Clinton Imaro

ml, product, infra

Today currently building Siri for codebase at heyfathom.com. 1 exit so far.

I care a lot about design and like to build impossible things. With extreme practicality, I make crazy ideas real. I'm drawn to AI-native products, and to building things that last.

Outside work, I like travelling, tennis, and just collecting those moments. My memories are continuously being warped by new perspectives.

Experience

Code Space
Founder
Building one of the fastest growing communities in Nigeria and across Africa, where Gen Z developers, black builders, founders, and designers come to connect, grow, Impact and discover life-changing opportunities and the next challenge to take on.
Apple
Prev Core ML Engineer Intern
Transformer fine-tuning for intent classification in Siri’s query pipeline. Attention optimizations + latency reductions on internal benchmarks.
Microsoft
Prev Cloud Engineer Intern
Azure deployment automations for enterprise applications. CI/CD pipeline reliability + resource allocation efficiency across deployment environments.

Selected Research

Disaster-aware uav navigation - vision-based hazard classification (mobilenetv2, 85.2% accuracy) + ppo-clip agents, a*/ppo evaluation under simulated disaster conditions under Dr. Peter Taiwo (ITC 2026)
Security research on automated mobility systems at the transportation and urban infrastructure studies lab, under Dr. zulqarnain khattak. focused on ml-based anomaly detection and vulnerability analysis in connected vehicle networks.
Decision modeling research (CDMN) at the computer science department of HOGENT. focused on ml classification pipelines and making model rationale auditable for faculty reviewers.

Publications

Disaster-Aware UAV Path Planning with Vision-Integrated Proximal Policy Optimization

C. Imaro and P. Taiwo · International Telemetering Conference (ITC) 2026 · Accepted, forthcoming Oct 2026

Performance Evaluation of Monocular and Stereo Vision for Autonomous UAV Collision Avoidance in Disaster Response Environments

C. Imaro and P. Taiwo · International Telemetering Conference (ITC) 2026 · Accepted, forthcoming Oct 2026

Connect

I post sometimes on X (twitter) - or send me an email at hi@clintonimaro.com