Hi there, I'm an AI/ML Engineer 👋
Building intelligent systems that
solve real-world problems.
I'm Samuel — an AI/ML Engineer and Team Lead based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I work at iCog-Labs (East Africa's first AI & Robotics R&D company) and as an AI/ML Engineer at SingularityNET, contributing to the shared mission of building AGI.
My work spans NeuroSymbolic AI, agent systems, language models, and full-stack product development. I'm passionate about turning research into impactful real-world products.
Currently at
iCog-Labs + SingularityNET
AI/ML Engineer · Team Lead
Based in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Open to remote collaboration
Focused on
NeuroSymbolic AI & Agents
MeTTa, LangChain, LangGraph
Building
AI Music Generation
Open source · MIDI · GTTM
Experience
Apr 2024
— Present
— Present
iCog-Labs
AI/ML Engineer · Team Lead
Leading development teams on extensive AI/ML research and development projects at East Africa's first private AI & Robotics R&D company. Driving initiatives across NeuroSymbolic AI systems, expert systems, and production ML pipelines.
📍 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Mar 2024
— Present
— Present
SingularityNET
AI/ML Engineer
Contributing to the shared vision of building AGI alongside seasoned engineers and researchers on a decentralized, democratic, inclusive platform. Working on AI research and development towards Artificial General Intelligence.
📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands · Remote
Jun 2025
— Aug 2025
— Aug 2025
Yemeba AI
AI Agents Developer
Built finaloop.ai — an AI agent that automates lead generation to help companies identify and sell to their most likely clients.
📍 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Nov 2023
— Feb 2024
— Feb 2024
Africa To Silicon Valley (A2SV)
Data Structures and Algorithms Trainee
Engaged in intensive lectures and practice sessions at this international non-profit that trains and connects African software engineering talent to top tech companies worldwide.
📍 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Apr 2023
— Sep 2023
— Sep 2023
iCog-Labs
Machine Learning Intern
Grew skills in building and training ML models, developed the mathematical foundations for machine learning, and collaborated in full-stack development roles building real-world products.
📍 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Skills
AI & Machine Learning
Full Stack
Tools
Leadership
Projects
AI Music Generation
Open source long-form symbolic music generation using GTTM-inspired structural energies, corpus-based statistical priors, and Schrödinger bridge inference. Targets progressive rock / jazz fusion compositions of 5–15 minutes in MIDI format.
2026 –
Present
Present
Leyu.ai
A crowdsourcing platform that collects language data for under-resourced African languages. Built with Next.js and Django REST Framework with full auth, data validation, and distribution pipelines.
2024 –
2025
2025
Priscilla
A Telegram Mini App helping teachers and Sunday school classroom managers run lessons effortlessly — with role-based auth, cron-job scheduling, and full testing.
2025 –
Present
Present
DAO Matcher
A discovery tool that finds people with similar interests using AI similarity matching. Built with full authentication and industry-standard LLM performance testing.
2024
PharmaCare
An inventory management system for pharmacies with role-based authentication and automated notification pushes via cron-jobs.
2024
MeTTa Tutorials
A two-part YouTube tutorial series teaching the AI programming language MeTTa (Meta Type Talk) — the knowledge representation language used in OpenCog Hyperon — to developers worldwide.
2025
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