About
Machine Learning Engineer and Statistician with 3+ years of experience in data engineering, ETL pipelines, and AI/ML operations. Currently working in reinforcement learning and interpretable AI at the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute, specializing in AI applications for healthcare and finance. Skilled in Python, SQL, TensorFlow, and Keras, with hands-on experience building end-to-end data pipelines, validating data quality, and developing machine-learning models for medical imaging and financial data. Holds AWS AI Practitioner and Udacity Data Analysis Fundamentals certifications. Passionate about leveraging data operations and AI to enhance reliability and accessibility in under-resourced settings.
What I'm looking for
I’m looking for a remote role as an ML Engineer, AI Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, Data Scientist, or AI/Data Annotator. I’m interested in LLMs, RAG, AI agents, NLP, computer vision, speech AI, predictive modeling, and NLP/LLM data annotation. I bring a strong statistical foundation and hands-on experience building, evaluating, and deploying end-to-end machine learning systems, and I’m eager to contribute to practical, high-impact AI projects with collaborative remote teams worldwide projects.
Experience
Machine Learning Engineer
Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute
Jan 2022 – Present
• Monitored and managed data pipelines and ETL workflows, ensuring data integrity and reliability across AI and ML projects.
• Developed and deployed AI models for computer vision classification, achieving high accuracy in detecting diseased wheat leaves, helping farmers take preventive action earlier.
• Built an AI-driven recruitment system leveraging Streamlit, Ollama models, and AI agents (Extractor, Matcher, Screener, Recommender, Orchestrator), automating candidate screening and reducing manual effort.
• Validated data quality and integrity at each stage of processing, identifying and resolving data inconsistencies and errors to improve training efficiency.
• Generated reports on data operations metrics and quality KPIs to support decision-making by cross-functional stakeholders.
• Optimized deep learning pipelines, improving model inference time and scalability for real-world deployment.
• Designed and implemented data preprocessing workflows, enhancing data quality for machine learning models.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to integrate AI solutions into business operations, maintaining documentation of operational workflows and procedures.
• Worked with TensorFlow, PyTorch, OpenCV, FastAPI, Docker, and PostgreSQL for robust and scalable AI deployments.
• Worked on annotating data to fine tune LLMs, for Ethiopian local language ASR development and for so many NLP projects.
TensorFlowPyTorchPostgreSQL
Trainee — AI Mastery Program
10 Academy / Kifiya Financial Technology
Aug 2024 – Mar 2025
• Built and managed ETL pipelines with DBT transformation, data warehousing, and DVC for version control across fintech datasets.
• Applied Advanced SQL for data analysis, pipeline development, and complex data querying.
• Preprocessed and analyzed diverse datasets, ensuring robustness for model training in financial analytics contexts.
• Fine-tuned deep learning models for image classification and sentiment analysis tasks.
• Implemented data scraping pipelines for platforms such as Telegram.
• Produced client-facing reports, dashboards, and presentations as part of fintech data operations projects.
• Explored LLMs and explainability frameworks (e.g., SHAP) for advanced analytics.
DBT TransformationSQLDVC
Education
Hawassa University, College of Natural and Computational Sciences
Master of Science · Biostatistics
2021 – 2023
Dilla University, College of Natural and Computational Sciences
Bachelor of Science · Applied Statistics
2018 – 2021
Certifications
AWS AI Practitioner
Udacity
Apr 2026 – No expiry
Kifiya AI Mastery Training Program (ML Engineering, Data Engineering, Financial Analysis)
10 Academy
Mar 2025 – No expiry
Data Analysis Fundamentals
Udacity
Sep 2024 – No expiry
Skills
AI AgentsMLOpsMachine LearningLangChainHugging FacePythonKerasStreamlitFastAPIOpenCVPyTorchTensorFlowDockerPostgreSQLSQLData ValidationData Version ControlDBT TransformationData WarehousingETL Pipelines
Languages
English (Professional working proficiency)Amharic (Native or bilingual proficiency)
