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Media Intelligence · 2024

NewsFoldr Intelligence

End-to-end AI-powered news aggregation platform that ingests over 10,000 articles daily, normalizes data from dozens of Ghanaian sources, and personalizes delivery with LLM-powered summaries.

Role

Founder & Lead Engineer

Timeline

Nov 2021 – Feb 2024

Stack

Python, AWS Lambda, MongoDB, FastAPI, React

Impact

35% lower latency · 10k+ articles/day · Fault tolerant scrapers

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Problem

Ghanaian readers juggle fragmented news experiences, unreliable apps, and repetitive content. NewsFoldr needed resilient ingestion plus intelligent ranking so audiences could trust one platform for radio, print, and blog updates.

Data ingestion

  • Built highly specialized scrapers with IP rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and authentication handling.
  • Used event-driven queues so failures auto-retried without blocking the pipeline.
  • Normalized metadata for downstream AI summarization and topic clustering.

AI layer

  • Added LLM summaries and categorization using microservices deployed on AWS Lambda.
  • Orchestrated caching to cut latency by 35% while preserving freshness.
  • Built responsive web + mobile surfaces to showcase curated feeds.

Outcomes

10k+

Articles ingested daily

35%

Latency improvement via caching + queues

0

Downtime during scraper rotations

Responsibilities

Architecture

Designed microservices and ETL topology spanning ingestion, enrichment, ranking, and delivery.

Product

Handled UX for responsive web/mobile interfaces with Material-inspired cards and typography.

Operations

Instrumented alerts, dashboards, and runbooks to keep a solo-operated platform production-ready.