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Daniel Zerihun Geda

@danielzerihungeda

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Generative AI engineer building production-ready NLP agents, RAG systems, and data-driven AI solutions.

Ethiopia

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building and deploying generative AI/NLP solutions, where I can design RAG systems, optimize models and pipelines, collaborate cross-functionally, and grow toward technical leadership in ethical, production-grade AI.

I am a generative AI engineer experienced in Python, NLP, RAG pipelines, and building AI agents and chatbots for real-world use cases. I collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy production systems, automate KPIs, and deliver actionable insights that drive business decisions.

My work spans fine-tuning large models (including multilingual and Amharic corpora), optimizing retrieval and matching algorithms to minimize hallucinations, and building end-to-end data pipelines and dashboards. I combine technical rigor with clear stakeholder communication, emphasizing scalable engineering, evaluation, and ethical AI practices.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Generative AI Engineer

Current

Upwork

Sep 2024 - Present (1 year 3 months)

Developed NLP-based matching algorithms for RAG pipelines that reduced hallucinations to near 0% and built AI agents and optimized data pipelines to minimize latency and memory overheads.

Python NLP RAG Vector Databases Prompt Engineering Data Pipelines

Data Science Professional

Avenir Technology PLC

Mar 2024 - Jul 2024 (4 months)

Collaborated on automating KPIs and deploying real-time dashboards, developed prediction models with >50% accuracy, and built a data warehouse to enable richer data mining and decision-making.

Python SQL Dashboards Data Warehousing ETL Postgres

Freelancer Data Engineer

Self Employed

Dec 2021 - Jan 2024 (2 years 1 month)

Introduced and integrated systems for medium enterprises including KPI dashboards, implemented ELT pipelines for real-time KPI tracking, migrated and optimized data warehouses, and delivered stakeholder presentations.

ELT Data Visualization SQL Data Migration KPIs Pandas

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Addis Ababa Science and Technology University

Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with coursework in probability and statistics, object-oriented programming, computer architecture, digital logic design, applied mathematics, and economics.