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Olu Ogidan

"We should probably do something with AI" is where a lot of teams get stuck. That's the conversation I show up for — figuring out the workflow actually worth touching, building the system, and staying through the part where people start using it. My background spans Big 4 consulting, work as a congressional staffer, and independent client work, mostly in messy environments where the stakes are real.

Last updated
August 2026
Based in
Washington, DC
Email
olu.ogidan@outlook.com
Profiles
LinkedIn ↗ GitHub ↗
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Experience / 02

Four roles, one through-line.

  1. U.S. Congress

    Congressional Staffer

    • Advise a member of Congress on housing and tax policy.
    • Develop and analyze legislative proposals; prepare vote recommendations, briefing memoranda, hearing materials, and policy analysis; represent the office in stakeholder meetings; and coordinate with committee, agency, and congressional staff to advance portfolio priorities.
    • Translate complex policy, economic, and technical developments into decision-ready analysis and communications.

  2. Anchor Data Studio

    Independent Data & AI Consultant

    • Lead data and AI implementation engagements for mission-driven clients — scoping use cases, defining where human review is required, and building the systems that ship.
    • Cut the time staff at an international capacity-building organization spent finding qualified experts by at least 50% by consolidating and standardizing vendor records into a searchable Excel tool built with Power Query and VBA.
    • Supported a separate client's successful $25M+ grant award by consolidating eight data sources spanning approximately 150 projects across 30 countries into an executive Power BI dashboard used for reporting and grant applications.
    • Reduced data errors for a cybersecurity client by approximately 30%, based on the client's estimate, by standardizing multi-owner inputs, automating consolidation into SQL, and delivering auditable Power BI reporting.

  3. PwC LLP

    Senior Consultant, Deals Technology

    • Cleared a diligence issue for a nine-figure global transaction by leading four analysts who tested a sell-side allegation across multiple regions and delivered evidence to counsel that helped determine the claim was unsupported.
    • Cut a journal-entry processing cycle from at least one week to approximately one day and reduced staffing required from three or four people to one or two by standardizing two-system data flows, automating extraction, and flagging exceptions for human review.
    • Materially increased a client's valuation ahead of a potential sale by showing that apparent customer churn reflected account consolidation while underlying revenue continued to grow.

  4. KPMG LLP

    Associate / Senior Associate, Tax Data & Analytics

    • Created the foundation for a new cloud-delivered service line that generated $500K+ in first-year revenue by building automation that reviewed tax models and produced client-ready PowerPoint findings; internally, the workflow cut one to two days of work to a few hours.
    • Generated $300K+ in first-year revenue by building a dynamic Excel model that helped clients evaluate state tax treatment under different Tax Cuts and Jobs Act scenarios.
    • Received KPMG's Chairman's Award for client service, leadership, collegiality, and teamwork; also helped organize a Denver-area volunteer day engaging 250+ colleagues.

Products / 03

Things I've shipped.

  1. Kudoyo

    ~50 users

    AI career-memory platform for knowledge workers — captures wins, feedback, and milestones, then turns them into grounded reviews, resume bullets, and interview stories. Hybrid retrieval with pgvector + keyword fallback. FastAPI, React, Postgres, Stripe.

  2. Project Sprout

    In beta

    Trust-first debt-planning app with a five-phase tier model. Known / rough / later inputs, visible math, no black-box optimization.

Fellowships / 04

Fellowships & programs.

  1. BASE — Black in AI Safety and Ethics

    Fellow, Governance Track

    Selected for the inaugural 13-week BASE Fellowship developing Black researchers and practitioners in AI alignment, security, and governance. Mentored capstone in AI governance.

  2. Clay AlphaForge

    GTM Engineering Bootcamp

    Inaugural cohort (18 selected out of 1,500 applicants). Four weeks building production GTM systems in Clay, with a portfolio of ~12 GTME projects.

  3. DataExpert.io

    Data & AI Engineering Certificate

    Data & AI Engineering Certificate (Zach Wilson cohort). Pipelines, data modeling, and applied AI patterns.

  4. BLCK VC

    Venture Fellow

    Developed investment theses across housing, energy, and aging sectors. Advised early-stage founders on product, GTM strategy, and AI integration.

  5. Terra.do

    Climate Fellow

    Built a climate action plan detailing opportunities in ocean carbon sinks and food-waste reduction as climate-mitigation levers.

Education / 05

Education

  1. University of Chicago

    Master of Public Policy (MPP), concentrations in Data Science and Finance

  2. Colorado State University

    BS Business Administration, concentrations in Supply Chain Management and Computer Information Systems

Skills / 06

Skills

Build
Python, SQL, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, Postgres, pgvector, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Power BI, Excel/VBA, OpenAI / Claude / Gemini APIs, Claude Code, agent scaffolds, model evaluations
Deliver & Adopt
Customer-facing scoping, workflow design, deployment, change management, stakeholder synthesis, AI guardrails, training non-technical teams, Clay CRM, GTM systems
Domains
Housing, tax, climate / energy, legislative operations, M&A and deals technology, social impact, AI governance
Languages
English (native), Spanish (conversational)

Next / 07

Building useful AI where stakes are real.

Open to forward-deployed engineering, solutions engineering, data and AI engineering, partnerships, and GTM engineering roles — and to consulting engagements with teams trying to figure out what AI is actually worth building.

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