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Kenawaq Birhanu
Open to opportunitiesBackend Developer
I build AI-powered backend systems, LLM pipelines, and secure production applications.
EthiopiaBackend Developer at Freelance
About
I've built AI-powered systems for the Ethiopian Red Cross Society, including an Emergency Operations Center situational awareness platform with LLM pipelines for news categorization, incident extraction, and daily AI briefings. I also built automated data ingestion from KoBoToolbox field reports and multiple news sources.
At iCog Labs, I contribute to Neurograph and build neuro-symbolic AI, multimodal RAG, and knowledge-graph pipelines. As a freelance backend developer, I'm building a multi-role laboratory sample management system with RBAC, JWT authentication, and 200+ automated tests, while also developing products such as AtlasED, Manimator, Stork, and Telhound.
Experience
Backend Developer
Designing and building a multi-role laboratory sample management system backend for a mining industry client. Delivered across structured sprints covering sample intake, payment-gated coding, blind analyst assignment, preparation workflow, and QC approval, with custom RBAC and JWT authentication.
PythonDjango REST FrameworkPostgreSQLJWTRBAC
Research Intern
Contributed to Neurograph, working on neuro-symbolic AI systems that trace and explain their own reasoning. Built a history-aware, multimodal RAG system returning source page images alongside answers, and implemented an N-gram language model and a character-level GPT Transformer from scratch in PyTorch.
Neuro Symbolic AIRAG SystemsPyTorchPythonDockerN Gram ModelsTransformers
Education
Addis Ababa University
Pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with coursework in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, databases, and web development.