Esona Sisulu

Esona Sisulu

Data Analyst
South Africa
Xhosa, English

About Me

Motivated and detail-oriented professional with experience in AI training, data annotation, red teaming, and reward learning for large language models. Skilled in ensuring accuracy, quality, and safety in AI outputs thro…

Experience

AI Trainer

Invisible Technologies · Remote
Jun 2024 - May 2025 · 10 months

Trained and evaluated NLP models, improving data annotation quality and AI performance. Adapted to changing guidelines and tools in a fast-paced remote environment. Collaborated with cross-functional teams on AI safety and reliability initiatives

PROJECTS

PowerBI_Data_professionals

Duration : 20-Aug-2025 - 20-Aug-2025

Power BI – Data Professionals Survey Dashboard Analyzed a global survey of data professionals to uncover insights on salaries, career challenges, occupations, and work-life balance. Cleaned and transformed the dataset in Power BI (splitting columns, creating calculated fields, handling missing values) before building an interactive dashboard. Delivered visualizations highlighting salary distribution by country/role, entry challenges into the data field, occupational breakdowns, and work-life balance trends.

MySQL – Global Layoffs Analysis

Duration : 18-Aug-2025 - 18-Aug-2025

Analyzed 2,300+ records of company layoffs across industries and countries. Performed data cleaning (removing duplicates, handling nulls, standardizing values) and transformations in MySQL. Explored trends in layoffs by industry, geography, company stage, funding relationships, and time distribution.

Insurance Claim Prediction

Duration : 07-Jul-2025 - 10-Jul-2025

Built an end-to-end regression pipeline to predict insurance losses using structured data (188K+ records). Applied data cleaning, outlier treatment, and categorical encoding. Engineered features by removing low-variance, correlated, and redundant variables. Trained and tuned models including Random Forest, achieving improved RMSE through hyperparameter optimization.

House Price Prediction

Duration : 05-Jun-2025 - 07-Jun-2025

Regression Project Built an end-to-end machine learning regression pipeline, including data cleaning, feature engineering, model development, and validation. Implemented and compared multiple models (Linear, Ridge, Lasso, ElasticNet, Random Forest, XGBoost, KNN, SVR, MLP) using metrics such as MSE and R², with hyperparameter tuning through grid search and cross-validation.

Skills

Data preprocessing Classification Regression Model evaluation Python Pandas NumPy SQL Jupyter Notebook GitHub Analytical thinking Communication Collaboration Continuous learner Matplotlib Seaborn Bokeh PyTorch TensorFlow CNNs Google Workspace Project management Meeting management Power BI Linear Regression Random Forest XGBoost MLP Cross-validation Flask API Hyperparameter tuning Ensemble learning
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