Abebawu Yigezu
Principal Data Scientist
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAbebawu Yigezu is a Principal Data Scientist with 8+ years of experience building and scaling AI-driven advertising platforms and revenue-optimizing ML systems. Former Chief Data Scientist at Adludio, he led the creation of Lorenzo and the AdSapiens platform, directing six cross-functional teams to automate creative design, real-time campaign recommendations, and robust MLOps pipelines. He combines hands-on expertise in GenAI, LLM fine-tuning, computer vision, and data engineering with production-grade tooling (MLflow, Airflow, Kafka, Snowflake, AWS) to drive measurable reductions in campaign cost and time-to-market. Currently shaping bidding and dynamic pricing models in AdTech, he focuses on integrating data science into platform architecture while ensuring GDPR-compliant data practices. A former senior lecturer and IBM academy coordinator, he brings an uncommon blend of academic training and practical productization across global teams.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Summer School Data Science, Summer School Data Science at Data Science Africa 2019, Accra, GhanaMaster's degree Information Technology, Master's degree Information Technology at Jimma UniversitySummer School Data Science, Summer School Data Science at 10 AcademySeconday school leaving certificate Natural Sciences, Seconday school leaving certificate Natural Sciences at Ligaba High school, Wolita SoddoDeep Learning Indaba-X Summer School Deep Learning, Deep Learning Indaba-X Summer School Deep Learning at Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia
Amharic, English, wolaitgna
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Abe2G/Abe2G.github.io
Sep 2019 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 216 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
Abe2G/FastText-Amharic-Embedding-Vectors
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
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