Master of Science in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Lipscomb University
2026 – Expected 2027
About
I build data systems now. I got here through every layer underneath them.
- Technology Support
- Enterprise Systems
- Cloud
- Analytics
- Data Engineering
- Applied AI
Each of those layers taught me something the next one assumed I already knew. Support taught me what actually breaks and who it costs. Enterprise systems taught me that most of what looks like a tooling problem is a process problem wearing a tooling costume. Cloud and analytics taught me that a system nobody can observe is a system nobody can improve.
Moving across those layers gave me something narrower specialisation does not: a working picture of how users, infrastructure, applications, business processes, and data actually connect. The interesting problems are rarely inside one of those. They sit in the seams between them, where a reporting gap turns out to be a permissions decision made three years earlier, or a slow process turns out to be two teams holding different definitions of the same field. That is the view I bring to data work.
Today I work as a data engineer, and I am pursuing a Master of Science in Applied Artificial Intelligence at Lipscomb University alongside it. The degree is not a pivot. It is the same question I have been working on the whole time, asked one layer higher: what has to be true underneath before a system can be trusted to help someone.
How I Work
Three principles, one steady direction.
Practical over performative
The best systems are the ones people actually use. I measure work by clarity, ease, and the quiet way it improves someone's day. If a tool looks impressive but nobody touches it, it failed.
Systems before silos
Tools, data, and people belong in the same conversation. I work where those edges meet, so information moves, decisions get made, and the work stays connected. Silos are where good work goes to be forgotten.
Service earns the seat
Technology earns its place by making work easier, fairer, and more human. The point is never the technology. It is the people on the other side of it. Every system I build is judged by what it does for them.
Technical expertise
What I work with.
The full stack is grouped by discipline rather than ranked by confidence, alongside the three practice areas it supports.
Personal
Hi, I'm Asha.
- Originally from Kenya. Now in Tennessee.
- I speak three languages and a handful of dialects.
- I work where technology meets the people who use it.
Education & credentials
Where the foundation comes from.
Bachelor of Science in Technology Management
Lipscomb University
2025
Also completed
- Associate of Science in Information Technology Nashville State Community College
- Backend Software Development Certificate Promineo Tech · Java, SQL, REST APIs
Certifications and the full resume live on the Contact page.