Kidus's Chronicles

Good morning, Beautiful people Started the day from space today… literally. Just got my Space Selfie, my photo was sent to a satellite, displayed in orbit, and captured with Earth in the background. Crazy to think this isn’t CGI… it’s actually taken from space. Reminder for today: Build things. Try things. Put yourself out there. You never know… your ideas might just reach orbit too 🚀 Check it out 👇 https://space.crunchlabs.com/selfie/vSlvUrQ

🚨 Big news I've been sitting on, One of the projects closest to my heart is being showcased at a UN High-Level Meeting on May 26th. It's called HAVEN, Safe Haven for Women. 🛡️ The idea is simple but powerful: a platform that puts a full emergency response network in the hands of every woman, one press of a button. The pilot launch feedback was incredible. And while what's out there now is just a prototype, the vision behind it is much, much bigger. We're also in the process of patenting both the idea and the product, so this is just the beginning. Grateful, humbled, and honestly still processing that this is real. 🙏 More to come. Stay tuned. 👀 You can also check it out at Link

Good morning, Beautiful people☀️ Today’s mission: - Refactor yesterday’s chaos - Push at least one meaningful commit - Pretend we understand our own code from last week Remember: it’s not a bug, it’s an undocumented feature… until production says otherwise. May your builds pass, your APIs respond fast, and your stack traces be short Have a bug free day lmao.

I am in the cinema watching Project Hail Mary when an idea hit me so hard I had to resist pulling out my phone. Before even finishing the movir I had a full product spec, database schema, and user flow diagrams, all mapped out on a Miro board. Not in a week. Not tomorrow, with in an instant. I used Claude as a thinking partner to structure the concept, pressure-test the idea, and then it generated the ERD and flowcharts directly onto Miro, live, in real time. This is what building feels like now. The gap between "I have an idea" and "I have something real to show" has never been smaller. What I'm building? Secret for now. 🤫 But it's coming.

A long overdue introduction 👋 For those who've joined recently, welcome. You probably landed here without much context, so let me fix that. I'm Kidus, an AI Platform/ML Engineer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I build things at the intersection of machine learning and real products, the kind of work that starts with a research idea and ends with something actually deployed and used. Most of my time goes into multiple things: Ask Shega, an AI-powered economic intelligence platform I largely built solo. Think RAG pipelines, agentic search, vector databases, and making complex financial data actually accessible to people who need it. Mind-Bloom, an AI wellness platform I'm co-building, targeting Ethiopian and African youth. Mental health infrastructure for a demographic that's massively underserved by existing tools. Haven, an SOS safety app built for women, deploying soon. Because not everything I build is about systems performance. Sometimes it's just about keeping someone safe. Published research, I also go deep on the theory side. My latest paper applies submodular optimization to ground motion selection for earthquake engineering, using ML-backed algorithms to dramatically improve how we model seismic uncertainty. 97.5% improvement in selection quality over the baseline method. (If anyone is interested I can share below) Outside of that, I take on freelance and contract work, platform evaluations, ML systems, infrastructure, Model Training, Annotations, Model benchmark and evaluations. I've worn a lot of hats: Lead AI/ML Engineer, CTO, solo engineer on products most teams would've staffed 5 people to build. What I share here tends to be honest. Lessons from shipping solo. Things I figured out the hard way. Opinions on AI that aren't recycled from X. Occasionally, things I'm building or breaking. If that's interesting to you, you're in the right place.

And @CoolioCodes was actually super awesome ... he put everything together and organized it really well. Honestly, he might be the most extroverted person I’ve ever seen 😁 You guys should definitely follow him. He’s planning to make dev events a regular thing and do a lot more of them. Let’s get him to 1K by tomorrow too 🔥 @selfmadecoder

Gooood morning beautiful people. The sun is shining

Today I realized something important: you have to step out of your comfort zone. I’ve never really gone to events or initiated conversations before, but this time I did, and I ended up meeting some genuinely interesting people. I got to connect, have real conversations, and even make new friends. I’m really glad I pushed myself to do it, and I’m certain this is just the beginning, I’ll be going to many more events like this.

I have a huge huge stage freight and I actually sung infront of people today 😂😂, I was so afraid, I am sure my voice was shaking lmao, I wanted to get it out of my system.

Some of the pics i took at dev events today

who knows i started a podcast a while ago, but only recorded one episode. I have a lot of things to talk about but are you guys interested about space and stuff?

🌌 Episode 1 is LIVE. "Are We Living in a Simulation?" Quantum physics, ancient philosophy, and one of the most unsettling ideas in modern science, all in one episode. This is what Cosmic Curiosity is about. Big questions. Real science. No fluff. ⏱️ 30 minutes that might change how you see reality. Watch here → https://youtu.be/YNIAvUgvh-Q

A client tried to get a full refund after I delivered 9,500+ images, built a full GUI from scratch, deployed it on AWS, and went well beyond the original scope. When I submitted evidence, he said "Good luck to you both. Close this matter." and walked away. Here's what I learned 👆 @kiduschronicles

Got back to work after some break.. how do you rate my setup....

Something I’ve been working on behind the scenes… 👀 I had the opportunity to lead the development of Ask Shega, Shega's new product, an AI-powered experience designed to make information more accessible, faster, and actually useful for people. Leveraging more than 5M+ Data points From shaping the idea to building it out, this has been one of those projects that pushed me to think deeper about how AI can truly serve everyday needs, not just exist as hype. We’re just getting started. If you want early access and be among the first to try it, join the waitlist: https://ask.shega.co Would love to hear your thoughts once you try it.

What the workspace looks like

And also if anyone is looking for a working space around semit 72, there is a new work space called Ambar. The price is pretty fair 400Br. Per day, pretty fast wifi, and a nice arrangement as well. Spend the day there and was very productive today. https://maps.app.goo.gl/1hfKHH4h4YNB2d1K7?g_st=ac

Y'all should join this group, Pretty great meetups are on the way. Going to be exciting