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Fikresilase Wondmeneh Abebayew

@fikresilasewondmeneh

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I build reliable AI agents, retrieval systems, and production full-stack products.

Ethiopia

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to take ambiguous AI products from architecture to production, especially agent systems requiring reliable retrieval, evaluation, grounding, and serving.

At Bank of Abyssinia, I rebuilt an internal knowledge assistant into an agent system with hybrid retrieval, reranking, and claim-level verification. It serves 6,790 employees and handles more than 23,500 conversations across approximately 3,000 documents.

I also led agent and data orchestration for a reporting platform that reduced annual-report drafting from four weeks and 26 people to a four-hour run, with experts fact-checking each claim before executive sign-off. Across voice and text banking agents, I implemented evaluation and serving for task success, hallucination, latency, authentication, and more.

I've built products end to end: an ERP for 2,400 employees, a revenue-generating Electron image-library agent, Bestie’s structured AI visual-learning pipeline, Sage’s open-source coding agent, and Viral Clip’s AI video clipping tool. I'm also the sole author of two arXiv preprints and the open-source agent implementing the Gatekeeper Protocol.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

AI Engineer

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Bank of Abyssinia

Jul 2025 - Present (1 year 2 months)

Rebuilt the internal knowledge assistant from vector RAG into an agent system with hybrid retrieval, reranking, and claim-level verification. Owned ingestion, indexing, retrieval, agent orchestration, backend APIs, and admin tooling across approximately 3,000 documents, deployed inside the bank's private data center.

RAG Reranking Agent orchestration Backend VLLM Evaluation

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Addis Ababa Science and Technology University

Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Grade: Top 3% national exit exam

Activities and societies: 1st place, Ethiopian Digital Health and Stride Ethiopia hackathons

Pursued a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, graduating in June 2025. Achieved top 3% in the national exit exam and an A+ thesis.