Yihnew Eshetu
Senior Director of AI Engineering at Octus | Building Agentic AI Systems at Scale
- Role
- Senior Director, Ai Engineering at Octus
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Yihnew Eshetu
I build production GenAI systems from architecture to deployment.As Senior Director of AI Engineering, I lead technical teams while coding alongside them. My current focus: pushing the boundaries of production GenAI, multi-agent systems, advanced RAG architectures, LLM fine-tuning, and agentic workflows that serve thousands of financial professionals.From data engineering and regulatory compliance pipelines at FINRA to traditional ML systems (NLP, computer vision) to architecting sophisticated GenAI platforms today. I\'ve built the full stack: data pipelines, ETL workflows, production ML systems, and now agentic AI that reasons and acts autonomously while maintaining enterprise security and SOC2 compliance.
Experience
Senior Director, Ai Engineering
Feb 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US
Education
University of Virginia
Minor, Applied Mathematics
2014 — 2018
UVA School of Data Science
Master of Science - MS, Data Science
University of Virginia
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
2014 — 2018
Skills
- Microsoft Office
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