BACKEND ENGINEERING & APPLIED AI

Hi, I’m Ashenafi.

I build backend services and practical AI applications.
Currently a Software Engineer at Lowe’s in Charlotte, NC.

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SELECTED PROJECTS

Featured projects

01 / BACKEND ENGINEERING

Online Shopping System

A shopping system connecting product discovery, persistent carts, checkout, and banking web services.

Java Spring MySQL

Academic project · 2022 Explore project ↗

02 / APPLIED AI

Image-to-Text OCR

An OCR application that turns text in images into a usable digital output.

Python Tesseract Docker

Academic project · 2021 Explore project ↗

03 / INTERACTIVE WEB

Cubiq — 3D Cube Game

Cubiq: a playable 3D cube with animated moves, keyboard controls, and reverse solving.

JavaScript CSS 3D No dependencies

Personal project · 2026 Play Cubiq ↗

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EXPERIENCE

Experience

2023 — PRESENT

Lowe’s

Software Engineer

Delivery & Customer Promise. Java and Spring Boot services for product delivery and tracking, cloud migration, and database integration.

Java · Spring Boot · GCP · Cassandra · PostgreSQL

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2020 — 2022

ELSE CORP

Software Engineer → DevOps / AWS Cloud Engineer

Backend services, machine learning with SageMaker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud deployment for e-commerce and manufacturing software.

Python · Django · AWS · SageMaker · Docker

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2019 — 2020

UniCredit Services

Data Scientist

Requirements analysis, algorithm development, and testing for data-focused systems.

Python · TensorFlow · OpenCV · Tesseract

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2015 — 2017

Mekelle University

Software Developer

Developed and maintained software for academic institutions, from requirements and algorithms to integration and testing.

Java · Spring · Hibernate · MySQL

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Backend engineering · Applied AI · Cloud systems