AI Engineer

Mikiyas Zenebe

Building infrastructure for AI systems and real-world intelligence. Focused on products that ship.

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Projects

Selected work

AILVision

AI Classroom

AILVision

Problem: Classrooms need a clearer way to understand attendance, engagement, and student wellbeing.

Solution: Built a real-time camera-based system that helps monitor attendance, attention, and visible emotional cues during class.

Impact: Turns classroom camera feeds into insights about attendance, attention, and student engagement.

PythonOpenCVInsightFaceFAISSFlask
Saba

Self-Hosted AI Assistant

Saba

Problem: AI workflows are often scattered across chat apps, file tools, and disconnected services.

Solution: Built Saba as a self-hosted AI assistant for chatting with models, working with files, using approved tools, remembering useful context, and connecting chat channels.

Impact: Gives users one private, customizable place to run AI workflows on their computer or server.

AI AssistantsSelf-HostedFile WorkflowsTool Integration
Megent

AI Agent Fiewall

Megent

Problem: AI agents need a safety and policy layer before they can operate in real systems.

Solution: Shaped an SDK concept for securing agent behavior, decisions, and execution boundaries.

Impact: Positions Megent as infrastructure for trustworthy agent workflows.

SDK DesignAgent SecurityPolicy ChecksPython
repIt

AI Classroom Representative Agent

repIt

Problem: Classroom coordination still depends on manual updates and scattered communication.

Solution: Built repIt as an AI classroom representative agent to organize messages, reminders, and coordination.

Impact: Gives classroom communication a reliable agent layer.

Agentic AIPythonAutomationWorkflow Design
Berta Translation Model

Low-Resource NLP

Berta Translation Model

Problem: Berta-English translation has limited high-quality machine learning support.

Solution: Trained a low-resource translation pipeline for Berta language preservation and access.

Impact: Supports indigenous-language digitization and future NLP tooling.

PyTorchTransformersNLPHugging Face

Skills

LLM productsRAGAgent workflowsAI safetyModel fine-tuningOpenCVCNNDetectionVideo intelligenceNext.jsReactDesign systemsPythonAPIsFlutterDeployment

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Email: mikilezen@gmail.com