Dawit Reda
Raleigh,NC
Summary
Accomplished Data Scientist and Software Engineer with 9+ years of experience delivering innovative solutions in advanced analytics, machine learning, software engineering, and cloud infrastructure. Expert in designing end-to-end AI/ML pipelines, high-availability cloud systems, and fast, scalable APIs. Deep expertise in model training, deployment, optimization, and LLM (Large Language Model) integrations. Passionate about driving business value through data-driven insights, automation, and scalable solutions.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Scientist
LexisNexis Legal & Professional
Raleigh, NC
01.2018 - Current
- Developed LLM training data pipelines with a proxy integration layer (Claude 3.5, GPT-4o, Nova Premier) for scalable, taxonomy-aware passage vetting and cost-optimized inference.
- Designed and deployed multi-stage passage validation frameworks combining LLM vetting, SME grading alignment to improve on-point recall and reduce noise in training sets.
- Achieved >85% classification accuracy on legal document classification using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
- Developed training data generation pipelines using LLM proxy (Claude 3.5, GPT-4o) for document expansion and vetting.
- Constructed memory-efficient CNN models with mixed precision training to optimize for cloud deployment.
- Architected end-to-end AWS pipelines (EC2, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SSM) for large-scale document ingestion, classification, and model inference.
- Automated CI/CD pipelines via Jenkins and AWS Systems Manager, cutting deployment time and improving environment reproducibility.
- Enhanced observability and fault tolerance for distributed ML services using custom CloudWatch logging and structured event monitoring.
- Designed FastAPI-based microservices for real-time document classification and retrieval APIs.
- Built scalable embedding-based search systems combining BM25 and dense retrieval (FAISS) for legal document retrieval.
Software Engineer
LexisNexis Legal & Professional
Raleigh, NC
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Built features for LexisNexis Plus using C#, .NET, Typescript, and JSON/XML.
- Developed Python-Selenium based bots for mass content update and quality assurance.
- Automated deployment of services using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, and AWS Systems Manager.
- Managed production releases and monitored pre-production logs through Splunk.
- Participated in Agile ceremonies, driving user story delivery and sprint planning.
Software Engineer (.NET Developer)
Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA)
New York, NY
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Designed and deployed scalable AWS cloud solutions using EC2, ECR, and CloudFormation.
- Automated deployment of Dockerized applications to EC2 using AWS SSM and Python scripts.
- Defined Infrastructure-as-Code templates for EC2, Security Groups, and Load Balancers in YAML.
- Developed ASP.NET MVC-based healthcare systems and APIs are integrated with SQL Server backends.
Education
Master of Science (M.S.) - Data Science
Cabrini University
Pennsylvania01.2020
Master of Technology (M.Tech) - Construction Technology Management
Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi
India01.2012
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Engineering & Information Technology
Adama Science and Technology University
Ethiopia01.2010
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- TensorFlow
- Keras
- Scikit-learn
- CNNs
- Model Evaluation & Optimization
- LLM Proxy Framework
- Prompt Engineering
- Amazon Bedrock (Nova Premier / Nova Micro)
- OpenAI GPT-4o
- Anthropic Claude 35
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Taxonomy-Aware Passage Vetting
- Pandas
- NumPy
- ETL Design
- Data Validation
- S3
- AWS (EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SSM, CloudWatch)
- Azure
- FastAPI
- Flask
- Jenkins
- Docker
- AWS CloudFormation
- Selenium
- CI/CD Pipelines
- OpenSearch
- BM25
- FAISS (Dense Retrieval)
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Matplotlib
- Seaborn
- Agile (Scrum)
- MLOps
- Experiment Tracking
Timeline
Data Scientist
LexisNexis Legal & Professional
01.2018 - Current
Software Engineer
LexisNexis Legal & Professional
01.2016 - 01.2018
Software Engineer (.NET Developer)
Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA)
01.2014 - 01.2016
Master of Science (M.S.) - Data Science
Cabrini University
Master of Technology (M.Tech) - Construction Technology Management
Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) - Engineering & Information Technology
Adama Science and Technology University