TSEGA AMANUEL TESHOME · TAMPA, FL

I teach computers to do things I couldn't do in 2020.

Incoming software engineer at DoorDash. Currently finishing my CS degree at USF.

01 / About

I was born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In 2020, with the world on pause, a borrowed laptop and a YouTube tutorial cracked something open — curiosity turned into obsession almost overnight. The first thing I shipped was a Premier League outcome predictor: an 8-layer LSTM I trained on a decade of match data and sold on Fiverr for about $200. Football and code became the same thing.

Since then, I've followed that thread across Amazon, DoorDash, and a handful of side projects. To me, CS is less about any single language or framework and more about staying curious across domains — ML one week, distributed systems the next, frontend the week after. Along the way, I've been lucky to work with some great teams.

Addis Ababa → Tampa

Based in: Tampa, FL
From: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Studying: BS Computer Science, USF · Class of 2026
Next: DoorDash, full-time
Outside work: Premier League, fraternity leadership, side projects

02 / Experience

2025

DoorDash

Software Engineer Intern

Designed a dual-workflow system across 3 microservices with real-time signal processing that auto-triggers AI calls to Dashers when elite customers (top 0.5%) experience multiple order unassignments. Architected DoorDash's first AI-powered customer service automation using PolyAI, replacing human agents for 19K weekly calls — cut call costs by 42% and saved $306K annually. Shipped end-to-end PolyAI integration with automated case management and payment processing, handling 990K+ annual interactions without human intervention.

AI Integration

2024

Amazon

Software Engineer Intern

Designed and built a high-impact Angular page that lets Amazon engineers compare and visualize different shipment versions, accelerating debugging across multiple teams. Added validation rules to the shipment data service that flag defective single-carton-multi-unit pallets and notify vendors automatically. Integrated CSRF protection into the vendor website's POST requests, hardening backend security.

Frontend

2023 – 2024

Iota Phi Theta Fraternity

Chapter President, Zeta Delta

Youngest chapter president in its history. Led operations, executive board coordination, recruitment, and external representation of the chapter to the broader fraternity community.

Leadership

2023

Amazon

Software Engineer Intern

Built 200 automated Cypress test cases for core website components, boosting team productivity by 35%. Migrated a core API to a new AWS backend — now serving 10,000+ customers. Stood up a scalable frontend API procurement layer bridging the old and new backends.

Fullstack

2021 – 2023

EthioShare

Software Engineer

Building Ethiopia's first online trading platform: NestJS microservices on AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS Postgres, API Gateway), infrastructure-as-code with AWS CDK, per-service CI/CD. Built the Next.js + Tailwind frontend: Recharts portfolio visualization, i18next multi-language, Clerk auth, stock/bond trading tools and asset allocation dashboards.

Fullstack

2021

ATK Building Investments

IT Intern

Rebuilt the company site in React + Express; drove 27% more customer inquiries. Also handled company-wide IT support.

Frontend

where it started

2020 – 2021

Fiverr

Freelance Developer

Built the Premier League Soccer Outcome Predictor: 8-layer LSTM in TensorFlow trained on historical match data, 82% accuracy. Monetized on Fiverr, generated $200 in revenue.

Machine Learning

03 / Work

Premier League Outcome Predictor

An 8-layer LSTM trained on historical English Premier League data.

The origin-story project — the moment football and code became the same thing. Trained in TensorFlow on a decade of match data, reached 82% accuracy on held-out fixtures, and quietly monetized on Fiverr while I was still figuring out what a gradient descent actually was.

TensorFlow · Python · Pandas · Fiverr

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EthioShare

Ethiopia's first online trading platform.

NestJS microservices on AWS with CDK-as-code, Postgres on RDS, per-service CI/CD. The frontend is a Next.js + Tailwind app with Recharts portfolio visualization, i18next for Amharic/English, and Clerk auth — stock and bond trading tools aimed at first-time Ethiopian retail investors.

NestJS · Next.js · AWS CDK · Postgres · Recharts

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04 / Stack

Most days: TypeScript, React, Next.js, and Node/NestJS. Python when there's data to wrangle, Go when I want something sharper. Comfortable across Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS (ECS, RDS, CDK). Angular when the job calls for it, Swift and Kotlin when a phone is the target. Shipping through Vercel, styling with Tailwind. Older languages I still like: C, Java, C#.

05 / Also

Deep Learning Specialization — Coursera
Meta React Native Specialization
CS50's Introduction to Computer Science — Harvard/edX
Algorithms and Data Structures Masterclass
USF Green & Gold Presidential Award · Dean's List (Fall '22, Spring '24, Spring '25, Fall '25)

06 / Contact

If you want to talk — about a role, a project, or just Premier League predictions — I'd love that.