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Shalom Habtamu

Software Engineer

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

@shalom_habtamu

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About

Software engineering who graduated from Addis Ababa University with experience building backend systems, AI-enabled products, and data pipelines. Strong in Python, Go, and modern web/ML tooling, with project experience across fintech, RAG systems, and collaborative applications.

Experience

  • Software Engineering Intern
    Kifiya Financial Technology · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    Jul 2025 – Jan 2026

    Enhanced backend reliability for a digital lending platform by resolving critical bugs and unhandled operational edge cases across a legacy user-management microservice. Optimized data retrieval by restructuring multi-stage MongoDB aggregation pipelines, reducing query latency by 50%, and automated bank data migration with Python scripts to map and create 1,200+ branch entities.

  • Backend Developer Intern
    Africa to Silicon Valley · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    Mar 2025 – Jun 2025

    Led a cross-functional team of 10 engineers across web, mobile, and backend to build an AI-powered multilingual travel translation platform, managing system design and sprint delivery. Built a contextual RAG pipeline with vector embeddings and Pinecone semantic search, and developed backend REST APIs using Go/Gin and Flask.

Education

  • Bachelor of Science
    Addis Ababa University
    Software Engineering & Computing Technology · May 2022 – Jun 2026

Skills

<3 months <3 months Just getting started - under three months. This is also what shows when a level has not been set.
Go Java NumPy React Flask CI/CD Python Pandas OpenCV NestJS PRISMA FastAPI Node.js PyTorch Express.js JavaScript TypeScript

Tools / apps / platforms

6 to 12 months 6 to 12 months Most of a year behind them.
MongoDB
3 to 6 months 3 to 6 months A few months of practice with it.
OpenAI Pinecone
<3 months <3 months Just getting started - under three months. This is also what shows when a level has not been set.
Git Docker GitHub VS Code Telegram PostgreSQL Hugging Face Atlassian JIRA

Projects

  • EthioMart
    XLM-RoBERTa, Hugging Face

    Fine-tuned a multilingual model on scraped Telegram posts for product, price, and location entity extraction. Built a micro-lending pipeline to evaluate vendor creditworthiness from e-commerce signals.

  • CoSpace
    React, TypeScript, Yjs, WebSockets, Express, Prisma, PostgreSQL

    Interactive collaborative canvas enabling multiple users to draw, edit, and work simultaneously without merge conflicts. Engineered real-time synchronization, live cursor tracking, and persistent board storage.

  • Seam AI
    Web dashboard, Chrome extension, VS Code extension, GitHub, Jira, IndexedDB

    AI-powered development assistant that analyzes team meetings, GitHub, and Jira data to generate sprint insights and summaries. Built a Chrome recording extension with upload recovery using IndexedDB persistence and retry logic.

Courses & certifications

  • Competitive Programming · Africa to Silicon Valley (A2SV) · 2025
  • AI & Data Engineering Trainee · Kifiya AI Mastery Training Program (10 Academy) · 2025

⚽ Extracurricular activities

  • Private Tutor

    Delivered 200+ personalized lessons across core academic subjects, adapting to the student's pace and needs.

  • International Youth Math Challenge (IYMC) Participant

    Participated in an international mathematics competition spanning 140+ countries, solving advanced problem sets.

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