AI Systems Engineer
Addis Ababa, EthiopiaUTC+3Available

Most of what I build ships into other people’s businesses rather than my own — production systems handling real money, real customers, and real consequences when they get something wrong.

Projects in production
23+Projects in production
Freelancer on Upwork
Top 3%Freelancer on Upwork
  • Python
  • Go
  • Node.js
  • React
  • Next.js
  • FastAPI
  • Django
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • n8n
  • Docker
  • AWS

Selected Work

All in Production
  • 01Lending · KYC

    Mālama Funding

    AI document verification and automated underwriting for a US private-money lender in 44 states. Two extraction passes must agree; doubt routes to a human review queue, never into a loan decision.

    FastAPI · LangChain · LangGraph · n8n · Docker

    Visit malamafunding.com
    malamafunding.com
    Mālama Funding website
  • 02Real-time Voice

    Investor Callback

    AI voice agents that call and qualify real-estate leads 24/7. Streaming STT → LLM → TTS overlapped for sub-second turns, with barge-in, voicemail detection, and human handoff.

    FastAPI · Twilio · Streaming STT/TTS · Redis

    Visit investorcallback.com
    investorcallback.com
    Investor Callback website
  • 03Property · AVM

    Moov Homes

    Valuation engine for a UK home-buying service: comparables over recent sales and EPC data, an offer range with a confidence score — and low confidence routes to a human surveyor within one working day.

    Python · PostgreSQL · Comparables Pipeline

    Visit moovhomes.co.uk
    moovhomes.co.uk
    Moov Homes website
  • 04AI Video · SaaS

    SmartAIVideo

    AI video platform that takes a concept to a finished cut — script generation, studio-quality voiceover in 40+ languages, multi-layer compositing, and scheduled publishing.

    Next.js · LLM Pipeline · TTS · Vercel

    Visit ai-video-eight.vercel.app
    ai-video-eight.vercel.app
    SmartAIVideo website
  • 05Education · LLM

    SkillBridge Academy

    AI-powered preparation for Rwandan national exams — multilingual practice, marking, and step-by-step explanations instead of answer keys.

    Next.js · Python · LLM Pipeline

    Visit skillbridge.academy
    skillbridge.academy
    SkillBridge Academy website
  • 06Brand OS · SaaS

    BrandVision

    AI-powered brand operating system. Backend and AI orchestration behind the product — brand memory that persists across sessions, predictive market insight, and campaign generation.

    Node.js · Next.js

    Visit brandvision.one
    brandvision.one
    BrandVision website

Client Testimonial

On Record

A client on camera, unedited.

“Asked My Clients What It’s Really Like to Work With Me” — no script, no cuts.

Watch on YouTube

Career

Experience — On the Ledger
  • 06/2025 — PresentRemote

    Upwork

    Freelance Software Engineer

    Top Rated Plus (Top 3%)

    Delivered 23 production-grade solutions for startups and small businesses across backend, frontend, and automation — the same work that anchors the systems above.

    Python · FastAPI · Django · Node · React / Next.js · PostgreSQL · Docker · AWS · n8n · Make.com

  • 08/2024 — 09/2025United States

    Mālama Funding

    Backend Developer & Automation Engineer

    Built a lending platform with AI-powered document verification for KYC, automated workflows, and secure user management — backend services and orchestration on containerized deployments.

    FastAPI · LangChain · LangGraph · n8n · Docker

  • 02/2024 — 08/2025United Kingdom

    AuraSpot

    Software Engineer (Remote)

    Optimized queries for a 50k+ user platform, cutting average execution time by 32% and AWS deploy time by 26% via CI/CD caching and parallel builds, while building responsive React interfaces.

    Users on platform
    50k+
    Query time
    −32%
    AWS deploy time
    −26%

    Django · PostgreSQL · AWS · Docker · CI/CD · React · Redis · Celery

  • 06/2024 — 09/2024Ethiopia

    Eskalate

    Backend Developer

    Engineered a Go REST API on Clean Architecture, reducing average response time by 15% (120ms → 102ms) through goroutine concurrency and PostgreSQL indexing, pooling, and query tuning.

    Response time · 120ms → 102ms
    −15%

    Golang · PostgreSQL · Docker · CI/CD · Testify · JWT

Education

  • 02/2018 — 06/2022Adama, Ethiopia

    Adama Science & Technology University (ASTU)

    BSc, Software Engineering

    Coursework in Algorithms, Advanced Distributed Systems, Database Design, and Cloud Computing.

  • 01/2024 — 2025Remote

    A2SV — Africa to Silicon Valley

    Competitive Programming & Coding Academy

    Backed by Google

    Solved 1000+ competitive programming problems on LeetCode and Codeforces, with hands-on real-world project development and interview preparation.

    Problems solved
    1000+

Certifications & Honors

  • 01

    A2SV Hackathon Semi-Finalist

  • 02

    ALX Software Engineering Certificate

  • 03

    Evangadi MERN Stack Development Bootcamp

  • 04

    Top 0.00001% result — Grade 12 national exam

  • 05

    CSEC ASTU — Head of Competitive Programming: led 15+ weekly coding sessions and organized 3 inter-university hackathons

About

The person behind the systems

Teaching systems to say “I’m not sure.”

I’m a software engineer in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I work on the unglamorous end of AI — systems that run every day inside companies I don’t own, where the people depending on them never see the model, only whether it got the answer right.

I came up through a software engineering degree at ASTU and A2SV (Google-backed), then through Upwork, where 23+ delivered projects taught me the thing courses don’t: clients pay for working, not for clever. The thread through all of it is uncertainty — teaching systems to say “I’m not sure” and hand off to a human instead of guessing.

I’m looking for a team building AI products where correctness actually matters — and I’m happy being the person who asks what happens when the model is wrong.

Next Step

Open to new work

Let’s build something that holds up.

Top 3% on Upwork · 23+ systems in production · Addis Ababa, UTC+3

abdiesayasbayisa@gmail.com