Software engineer and data analyst with 7+ years building enterprise systems, data pipelines, and NLP infrastructure. I work on problems that matter in places where good technology is hard to come by.
I'm a software engineer and data analyst with 7+ years of experience building and maintaining enterprise systems in Somalia. Infrastructure here is scarce, requirements are demanding, and the margin for error is low. That shapes how I work.
At SOSTEC Technologies I run the Software Department, which means owning a multi-module platform that handles accounting, inventory, payroll, and reporting for over 200 customers. Day to day that's database design across PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle, writing data validation and reconciliation pipelines, and turning all of it into Power BI dashboards that executives can actually use.
On the research side, I've been building Somali NLP infrastructure, starting with digitizing and structuring the largest existing Somali dictionary into a queryable corpus and NLP-ready dataset. Somali is a severely low-resource language and very little structured digital data exists for it. This work directly enables tokenizers, POS taggers, and LLM fine-tuning that weren't possible before. An academic paper on the corpus methodology is in progress.
I hold a BSc in Statistics and Planning from SIMAD University, the Google Advanced Data Analytics professional certificate, a Udacity Data Analysis Nanodegree, and additional certifications from Oracle, Meta, IBM, and WorldQuant.
Leading software engineering on a multi-module enterprise platform covering accounting, inventory, payroll, HR, and reporting for 200+ customers across Somalia. The work spans database architecture across PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle, building data validation and reconciliation pipelines, setting up CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and producing Power BI dashboards for executive stakeholders. I also manage the full development lifecycle and a small technical team.
Conducted structured field data collection across Mogadishu using ODK mobile platforms. Responsible for data accuracy, survey administration, and submitting data in real time to central servers for programme monitoring and evaluation.
End-to-end digitization of the Qaamuuska Af-Soomaaliga, the most comprehensive monolingual Somali dictionary in existence (~900 pages, Roma Tre University Press, 2012). Transforms an inaccessible academic PDF into a fully queryable, web-accessible dictionary and NLP-ready corpus. One of the first structured digital datasets for the Somali language, directly enabling downstream work on tokenizers, POS taggers, lemmatizers, and LLM fine-tuning. An academic paper on the corpus methodology is in progress.
A full-stack multi-tenant property management platform built for the Somali real estate market. It handles tenant onboarding, lease management, rent tracking, maintenance workflows, and financial reporting. Multiple property owners can share a single installation with full data isolation between them.
A multi-module enterprise platform I maintain and extend at SOSTEC Technologies, serving 200+ customers across Somalia. Modules cover double-entry accounting, inventory, payroll, HR, and procurement. My contributions include automated reconciliation pipelines, cross-database integrity checks across PostgreSQL and Oracle, a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline, and Power BI dashboards for financial reporting.
Happy to talk about software engineering, data systems, Somali NLP, data or MEAL roles in international organisations, and freelance work where the stakes are real. Drop me a line if any of that overlaps with what you're building.
abdallammud@gmail.com