Work

An independent reference implementation of a CDC analytics pipeline: a public REST API into PostgreSQL, Debezium into Redpanda, ClickHouse with dbt marts, Airflow, Prometheus and Grafana, started with one command.

A fully on-premise, white-label assistant for regulated institutions: nginx with TLS, a FastAPI gateway with JWT and Keycloak SSO, PII redaction before inference, AnythingLLM retrieval and Ollama, in Amharic and English.

A full-stack OCR app for Ethiopic script: hierarchical detection, HHD-Ethiopic CTC recognition with confidence scores, multi-page PDFs and a Next.js canvas, plus an MMOCR research line with SATRN and DBNet++.

A prototype that turns plain-English questions into ClickHouse SQL with a Groq-hosted model and returns tables, charts and a short explanation in a React chat interface; built as a technical assessment prototype.

An independent study of how tokenizer choice, model size and quantization each affect Amharic small language models on a single consumer GPU, with QLoRA recovery tested; submitted to a 2026 workshop, in review.

My first industry role, where I built and maintained the frontend of a software-as-a-service HR and payroll system and integrated it with the backend team's REST APIs.

A two-week data science exercise that cleaned and explored a student records dataset, tested hypotheses about who drops out, and shipped the findings as an interactive Streamlit app.

A set of weekly end-to-end projects from the 10 Academy training programme, covering forecasting, fraud detection, credit scoring, a Telegram-sourced data warehouse and several exploratory analyses.

My final-year project classified cotton leaf diseases from photos with a convolutional network trained by transfer learning, served through a Flask web app and an Android app for use in the field.

A course project that modelled a university library in MySQL, from the extended entity-relationship design through to the relational schema and the SQL scripts behind it.

A native Android app that helps new students, visitors and staff find offices, dormitories, departments and services across the two Wolaita Sodo University campuses.