Abduselam S
Founder at ShaltuLabs
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbduselam S is a founder and software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on applying NLP to low-resource languages, bridging research and product delivery. He has built and led AI-focused ventures (ShaltuLabs, OromoAI) while gaining production ML and infrastructure experience at Google (GKE AI Infrastructure, Vertex AI) and major internships at Microsoft and T-Mobile. His work blends hands-on model and platform engineering with data annotation and AI training, reflecting an end-to-end understanding of ML lifecycles. Based in the United States and grounded in formal CS training from the University of Washington and Bellevue College, he brings entrepreneurial drive and practical systems experience to language-focused AI problems. Notably, he moves between deep research roles and operational engineering, making him effective at shipping usable NLP solutions for underrepresented languages.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of WashingtonAssociate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Academic Concentration in Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude, Associate of Arts and Sciences - AAS, Academic Concentration in Mathematics, Magna Cum Laude at Bellevue CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hazen Senior High School
English, oromo, Arabic
Github Skills (55)
sparkfun10
adafruit9
minecraft9
arcade9
bit9
makecode9
blockly8
utm8
jailbreak8
editors8
autoscaling8
qemu7
k8s7
emulation7
code-editor6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ashaltu/crier
Mar 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 comment, 1 issue in 3 years 1 month
ashaltu/pxt-arcade
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Casual game editor based on Microsoft MakeCode
Contributions:27 pushes, 7 branches in 11 months
casual-gamegame-editormicrosofteditorcasual
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