Amanuel Mersha
Head Of AI at TestSavantAI
Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Summary
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Top SchoolAmanuel Mersha is a Head of AI and seasoned ML researcher-engineer with a decade of experience building efficient deep learning systems across vision, NLP, and robotics. He leads TestSavant AI’s team that ships autonomous, continuously learning red-teaming and security solutions, and has hands-on experience training LLMs and agents from scratch to defend AI systems. His work blends research and production: from developing memory- and compute-efficient models and low-resource multilingual NLP systems to cutting inference latency by 2x via 2-D parallelization on GPU clusters. He has a strong track record of productizing research—replacing manual processes with CV systems, building scalable university-wide management tools, and founding an ML-driven startup for SMB visibility. Amanuel holds an MS in AI (3.9 GPA) and pairs academic rigor with practical engineering, often optimizing cost and throughput as much as accuracy. Based in Addis Ababa, he describes himself as a pantomath—curious across disciplines and drawn to challenging, multidisciplinary problems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, 3.9, Master of Science - MS, Artificial Intelligence, 3.9 at Addis Ababa University
English
Github Skills (11)
python9
gpu9
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
tensorflow7
numpy7
neural-network7
acceleration6
tensor6
gpu-acceleration6
autograd5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
leobitz/amharic_word_embedding
Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
leobitz/DynaViT
Dec 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:104 pushes, 3 branches in 5 months
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