Tsigemariam Zewdu

Software Engineer & AI Researcher

Tsigemariam Zewdu

Backend systems, full-stack engineering, and AI. Building tools that think.

| Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

01 — Profile

About

Software engineer researching AI building scalable backend systems and tools for automated reasoning.

02 — Experience

Where I have worked

AI / ML Engineer

@ IcogLabs

2025.09 — Present · Addis Ababa

  • Building neuro-symbolic AI systems in OpenCog Hyperon, integrating neural guidance with symbolic logic
  • contributed to MOSES (Meta-Optimizing Semantic Evolutionary Search) for automated program synthesis
  • Engineered a theorem prover combining Graph Neural Networks with Probabilistic Logic Networks

Backend Developer Intern

@ Swift System Technology

2025.07 — 2025.09 · Addis Ababa

  • Built production backend services with NestJS, Prisma, and PostgreSQL
  • Secured APIs with JWT, OAuth2, and RBAC

03 — Projects

Selected work

A mix of production systems, research tools, and experiments. All code is on GitHub.

Agentic Market Intel

An end-to-end system that autonomously gathers competitive intelligence, analyzes market trends, and generates actionable reports.

Python LLMs Agentic AI Data Pipeline

Automated Theorem Prover

A research-grade theorem prover using Graph Neural Networks to guide Probabilistic Logic Network backward chaining.

Python PyTorch GNN PLN Symbolic AI

InsightVault AI

Full-stack RAG application. Upload documents, ask questions, get grounded AI answers with source citations.

Python RAG LLMs Vector DB

JobMate

AI-powered career platform for African youth. CV analysis, job matching, and interview prep using Gemini AI.

Go Flutter Next.js Gemini

Metta-Moses

Open-source MOSES implementation in MeTTa for program evolution and automated program synthesis within Hyperon.

MeTTa Python OpenCog AGI

LeetCode Multi-Agent

Collaborative AI system using CrewAI where specialized agents solve coding problems together through delegation.

Python CrewAI Multi-Agent

Blog Platform Backend

Production-ready blogging backend in Go with Clean Architecture, JWT auth, role-based access, and MongoDB.

Go Gin MongoDB Clean Arch

04 — Technical interests

AI systems, backend engineering & research in AI

Building scalable systems and researching tools that reason from AI-powered products to automated reasoning engines.

05 — Skills

Technical capabilities

Languages

Python Go TypeScript Rust Java C++ Lean MeTTa Haskell

Backend

NestJS Express.js Gin Prisma REST API Microservices

Frontend

React.js Next.js Flutter Tailwind CSS

Databases

PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis Vector DB

AI / ML

PyTorch TensorFlow Graph Neural Networks Neuro-Symbolic AI OpenCog LLMs

Infrastructure

Git Docker GCP Azure Linux CI/CD

06 — Background

Education & Leadership

Education

Addis Ababa University 2023 — Present

BSc Software Engineering

DSA OS DB Systems ML Robotics
Africa to Silicon Valley 2025 — Present

Advanced DSA & Backend Engineering

System Design Go Competitive Programming

Leadership

Chapter President 2025

CodeHer

Mentored 20+ women in coding. Grew community participation by 40% in two months through workshops and events.

Instructor 2024 — 2025

STEM for Kids

Taught HTML, CSS, JS, and Python to 100+ high school students. Focused on building early interest in software careers.

07 — Contact

Have an interesting problem?

Open to research collaborations, backend engineering roles, and technically challenging projects.

Email

tsigemariamzewdu20@gmail.com

GitHub

tsigemariamzewdu

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/in/tsigemariam-zewdu

Phone

+251 993 043 308