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Graduate Assistant

Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech

Conducting research on cognitive support systems to enhance software developer practices at the code world no blanket lab

• Designed and conducting qualitative study to understand perspectives and expectations the source code review process
• Worked as a TA for machine learning course
• Instructor of record for a course on Analysis and Design of Algorithms

LIS Expert

World Bank Group, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Led assessments on six Ethiopian land information systems for the Integrated Land Management Project (ILMP), driving governmental capability enhancements.
• Developed high-level requirements for a national system to improve software integration and data sharing.
• Outline land management information system investments, delivering key situation analyses, design recommendations and executed cost-benefit analyses

Information Technology Expert

NIRAS International Consulting, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Developed and maintained components for the National Rural Land Information System (NRLAIS) for the Ministry of Agriculture, Ethiopia, using Java EE and Python (QGIS plugin)
• Advised on strategic decisions for the national rollout of NRLAIS, addressing incremental functionality additions and regional expansion challenges, including adapting to diverse regional rules, and open source based implmentations saving the project an estmated $10Mil over 10 years in license cost

Tech Lead

Digital Medarbeider AS, Norway (Remote), Ethiopia

• Designed and developed 12 microservice based SaaS applications primarly using .Net Core RESTful APIs and progressive Angular frontend apps.
• Devisied and implmemented CI/CD stratages using gitlab and Azure DevOps to intoruce 45% efficency in delivary time
• Developed and standardized reusable libraries and packages, including authentication, authorization, auditing services.
• Designed and developed a suite of reusable libraries for authentication, authorization, auditing, communication, UI framework, and a common services library featuring semi-automatic localization and external API integration proxies scheduling that resulted in up to 28% improvement project bootstrap speed.
• Led a team of 18 developers, enhancing project execution and delivering high-quality software products.
• Designed and implmented map based services of cross application use including support for the nowrigian SOSI formats.

Software Developer

DAI, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Developed two systems for rural land administation one of which went to consitute the Natioanl Rural Land Administration System
• Desinged and develoved a mass registration (MASSREG) using Java EE, PostGIS, and Python-enhanced QGIS, certifying over 14 million land holders across 150 Woredas.
• Designed and developed a land transaction management system that supported over 20 land transactions with customizeable rules for each that was deployed after MASSREG in all Woredas.
• Designed a custom MIS with Laravel and MySQL, and pioneered an incremental synchronization feature for offline data integrity across 150 deployment sites.

Lecturer

Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

• Developed two systems for rural land administation one of which went to consitute the Natioanl Rural Land Administration System
• Desinged and develoved a mass registration (MASSREG) using Java EE, PostGIS, and Python-enhanced QGIS, certifying over 14 million land holders across 150 Woredas.
• Designed and developed a land transaction management system that supported over 20 land transactions with customizeable rules for each that was deployed after MASSREG in all Woredas.
• Designed a custom MIS with Laravel and MySQL, and pioneered an incremental synchronization feature for offline data integrity across 150 deployment sites.

PhD

Virginia Tech

Computer Science

• Working on building systems that support software developers based off their affective and cognitive state.

M.Sc.

Addis Ababa University

Computer Science

• Thesis: 'A Framework for Multi-source Prefetching Through Adaptive Weight' – Grade; Excellent
• My thesis work implemented a federated machine learning to improve prefetching performance

B.Sc.

Addis Ababa University

Computer Science

'Automatic Bias Detection in Source Code Review', PPIG

Yoseph Berhanu Alebachew and Chris Brown

Bias is an inherent threat to human decision-making, including in decisions made during software development.....