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Selam A.

Machine Learning Engineer | AI Engineer | Data Scientist

Senior AI/ML Engineer with over 4 years of experience building and deploying machine learning, deep learning, and LLM systems for credit scoring, natural language processing, code intelligence, and real-time inference. Skilled in Python, C++, and SQL, with advanced expertise in PyTorch, TensorFlow, MLflow, Airflow, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, and AWS services (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda). Proven track record scaling AI solutions for 200K+ MSMEs, optimizing LLMs with RLHF and PPO, and designing behavioral feature engineering pipelines that turn raw event data into production credit and recommendation signals. Experienced in evaluating LLMs and coding agents on public benchmarks, building agent tooling on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and applying program analysis techniques (AST/CFG-level static analysis) to large codebases. Strong command of MLOps and production-grade infrastructure: FastAPI services on EC2 with systemd and nginx, S3-checkpointed distributed pipelines, delta/incremental processing for large-scale workloads, and end-to-end analytics pipelines from game and app telemetry (Unity Analytics, Snowflake) through to scoring models and stakeholder-ready reporting.

🇪🇹Addis Ababa, Ethiopia$35/hr100% JSS5.00 (2)Since Nov 2023

Earnings and projects

MRR (estimate)
≈$7.5k

An estimate from an earlier read

World#2,432 / 412k
🇪🇹Country#3 / 1,609
Revenue, last 30 days
$2.2k

Last 6 months: $45k

World#18,184 / 412k
🇪🇹Country#47 / 1,609
Total earnings
$64k

Billed in all: $64k

World#61,897 / 412k
🇪🇹Country#61 / 1,609
Per project
$11k

$9k in the last 6 months

World#14,780 / 412k
🇪🇹Country#28 / 1,609
Projects, last 6 months
5
80% fixed20% hourly
World#41,747 / 412k
🇪🇹Country#192 / 1,609
Projects in all
6

Across 8 contracts

63% fixed37% hourly
World#250,293 / 412k
🇪🇹Country#928 / 1,609

Earnings, last 30 days

$64.5k+$2.2k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$62k$64k$66kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Dotted: longer than usual between two readings.

Skill rankings: #1 in 3 skills of 20

Rarest: top 0.62% in AI Model Training, of 1,135. Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. 1Amazon SageMaker137 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 0.73%
  2. 1RLHF76 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 1%
  3. 1Feature Engineering40 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 3%
  4. 2Model Tuning111 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 2%
  5. 2MLflow55 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 4%
  6. 2Model Validation21 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 10%
  7. 2Amazon EC2 Spot2 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 100%
  8. 3Model Deployment115 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 3%