Bethel Tessema
AI ML Engineer at 3billion
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolBethel Tessema is an AI/ML Engineer based in Seoul with nine years of experience and a Master’s in Artificial Intelligence, blending academic rigor with practical system-building. At Ajou University they led research that processed over 1000 TB of Common Crawl for under $2 to create SOTA monolingual datasets and advanced low-cost fine-tuning (QLoRA) on consumer GPUs, work that influenced multilingual LLM adaptation and was published in a national symposium. Now at 3billion, Bethel applies that research-first mindset to production ML solutions, with strengths in low-resource data engineering, multi-modal classifier generalization, and cross-domain zero-shot learning. Fluent in English and Amharic, they also have hands-on translation experience that informs thoughtful language-aware ML design. Colleagues describe them as a pragmatic researcher who turns large-scale data wrangling and clever model adaptations into affordable, deployable improvements.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of International Studies, International/Global Studies, 3.75/4.5, Bachelor's of International Studies, International/Global Studies, 3.75/4.5 at Hankuk University of Foreign StudiesSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at Addis Ababa UniversityMaster of Science, Artificial Intelligence, 4.31/4.5, Master of Science, Artificial Intelligence, 4.31/4.5 at Ajou University
English, Amharic, Korean
Github Skills (15)
microsoft-translator-api10
in-place9
xposed9
google-translate9
android-apps7
translate7
translation6
chrome6
android5
strings3
api2
xml2
bing2
translator1
microsoft1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bethelmelesse/transformer_practice
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:55 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
bethelmelesse/bethelmelesse.github.io
Sep 2022 - Apr 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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