Adam Lawal

Statistics Undergraduate, University of Lagos

Data Scientist & Product Builder · Lagos, Nigeria

Adam Lawal

Hi! I'm a statistics undergraduate at the University of Lagos and a data scientist in Lagos, Nigeria. The short version of what I do: I analyse things, then I build them.

Most of my work starts as a Lagos-sized problem. So far I've built a skill-verification engine for Nigeria's 41 million informal workers (Recivo, 2nd of 1,600+ teams at GTCO Squad 3.0); designed and shipped a verified student-housing marketplace solo, end-to-end (Setld); and built an AI symptom checker with a doctor-review workflow (Soma). When I'm not building, I'm investigating: in-depth analyses on the reality of real estate in Lagos, whether headline sentiment moves engagement, and what predicts learner outcomes at ALX Nigeria.

Outside of building, I facilitated the data science track at CJID's AI Campus Network at UNILAG, and I now serve on the training & competitions core team at GDGoC UNILAG. I also co-founded a 50+ member data science study group and spoke to 200+ high-school students at YIBA TechUp.

Non-work-wise, I shoot photos and video, sketch, and read widely enough to maintain a respectable bank of not-yet-useful knowledge.

Selected Projects

Three shipped products. Full list →

Skill Verification · Informal Economy · AI
Recivo
The credentialing and reach platform for the informal economy
Adam Lawal
GTCO Squad Hackathon 3.0, 2026 - 2nd of 1,600+ teams · $2,100
what it does
A skill-verification engine for Nigeria's 41 million informal workers. Deterministic action-scorer plus reasoning-based articulation scoring; powers verifiable credentials and Squad-routed escrow payments.
Housing · Marketplace · Full-Stack
Verified student-housing marketplace for Nigerian students
Adam Lawal
setldin.com · 2025 - FastAPI, React, WebSockets, PostgreSQL
what it does
A verified student-housing marketplace built solo, end-to-end, against Nigeria's $800M+ student housing deficit. 4,000+ views and 100+ signups in the first two weeks with zero paid promotion.
Health · Machine Learning · AI
Soma
AI diagnostic tool for common communicable diseases
Adam Lawal
AltSchool AI/ML Hackathon, 2025 - Scikit-learn, FastAPI, React
what it does
Multiclass ML symptom checker with probability distributions, confidence scores, and a doctor-review workflow. 50+ users and 300+ page views in week one.

Selected Writing

In-depth analyses on Medium. Full list →

EDA · Housing · Lagos
The Reality of Real Estate in Lagos State
Adam Lawal
Medium, 2026
A/B Testing · NLP · Reddit
A/B Test on Headline Sentiment & Engagement
Adam Lawal
Medium, 2025

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Service & Community

I facilitated the data science track at CJID's AI Campus Network at UNILAG (Jul–Dec 2025), taking a cohort of undergraduates from ideation to working projects in foundational data science and Python. I now serve on the training & competitions core team at GDGoC UNILAG (Jan 2026–present), where I design curricula and coordinate hackathons.

Along the way I co-founded a 50+ member Data Science study group and spoke to 200+ high-school students at YIBA TechUp about building with purpose.

The Early Years the long version, if you're curious

I started early, mostly by accident of stubbornness. At 15 I was a software engineering intern at Microsoft ADC - one of 20 high-school students selected from 5,000+ nationwide - where I led a 10-person team to build an Arduino/C++ smart-waste prototype, shipped in agile sprints. We went on to win 2nd at the Microsoft ADC Hackathon. That set the pattern.

University came with its own fuel: I'm a FATE Foundation Scholar (selected from 2,000+ applicants), a 234 Project Grace Scholar, and an Afara Initiative Bridge Fellow. Alongside UNILAG I completed a Diploma in Data Science at AltSchool Africa - First Class. Before all of this sounds too tidy: most of it was figured out in public, one shipped thing at a time.