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Career

Experience

I have shipped production software across AI platforms, financial analytics, marketplaces, and education as an engineer, a lead, and a teacher.

Software & AI Engineer

  • Building AI features with LLMs, embeddings, and semantic search
  • Designing scalable backend APIs and microservices
  • Developing dashboards, reporting, and forecasting features
  • Creating database schemas and data workflows
  • Integrating third-party and financial-data services
  • Implementing authentication and role-based access
  • Deploying applications to AWS, GCP, and Vercel
  • Leading engineering teams and technical decisions
  • Teaching Data Structures, Algorithms, and competitive programming
  • Debugging production issues and mentoring developers

Software / AI Engineer

SuitSolutionsGroup (SSG)

Oct 2024 – Present

Remote · Full-time

  • Building FinanceIQ, an AI-driven financial analytics platform serving 50+ companies across the United States.
  • Engineered scalable microservices powering financial reporting, dashboards, and forecasting.
  • Integrated LLM features: semantic search, recommendations, and an AI CFO chatbot for natural-language financial analysis.

Lead Software Engineer

Africa to Silicon Valley

Feb 2023 – Oct 2024

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia · Full-time

  • Led a team of 10 developers building Bazar, an AI-powered marketplace for homes and cars.
  • Built two OpenAI-powered chatbots: a personal listing assistant and an embeddings-based product recommendation engine.
  • Worked across Go, Node.js, MongoDB, the OpenAI API, and embeddings.
  • Delivered Data Structures & Algorithms workshops, guiding students toward internships (2 at Bloomberg, 1 at Goldman Sachs).

Software Engineer Intern

Eskalate

Oct 2023 – Feb 2024

Accra, Ghana · On-site

  • Project leader for the EasyListing project.
  • Worked closely with the product and UI teams across Flutter and back-end development.

Head of Education

Africa to Silicon Valley

Aug 2022 – Oct 2023

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia · Full-time

  • Delivered lectures on Data Structures, Algorithms, and competitive programming in Python.
  • Mentored high-potential African engineers toward top global tech roles.

Education

Education & Training

Where I built my foundations in engineering, algorithms, and problem-solving.

Addis Ababa University

B.Sc. in Electrical & Computer Engineering

Sep 2019 – Jul 2026 (expected)

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • Addis Ababa University is ranked 1st in Ethiopia and 6th in Africa.
  • Relevant coursework: OOP, Digital Logic Design, Databases, Computational Methods, Applied Mathematics.

Africa to Silicon Valley (A2SV)

Competitive Software Engineering Program

Dec 2021 – Oct 2022

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • Selected for an elite program upskilling high-potential African engineers.
  • A2SV has placed 60+ students at Google, Bloomberg, Databricks, Amazon, and LinkedIn.
  • Promoted to Head of Education.

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