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Abraham Tedla

Data Scientist

Boston, Massachusetts

I build production ML systems that drive real decisions. From forecasting models predicting daily volume across dozens of sites to cloud-deployed scientific computing platforms, I turn data into tools people actually use.

About

I like building tools that make people's jobs easier, predicting the future so businesses are prepared, and doing research that pushes things forward. Outside of work, I play Europa Universalis IV. Feel free to reach out if you want to talk about data, collaborate on something, conquer the HRE together, or just sign my guestbook.

Currently: Finishing my M.S. at UVA, co-authoring a molecular docking paper (Aug 2026), and preparing for the AWS Certified Generative AI Developer exam.

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Projects

Ticket Predictor

Production ML system predicting daily IT contact volume across multiple corporate sites. GradientBoosting achieves R-squared 0.94+ on high-volume sites. Used by management to shift from reactive to proactive staffing.

TLigBind

Cloud-deployed drug discovery platform enabling researchers to run molecular docking experiments without local infrastructure. Live on AWS Fargate, serving the Trinh Lab at UVA. Manuscript in preparation.

Three-Class Sentiment Analysis

Reframed IMDb sentiment as a 3-class problem. Evaluated 5 architectures (LSTM, BiLSTM, CNN, GRU, BERT). BERT achieved macro-F1 0.784 with systematic ablation studies.

Gothic & Sci-Fi Text Analytics

NLP pipeline analyzing 12 novels from Project Gutenberg. Tokenization, TF-IDF, PCA, LDA topic modeling, and word2vec revealed cross-genre cultural evolution patterns.

Disaster Relief Classification

Multiple statistical models classifying potential survivors based on shelter conditions. Compares logistic regression, LDA, and tree-based methods.

Gender Pay Gap Analysis

Interactive dashboard exploring salary disparities across demographics using General Social Survey data. Built with Plotly Dash for real-time filtering and visualization.

AI Portfolio Assistant

Visitors ask questions about my background and get instant answers. RAG pipeline retrieves relevant context from a knowledge base, generates responses via LLaMA 3.1 on Groq.

Job Market Insights

Automated daily scraper tracks which skills employers actually ask for in data science roles. Interactive dashboard with filtering by skill and work type.

Salary Predictor

Trained on 6,700 real salary records. Random Forest achieves R-squared 0.97. Visitors pick a role and experience level, get an instant estimate with model comparison.

Technical Skills

JavaPythonCC#UNIX Shell ScriptingPower Shell ScriptingSQL
Apache SparkApache HivePy-sparkHadoopTensorFlow
VMware vSphereProxmoxHyper V
Apache TomcatNginxJBoss
Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11gMS SQL serverMySQL
MongoDB
SOAPRESTJWT
WindowsAIXDebian Linux
GitGithub

Experience

Developer & Co-Author

Trinh Laboratory, University of Virginia

May 2026 to Present

  • Developed TLigBind, a full-stack molecular docking web platform for drug discovery research deployed on AWS Fargate.
  • Architected CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions, ECR, and ECS with EFS-persistent storage.
  • Implemented security hardening: path traversal protection, brute-force lockout, PDBQT validation, and non-root containers.
  • Co-authoring manuscript for publication (August 2026).

IT Support Engineer

Amazon

October 2025 to Present

  • Providing high-quality on-site technical support for Amazon's corporate workforce, delivering seamless end-to-end IT services for laptops, servers, and corporate systems.
  • Diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving specialized hardware and software issues across Windows, Mac, and Linux environments in a fast-paced, high-availability corporate setting.

Systems Support Specialist

Computer Repair Specialists

June 2023 to October 2025

  • Diagnosed and resolved hardware, software, and network issues.
  • Installed, configured, and maintained Windows and Debian servers.
  • Administered MySQL/MariaDB databases and automated backup solutions.

Systems Administrator

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (Remote)

January 2019 to June 2024

  • Maintained 99.9% uptime for servers, networks, and storage.
  • Led Oracle 11g to Exadata migration.
  • Managed Tomcat, WebSphere, and JBoss servers.

Systems Engineer

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (Remote)

January 2018 to January 2020

  • Designed and maintained banking systems using Temenos T24, Java, Xamarin, and C#.
  • Integrated APIs (SOAP, REST, XML, JSON) for seamless data processing.
  • Optimized database queries and system infrastructure for improved performance.
  • Developed SQL, Tableau, and Power BI dashboards for business intelligence.
  • Automated workflows to reduce manual intervention and operational costs.

Education

Master of Science in Data Science

January 2025 to August 2026

University of Virginia

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

September 2014 to June 2018

Rift Valley University