK bank, my work is transaction monitoring: anomaly detection, risk scoring and the daily data pipelines that feed them, at the scale of millions of transactions.

Most of that work is about trust. A model that flags everything is ignored, and a model nobody can explain will not pass review. The craft is in calibrated scores, alerts sized to the team that reviews them, and evidence a regulator will accept.

AI agents now need the same treatment. They act with real credentials, and nobody is watching them the way banks watch payments. I founded BARA Labs to build that monitoring, and to build it in the open.

MSc Artificial Intelligence, University of St Andrews BSc Computer Science with AI, University of Kent Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist and AI Engineer

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Experience

Machine learning in regulated, high-stakes settings.

  1. 2022 to now

    Senior Data Scientist, Financial Crime · UK regulated bank

    Leads AI, machine learning and analytics for the bank's financial crime function: transaction monitoring models, AML risk scoring, alert tuning and large-scale daily data pipelines. Lead data scientist on the bank's transaction monitoring implementation.

  2. 2021 to 2022

    Machine Learning Engineer · Industrial technology manufacturer

    Sole machine learning engineer, building predictive-maintenance and sensor models for diesel engines in mining and construction vehicles, and deploying them to production.

  3. 2020 to 2021

    AI Engineer · Digital health social enterprise

    Built AI capabilities for a provider of digital rehabilitation programmes, including an Innovate UK-funded computer vision project for musculoskeletal conditions.