Kobby
Sintim-Arthur.
Software engineer and data scientist working at the intersection of energy and tech.
I started out reading data and ended up building the systems that produce it. Five years on from my first job in the energy sector, I work across full-stack web applications, documented APIs and the data pipelines underneath them, with a background in reservoir engineering that still shapes how I think about a dataset before I touch it.
How I got here
Software Developer · Edgebrcks
At Edgebrcks I co-developed the CRM the brokerage now runs on, along with the database underneath it and the RESTful APIs that let business users pull clean data without going through a developer. I still keep the codebase healthy: debugging, performance monitoring, and protecting the data integrity that client operations depend on.
Independent Software Engineer
Alongside that I take on client work of my own, building web applications and internal systems and owning them all the way down to the backend architecture. The largest of these is Invoica, a full-stack client management and invoicing platform on Python and PostgreSQL that I designed, built and launched on my own.
MSc Petroleum Engineering · University of Aberdeen
For my thesis I built a deep learning model on a U-Net architecture that automates organic and inorganic pore segmentation in reservoir rock. It replaced interpretation that had always been done by eye, one image at a time.
Data Analyst · Schlumberger (SLB)
Before any of the software work I was at Schlumberger handling live offshore drilling data, which meant being the person onshore teams came to when a sensor drifted or a stream dropped mid-shift. The job was quality control at volume: keeping records complete, catching anomalies quickly, and turning dense technical output into operational logs that people without an engineering background could act on. That is where I learned that most of what makes data useful happens long before anyone analyses it, and it is what moved me from reading what the systems produced to building them myself.
Toolkit
Building
- Python
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- React
- Flask
- REST APIs
Data & machine learning
- PostgreSQL
- Pandas · NumPy
- scikit-learn
- PyTorch · U-Net
- Streamlit
Energy
- Petroleum engineering
- Reservoir characterisation
- Drilling operations data
- Production analysis
Certifications
Certified Associate Data Analyst with Python
PCAD · OpenEDG Python Institute
Certified Associate Python Programmer
PCAP · OpenEDG Python Institute
Also true
Acoustic and electric guitar, and a standing habit of pulling apart whatever framework everyone has just started talking about.