# Abiy Seifu

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/abiy

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ BigHat Biosciences
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer, Backend @ Abl Schools
Jan 2016 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
- As a founding engineer, I helped design and build core services to support the company’s flagship products from the ground up
- As project lead, served as engineering representative working with Product and Design teams from requirements gathering, to solution ideation, to implementation and release
- Refactored the core Automated Student Placement Service improving its speed by more than 10x contributing to an increase in customer retention and sales
- Defined service boundaries between Abl’s Data Science platform and core application services. Additionally, designed and built an abstracted API by leveraging dynamic Active Record models for the relevant services allowing the Frontend and Data Science teams to iterate on visualizations with minimal friction
- Built ETL services to support bidirectional data transfers between Abl and external data sources while ensuring data integrity
- Supported Data Science work by ensuring data consistency and hygiene
- Routinely performed security and performance critical library and framework upgrades
- Introduced, advocated for, and championed the team’s technical spec and documentation processes
- Contributed to the design of the company interview process for Software Engineers, Designer and
Data Scientists

### Software Engineer, Backend @ Ripple
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
- Built the Ripple enterprise (Ripple Connect) payment processing and pre-transaction messaging orchestration service in Node.js
- Designed, built and owned load simulation software for benchmarking and revealing complex bugs throughout the Connect stack
- Identified and fixed bottlenecks using Linux Perf and Flamecharts to improve Transactions Per Second
- Contributed to gatewayd, Ripple’s open-source gateway software and built a Bitcoin bridge plug-in
- Collaborated across the engineering team on code reviews to ensure work was clean, DRY and modular
- Wrote documentation, unit and integration tests
- Built deployment and configuration tools using Ansible and Bash
- Followed Agile Software Development methodologies

### Software Engineer @ Nitro, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Shipped 5 high-traffic localized sites supporting 12 languages, 1.5 MM monthly unique visitors
- Developed and owned Nitro’s marketing oriented client-side JavaScript library
- Integrated third-party e-commerce (Cleverbridge) and support (Zendesk) APIs
- Mentored junior team members

### Software Engineer @ Accenture
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
- Collaborated with data scientists and business analysts to flesh out specs prior to development
- Created wireframes from user stories and functional requirements
- Developed dashboards to visualize large amounts of Digital TV data to analyze audience viewing patterns using Google Charts JavaScript API
- Clients: EMC (Remote), Time Warner Cable (On-site)

### Web Developer @ INDUS Corporation
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
- Designed, implemented and maintained Section 508 compliant micro-sites in ColdFusion
- Worked with Highway Engineers and other stakeholders to transform requirements into UIs

### Motion Graphics Artist @ HiFade LLC
Jan 2008 – Jan 2009

### Web Designer/Developer @ TK Creative Solutions, LP
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009

### Design Studio Intern @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Media Arts & Animation
Art Institute of Pittsburgh


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abiy-seifu-4190816
- GitHub: https://github.com/nerdylocks

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Last updated: 2026-03-31