Addis Ababa University
BSc, Software Engineering
- Operating Systems
- Databases
- Computer Architecture
- Data Structures & Algorithms
- Cryptography
- Enterprise Network Security
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The author block.
I'm Tesfamichael Abebe — a software engineer from Addis Ababa with a strong foundation in full-stack development, backend AI engineering, and applied machine learning.
I'm pursuing a BSc in Software Engineering at Addis Ababa University, and I recently completed a diploma in Applied Generative AI at EPIC Institute of Technology — which is where I built EPIC++, my own statically-typed language and compiler, still my proudest work. Right now I work as an ML engineer and researcher at Synheart, modeling human states from kinematics, and write Rust for an open-source consensus protocol at iCog Labs.
The pattern across everything I build: understand the machine one layer deeper than the job strictly requires. It's why a frontend internship at a payment gateway turned into Go microservice optimization, and why a course assignment turned into a compiler.
Where I've shipped.
- Jun 2026 — present
Synheart AI
ML Engineer & Researcher
Engineering and researching machine-learning systems for kinematics and human state recognition — modeling activity states, postural states, locomotion, and movement regularities.
- Experiment with and train models for human state recognition
- Collect datasets; read and summarize research papers
- Propose system architectures
- Exploring integration into a Human State Inference (HSI) model
- Jun 2026 — present
iCog Labs
AI Engineer Intern
Writing Rust for Cordial Miners, an open-source consensus protocol, at Ethiopia’s pioneering AI lab.
- Merged 9 of 9 pull requests — about 5,500 lines of Rust; 4th most active of 12 contributors
- Fixed a bug that left nodes unable to agree after a network split, and wrongly flagged honest nodes as cheating
- Kept the proof of equivocation at the moment a block is rejected, so it survives for later slashing
- Built the adversarial simulation suite the protocol is now tested against
- Contributed to the OpenPsi codebase in the MeTTa programming language
- Aug — Nov 2025
Chapa Financial Technologies S.C
Frontend Engineer
Built and shipped production payment products for Ethiopia’s leading payment gateway.
- Built the events platform (live at chapa.events) and donations platform (chapa.link/donations)
- Rebuilt 70% of all gateway screens in two weeks with my senior during the redesign — Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
- Helped the backend team optimize Go payment microservices: 300ms responses under concurrent load, race conditions eliminated
- Wrote API contracts on Confluence; met every sprint deadline on Jira
- Jul — Sep 2025
Gebeya Inc
Full Stack Developer
Built a Jira-like HR management application and wired single sign-on across three internal platforms.
- React frontend, NestJS backend, Jest test suite
- Integrated Keycloak SSO across three interconnected platforms: HR management, recruitment, and KPI rewards
- Built the integration logic so data flowed between apps and each responded to the others’ state
- Jun — Jul 2025
Efuyegela
Full Stack Developer Intern
A brief, focused full-stack development internship.
Trained on.
EPIC Institute of Technology
Diploma, Applied Generative AI
- Semester 1: algorithms & data structures, data science (Kaggle competitions), advanced programming languages — built the EPIC++ compiler, mathematics & statistics
- Semester 2: systems architecture & distributed protocols in Rust, networks & cloud engineering (AWS, Docker), applied generative AI — prompt engineering, agent orchestration, LangChain, LangGraph
Symbol table.
languages
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptGoRustJavaDart
frameworks
ReactNext.jsReact NativeFlutterFastAPINestJSGin
ai / ml
PyTorchLangChainLangGraphChromaDBSentence TransformersRAGMCP
data science
NumPyPandasMatplotlibScikit-learn
devops & cloud
DockerNginxAWSAzure
databases
PostgreSQLMongoDBRedisSupabase
other
KeycloakJWTWebSocketsREST APIsLLVM IR
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Competitive programming.
I joined A2SV (Africa to Silicon Valley) this year and solve problems on LeetCode and Codeforces consistently.
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