About and contact

Backend AI Engineer.

Backend AI Engineer focused on ML systems, system design, distributed systems, and blockchain infrastructure.

Interactive Resume

A glance at my background.

Explore the detailed trajectory of my work, or grab a copy for yourself.

Resume Preview Download PDF
Interact to view

PDF viewer not available.

Download instead

Education

Academic and training foundation.

2023 - 2027

Addis Ababa University

BSc Software Engineering

GPA 3.93/4.00. Focus: algorithms, distributed systems, OS, databases, networking, ML.

Jan 2025 - Nov 2025

A2SV - Africa to Silicon Valley

DSA and Backend Development in Go

800+ LeetCode/Codeforces problems, graph theory, dynamic programming, Go clean architecture.

Experience

Practical work with measurable outcomes.

iCog Labs

AI Researcher / Optimization and Machine Learning

Mar 2025 - Sep 2025

  • 4x MeTTa-Moses speedup
  • NumPy neural network library
  • Distributed LLM filtration system

Kyoto Creative

Backend and DevOps Engineer

Jan 2025 - Feb 2025

  • GCP microservices
  • Kubernetes deployment
  • WebSocket reliability and PostgreSQL tuning

GDG on Campus AAU

Technical Mentor

Feb 2024 - Jun 2024

  • Mentored 48+ students
  • Led 7 developers
  • Set code review and CI/CD standards

Achievements

  • GDG Hackathon Winner: 15,000 ETB library management solution.
  • Python instructor for 500+ students.
  • Open source contributor: MeTTa-Moses, MeTTaLog, Sugar Labs, OpenELIS Global.

Skills

Tooling grouped by how it ships value.

ML

RAGMCPTensorFlowNumPyLangChainOptimization

Backend

GoFastAPINestJSgRPCGraphQLRedis

Distributed / Blockchain

RustEthereumSolidityVyperSolanaKademliaP2P

Data

PostgreSQLMongoDBNeo4jMySQLscikit-learn

Natnael Yohanes

Backend AI Engineer focused on ML systems, system design, distributed systems, and blockchain infrastructure.