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Biruk Dawit
> Software Engineer
Builder of software — from backend systems to the browser.
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A bit about me
I build software end-to-end. Lately I manage analytics systems at Taggstar (powered by Syndigo); previously at Barclays. I also run, dance and climb.
experience
Where I've worked
Software Engineer
Build and maintain the backends behind customer- and admin-facing dashboards, internal data/config tooling, and reporting services — all backed by end-to-end tests. Recent work leans into LLM-powered products.
Software Engineer
Worked on a highly distributed risk-analytics platform, focused on its testing framework.
skills
What I work with
Languages
Frontend
Data & AI
Cloud & Infra
Practices
projects
Selected work
Natural-language config queries
Athena-style SQL over JSON configuration with DuckDB, topped with an LLM layer so you can ask questions in plain English.
LLM knowledge wiki
An internal wiki wired to an LLM (Hermes), Karpathy-style — ask a question, get an answer grounded in the team's own docs.
Dashboard backend
The service powering customer- and admin-facing dashboards, with a full end-to-end test suite keeping it honest.
Reproducible Mac setup
A scripted, deliberate laptop rebuild: a minimal core bundle, opt-in add-ons, bootstrap + verify scripts, and clean personal/work identity separation.
Linux From Scratch
Built a working Linux system from source — toolchain and userland compiled by hand — to demystify what sits under the shell.
Risk-analytics test framework
At Barclays, built the testing framework for a highly distributed risk-analytics platform.
contact
Get in touch
Happy to talk about engineering, collaboration, or anything interesting. Drop me a line:
hello@biruk.co.uk