Work
Data platforms first, then AI engineering and research. Each case study names the constraint, the decision and the evidence.
AI engineering
- 2026 to nowLocal RAG assistant with SSO, PII redaction and an audit log
A document assistant that runs entirely on local hardware: nginx with TLS, a FastAPI gateway with JWT and Keycloak SSO, PII redaction before inference, AnythingLLM retrieval and Ollama, in Amharic and English.
Public demo - 2025 to 2026Amharic OCR for Ethiopic script with HHD-Ethiopic and MMOCR
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++.
Public demo - 2025Natural language to SQL analytics agent over ClickHouse
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.
Public demobuilt as a technical assessment prototype