SAMUEL YESHAMBEL
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Email: SamuelYeshambel@outlook.com
GitHub: https://github.com/Samuel-0228
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-yeshambel

TITLE
Backend-Focused Full-Stack Engineer

SUMMARY
Backend-focused full-stack engineer building automation systems, AI-assisted products, and practical software tools across APIs, databases, event-driven workflows, and software evaluation.

EXPERIENCE
Full-Stack Engineer & AI Evaluation Expert
AfterQuery · Pluto Experts · Terminal-Bench / Harbor | 2026
- Evaluated model-generated software across frontend behavior, APIs, databases, authentication, configuration, tests, and runtime environments.
- Reproduced failures, traced root causes across code and environment boundaries, and verified fixes with regression checks.
- Designed benchmark tasks with reproducible environments, automated verification, and objective pass/fail criteria.
- Upgraded the broken-api-deploy benchmark task to Harbor format.

Full-Stack Engineer - Internal Operations Dashboard
Kerob Solutions (Contract) | 2024 - 2025
- Built a centralized internal dashboard with Bun, Hono, React, Next.js, and Tailwind CSS.
- Implemented support workflows, audit records, request approvals, and system activity monitoring.
- Added automated testing, CI/CD, regression improvements, and cloud deployment workflows.

Full-Stack Automation Engineer - Autonomous Systems
Independent Developer / Adulis Inc. | 2025 - Present
- Built an opportunity-monitoring and publishing platform that parses sources, extracts structured data, validates content, detects duplicates, and publishes useful opportunities.
- Designed event-driven workers, APIs, PostgreSQL state tracking, and admin workflows for source and content management.

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
Adulis
- Automated opportunity discovery and publishing with source monitoring, structured extraction, validation, duplicate detection, expiry/state handling, and admin workflows.

Damtie
- Built a reusable event-driven engine for connecting sources to destinations through adapters, including Telegram, RSS, webhooks, GitHub, databases, and HTTP APIs.

Ethiopia FI Forecast
- Built a scenario-based forecasting dashboard for financial inclusion through 2027 with 3 planning scenarios and 7+ automated tests.

S AI Chatbot
- Developed an AI Telegram assistant for Addis Ababa University using OpenAI, Groq fallback, and local keyword retrieval.

EAII Connect
- Built a multilingual innovation portal with AI-assisted support in Amharic, English, and Afaan Oromo.

Portfolio Optimizer
- Combined LSTM forecasting and Modern Portfolio Theory to target a 13% expected annual return with a 1.05 Sharpe ratio.

EDUCATION
Information Systems
Addis Ababa University

CERTIFICATIONS
- Udacity - AI and Data Science Nanodegree
- Educba - Data Analysis with Python
- AI For Ethiopia - AI Fundamentals
- 10 Academy - Kaim AI Mastery Program
- Kifiya AI Mastery

TECHNOLOGIES
Python, Node.js, React, Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Streamlit, TensorFlow, OpenAI, Groq, Tailwind CSS