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Building practical AI for finance, language, and public-impact systems.
I build AI systems across finance, NLP, computer vision, and public-impact data products. My background blends 10+ years of software and engineering experience with 4+ years focused on data science, MLOps, and data pipelines, plus 6+ years in teaching and research.
Current Focus
AI systems that move from prototype to production.
GenAI assistants, MLOps pipelines, multilingual NLP, and high-trust decision support.
About
Engineering depth with research-driven execution.
Specialized in Python, MLOps, streaming/data pipelines, and AI deployment on AWS and Google Cloud.
Hands-on with LLMs, RAG systems, fine-tuning, multimodal AI, and multilingual interfaces.
Built production systems for financial services, business intelligence, healthcare, education, and operational automation.
Skills
Tools I reach for when the work needs to ship.
Machine Learning
Scikit-learnTensorFlowPyTorchTransformersSentencePiece
MLOps
KubeflowMLflowKServeSeldon CoreEvidentlyFeast
Data Engineering
AirflowKafkaSpark SQLPipelinesETLWarehousing
GenAI
RAGFine-tuningAgentic AIVLLMLangChainGoogle GenAI
Cloud and APIs
AWSGoogle CloudFastAPIDockerGitHub CI/CDPostgres
Languages
PythonJavaJavaScriptSQLNoSQL
Experience
Leadership, research, and production delivery across domains.
Jun 2025 - Present
Lead, Data and Insights Analyst
Kacha Digital Financial Service S.C.
Leads data strategy and analytics for financial products, combining ingestion, scoring, and decision support.
Aug 2024 - May 2025
Senior Data Scientist
Kifiya Financial Technology
Worked on alternative credit scoring, feature engineering, and production MLOps for collateral-free digital lending.
Dec 2022 - Sep 2024
Machine Learning Engineer
Qena Digital Lending, Kifiya Financial Technology
Built and deployed scoring systems, data pipelines, and monitoring workflows for lending products.
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Co-founder and Digital Trainer
Talent-shift Technology Hub
Led training, digital enablement, and hands-on engineering support for learners and early-stage teams.
Jul 2015 - Aug 2023
Lecturer and Researcher
Jimma University
Taught, researched, and mentored across computer science, AI, and data-driven systems.
Education
Formal training in computer science and data engineering.
Education
M.Sc. in Data and Web Engineering
Addis Ababa University
2016 - 2019Education
B.Sc. in Computer Science
Jimma University
2012 - 2015Projects
A curated set of public builds from deep learning to APIs.
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21
projects
Spotlight
Personal Financial Management AI
An AI financial assistant for chat history, goals, budgets, transactions, and smarter money-management workflows.
FINANCE
Personal Financial Management AI
An AI financial assistant for chat history, goals, budgets, transactions, and smarter money-management workflows.
financegenaiapi
GENAI
Ethio Smart Farming
A Retrieval-Augmented Generation system that collects Ethiopian agricultural policies, news, and research to answer stakeholder questions in natural language.
genaidataapi
FINANCE
Credit Scoring AI Agent
A multi-agent credit scoring system that evaluates MSME creditworthiness with API validation, real-time macroeconomic reasoning, and historical score comparison.
financegenaiapi
GENAI
GenAI Ethio Startup Business Advisory
A GenAI-powered startup validation platform for Ethiopian entrepreneurs, covering market potential, policy alignment, and actionable recommendations.
genaifinanceapi
FINANCE
Transaction SMS Extractor
Extracts transaction amount, balance, parties, and timestamps from Ethiopian banking and payment SMS messages.
financeapigenai
DATA
eTrade Scraper API
Scrapes Ethiopian eTrade business registration data by TIN and caches results for repeatable lookups.
dataapi
CV
AI Car Detection
FastAPI service that detects cars in uploaded images with YOLO and can return annotated outputs.
cvapi
CV
Merchandise Compliance Checker
Retail hanger compliance checker that validates shelf/product rules, annotates images, and returns structured results.
cvapi
NLP
AmharicTokenizer
SentencePiece-based tokenizer for Amharic text with a Streamlit interface and CSV export support.
nlpdataapi
NLP
Amharic Word2Vec Embedding
Word embedding work for Amharic language modeling and downstream semantic tasks.
nlpdata
NLP
Amharic Semantic Parser
Deep learning project for semantic parsing and language understanding in Amharic.
nlpgenaidata
NLP
Amharic Lexical Ambiguity Resolver
Uses word embeddings to disambiguate Amharic lexical meaning in context.
nlpdata
NLP
Amharic to English Transliterator
Transliterates Amharic and Tigrinya names into Latin script with cloud and local fallback modes.
nlpapi
DATA
ETH Business Category Standardize
Search and standardization service for Ethiopian business licensing categories and ESIC hierarchy.
dataapi
DATA
ETH Regions to Woredas
Python package for region, zone, and woreda lookup across Ethiopia's administrative hierarchy.
data
CV
Polio Image Classification API
Image classification service for poliovirus-related workflows and automated surveillance support.
cvapihealth
CV
CompareFace Simple Face Recognizer
Face comparison and recognition prototype for identity matching and similarity checks.
cv
CV
Abdominal Disease
Medical AI project for abdominal disease classification and diagnostic support.
cvhealth
DATA
ETH Malaria Case Prediction
Predictive modeling work for malaria case forecasting and public-health analysis in Ethiopia.
datahealth
API
On-Campus Real-Time Navigation Mobile App
Mobile app concept for campus navigation and real-time wayfinding experiences.
apidata
FINANCE
Audited Financial Statement Extractor
Financial OCR and extraction pipeline for turning audited statements into structured data.
financeapigenai
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Research and Presence
Public profiles for publications and shared demos.
Contact
Let’s build something useful and production-ready.
Open to AI, data, MLOps, and applied engineering work.
Primary Email: gashudemman@gmail.com · Backup Email: gashudem26@hulun-ai.com · Phone: +251 941 199 455