Firi Berhane

Firi Berhane

AI Programmer
Ethiopia

About Me

As a Software Engineering major, I specialize in data handling, visualization, and machine learning model development. I am an active learner and collaborator, currently leading AI projects as a community leader for Omde…

Experience

AI Programmer

Con-digital Technologies, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Dec 2023 - Present · 2 years 6 months

Responsible for building AI solutions for finance and accounting.
Developed a semi-automatic bank reconciliation system.
Worked extensively with OpenCV and computer vision tasks.
Utilized and trained Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems.
Preprocessed image data to make it suitable for OCR processing.
Handled post-processing of OCR results.

AI Programmer

Con-Digital Technologies
Dec 2023 - Present · 2 years 6 months

- Responsible for building AI solutions for finance and accounting.
• Developed a semi-automatic bank reconciliation system.
• Worked extensively with OpenCV and computer vision tasks.
• Utilized and trained Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems.
• Preprocessed image data to make it suitable for OCR processing.
• Handled post-processing of OCR results.

AI Engineer Intern

Rock Analytics, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Oct 2023 - Dec 2023 · 2 months

Worked on tasks involving AI Document Analysis, contributing to the understanding and extraction of valuable information from text data.
Performed text data cleaning and preparation for Language Model Learning (LLM) processing, ensuring high-quality data for model training.
Engaged in Prompt Engineering, designing effective prompts to elicit desired responses from AI models.
Handled tasks related to Language Model Learning (LLMs) and Vision models, gaining experience in both NLP and computer vision domains.

Project Chapter Lead

Omdena, Palo Alto, United States
Nov 2022 - Oct 2023 · 11 months

Led and managed two AI for Good projects.
The first project involved detecting coffee diseases on coffee plants using computer vision.
The second project focused on collecting data and fine-tuning a Language Model Learning (LLM) model for the Amharic language, which has scarce resources available publicly for the question answering task.

Research Data Analyst

Ablaze Labs, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Jan 2023 - May 2023 · 3 months

Conducted comprehensive data analysis, cleaning, and visualization on pulses and other agricultural data, deriving actionable insights.
Presented data insights to company stakeholders, facilitating data-driven decision-making.
Undertook extensive research on the agriculture sector, identifying trends, challenges, and opportunities to inform strategic planning.
Engaged in in-depth research on the startup ecosystem, analyzing key success factors and areas for innovation, contributing to the company’s understanding of the market landscape.

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Omdena, Palo Alto, United States
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023 · 6 months

Led and collaborated with a team for model building and deployment for a local chapter.
Served as a lead Machine Learning (ML) engineer for an innovation challenge.
Directed fellow collaborators on data pre-processing tasks during the innovation challenge.

Skills

Data Evaluation Python Computer Vision Data Preparation Flask Optical Character Recognition (OCR) TensorFlow Microsoft Azure Cloud PyTorch Deep Learning Statistics NLP SQL Exploratory Data Analysis Model Deployment Streamlit Data Visualization Unsupervised Learning Hypothesis Testing Time Series Analysis Cohere.ai GPT-3 Tableau Excel WordPress JavaScript AWS Databricks Vectorization Multithreading OpenCV Prompt Engineering LSTM RNN XLNet BigQuery Decision Trees Regression Data Cleaning
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