Kidist Wosenyeleh

Professional engineering & teaching

Renovo Automation | DevOps Engineer | Aug–Oct 2026

• Developed a reusable Rust tool for single-server deployment automation in about two weeks.
• Developed a hospital-infrastructure market-expansion proposal with executive leadership.
• Worked with Linux, CI/CD, Kubernetes tooling, and observability for industrial automation; explored failover and high availability.

Microsoft · Azure OpenAI / AI Platform | Software Engineer | Aug 2023–May 2025

• Developed and maintained C#/.NET REST APIs for production AI inference and model serving on Azure.
• Served as primary on-call engineer for Azure AI microservices during week-long, 24/7 rotations every six weeks, achieving incident mitigation in under two hours.
• Investigated distributed-systems issues using telemetry and logs; contributed to a backward-compatible v2 controller migration.

Microsoft | Software Engineering Intern | Summers 2021 & 2022

• Contributed to MLflow feature store and data lineage integrations using gRPC, Protocol Buffers, and Apache Arrow Flight.

University of Pennsylvania | Computer Graphics TA & Guest Lecturer

• Mentored CIS 4600 students in C++, OpenGL, rendering, transformations, and debugging (2022–23).
• Delivered a creative-coding guest lecture and hands-on Hydra lab; co-organized Penn's first Algorave for 60+ attendees (Fall 2024).

DSP Work & Audio Projects

Independent | Freelance Programmer & Creative Technologist | Current

• Developing interactive audio and visual prototypes in Python, TouchDesigner, MediaPipe, OpenCV, and Hydra; available for scoped programming, integration, debugging, and technical documentation projects.

Audio DSP Portfolio | November 2026

• Built and published a reusable portfolio for audio DSP, interactive media, and exploratory medical-acoustics software, with demos, technical stacks, project notes, editable project data, and an interactive tone playground.
• Interactive guitar DSP: developing Mouth Wah Mini with MediaPipe jaw tracking, smoothed resonant-filter control, an OpenCV overlay, live-caption experiments, and evolving chord/note visualization; Finger Fuzz explores blues overdrive, punk distortion, and a finger-controlled wah.
• Audio-to-acoustics studies: exploring FFT spectral analysis, filtering, and reconstruction as a bridge from music to hearing and medical-acoustics research tools.

Stack: Python, TouchDesigner, MediaPipe, OpenCV, NumPy, FFT/IFFT; React, TypeScript, Web Audio API.

Audio DSP portfolio & demos · Project code & setup

Graphics Projects

Chroma Portal | Hand-Controlled Psychedelic Shader | November 2026

Status: Source prototype; in development.

• Implemented two-hand MediaPipe tracking with four fingertip anchors, time-based smoothing, polygon validation, and tracking-loss fade for a masked camera effect.
• Developed an OpenCV reference compositor, TouchDesigner GLSL shader, and local RGB/control bridge with optional OSC output.
• Passed eight automated checks covering geometry, compositing, transport, and offscreen shader rendering. Live webcam and native TouchDesigner validation are pending.

Stack: Python, OpenCV, MediaPipe, NumPy, GLSL, TouchDesigner, OSC.

Project constellation · TouchDesigner network · Source code & setup

The Signal Attic | Interactive WebGL World | November 2026

• Built an original procedural attic studio with WebGL/GLSL shaders, lighting, perspective cameras, and a rotating signal cube.
• Implemented replay-safe absolute positions, authored object-class colors, mouse/touch/keyboard controls, PNG capture, and JSON state export in one standalone HTML file.
• Added a depth-buffered Canvas 2D fallback for browsers with WebGL disabled; verified responsive layouts and tested the GLSL shaders with an offscreen software render.

Stack: JavaScript, WebGL, GLSL, Canvas 2D, HTML/CSS.

Live graphics demo · Source code

AI / ML Projects

Keeks the Geek | Creative-Technology Chatbot | November 2026

• Built a responsive chatbot demo with 185 authored notes and a searchable catalog of 101 languages, libraries, platforms, and protocols spanning audio, graphics, creative coding, and AI.
• Implemented an Unsloth QLoRA fine-tuning pipeline for Qwen3-4B, with 233 synthetic training examples, 25 validation examples, response-only loss masking, and 25 held-out evaluation prompts.
• Added a Colab training notebook, reproducible run metadata, blinded base-versus-adapter evaluation, and a FastAPI adapter-serving interface. Fifteen pipeline tests pass; GPU training and model-quality evaluation are pending.

Stack: Python, Unsloth, Hugging Face Transformers/TRL, LoRA/QLoRA, FastAPI, JavaScript, HTML/CSS.

AI / ML project overview · 101 libraries & tools · Try Keeks the Geek · GitHub source & training notebook

Education & technical foundation

University of Pennsylvania | B.A.S. Computer Science, cum laude | Music minor | May 2023

• Signals/digital-audio coursework: FFT spectral analysis and MP3-style encoding concepts, including Huffman coding. Additional study in machine learning, algorithms, computer graphics, music theory, recording, and electronic music.

Northwestern Health Sciences University | Post-baccalaureate premedical sciences | 2025–present

Independent study: Coursera Digital Signal Processing; Andrew Ng AI and machine-learning coursework.

Community leadership & communication

Youthrive | Co-Chair | 2017–2019

• Helped organize the Nobel Peace Prize Youth Forum and contributed to an iBook reaching 6,000+ readers worldwide.

Courses & Certificates

NVIDIA Physical AI Agent Bootcamp | In progress | November 2026

Self-paced study of scene composition, camera controls, object identity, and physical AI workflows. Created The Signal Attic as an independent WebGL companion; NVIDIA RTX/OpenUSD labs remain pending.

Official NVIDIA course · Course status & project links

Tools & music practice

Programming: Python, NumPy, C++, C#, Rust, MATLAB, SQL, Git, Linux, OpenGL.

Systems: REST APIs, Azure, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Prometheus/Grafana.

Creative: TouchDesigner, Hydra, MediaPipe, OpenCV, Ableton Live, Logic Pro; guitar, violin, and electronic music.