Luc Atakpa

Machine learning engineer.

I build AI products end to end, from training and adapting models to shipping full-stack production systems.

PanelWeaver is a platform for creating personalized comic books on demand in minutes, with optional physical print ordering. I am currently focused on growth.

Selected Work

Founder

PanelWeaver, 2025 - Present

Designed, built and operated the full-stack app, async task queue, fault-tolerant AI orchestration harness, print workflow, and deployment pipeline; owned technical, product, and business decisions.

Machine Learning Research Engineer

Medium Biosciences, 2024 - 2025

Trained and fine-tuned protein language, folding, and inverse-folding models for antibody and protein engineering tasks.

Software Engineer

Machine Intelligence For You Inc, 2019 - 2020

Built and deployed a proof-of-concept speech recognition system for Fon, a local language in Benin, using Kaldi, Pykaldi, and Google Cloud Platform.

Background

MS in Information Technology with a Machine Learning focus from Carnegie Mellon University.

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