2024 - PresentMachine Learning Engineer
Upwork
Working with international clients to build production AI applications, LLM systems, RAG pipelines, backend services, cloud infrastructure, text-to-image systems, and speech synthesis products.
- Architected distributed backend systems benchmarked for 10,000+ concurrent users.
- Deployed multi-provider LLM redundancy and near-zero interruption RAG pipelines.
- Reduced latency from roughly 30 seconds to under 300 milliseconds with GPU-backed optimization.
2023 - 2024AI Researcher
Addis Ababa University
Developed an NLP threat detection system for live social and communication contexts, later adopted for practical use by the Ethiopian government.
- Built applied NLP models for hate speech and threat detection.
- Won Best Researcher and Best Poster Presenter for the capstone research.
- Focused on societal-impact AI, methodology, and applied deployment.
2021 - 2023Algorithms Instructor
Africa to Silicon Valley (A2SV)
Mentored students on algorithms, competitive programming, backend projects, and hackathons while contributing to product development and high-performance problem-solving culture.
- Helped drive a 20% increase in top-tier student placements.
- Solved 1,000+ algorithmic challenges across LeetCode and Codeforces.
- Contributed to hackathon-winning backend and offline-first systems.