Finance, data, and commodity trade between Boston and Addis Ababa
About.
I'm the CFO at Muda Coffee, where I handle the financial side of exporting Ethiopian specialty coffee and agricultural commodities. Before that I worked in my family's import and construction business in Addis Ababa. I studied finance and business analytics at Hult, picked up some quant methods along the way, and now I spend most of my free time building models and writing code for things that interest me: option pricing, satellite data, NLP, trading systems. This site is where I keep all of it.
Day to day, I'm working on things like LC financing for coffee shipments, DCF models for equity analysis, or pricing derivatives with stochastic methods. I like building things that do something useful, and I like understanding how they work under the hood.
Chief Financial Officer
Running finance for Muda Coffee's export operations between Ethiopia and the US
Quantitative Finance
Working through the CQF. Derivatives pricing, stochastic calc, risk models.
Global Commodity Trader
Ethiopian coffee, soybeans, wheat, sesame. Getting it from farm to port to buyer.
Data & Analytics
Python, R, SQL. Building models because I find it interesting.
Live Markets.
Commodities and currencies we trade and track
Coffee
Soybeans
Wheat
Crude Oil
Natural Gas
ETB/USD
Last updated: Apr 17, 10:15 PM UTC
Business Verticals.
The different parts of the family business
Commodity Export
Ethiopian Specialty Coffee & Agriculture
We source and export Ethiopian specialty coffee, soybeans, and wheat. Direct relationships with producers across Ethiopia's main growing regions.
Industrial Import
Raw Materials & Construction
We import raw materials and industrial supplies for construction and manufacturing in Ethiopia.
Real Estate
Property Investment & Development
Commercial and residential real estate in Ethiopia — development, investment, and management.
Furniture Manufacturing
Design & Production
We manufacture furniture using imported raw materials and local craftsmanship for the Ethiopian market.
Quantitative Research.
Derivatives pricing, risk modeling, and stochastic calculus
Black-Scholes
C = S₀N(d₁) − Ke⁻ʳᵀN(d₂)
GARCH(1,1)
σ²ₜ = ω + α·ε²ₜ₋₁ + β·σ²ₜ₋₁
Geometric Brownian Motion
dS = μSdt + σSdW
Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF)
In ProgressAdvanced program covering derivatives pricing, risk management, stochastic calculus, numerical methods, and machine learning in finance.
Financial Transmission Rights Pricing
Most option pricing models assume the underlying is a stock or a commodity. This paper takes the Black-Scholes framework and adapts it for Financial Transmission Rights, where the underlying is congestion risk on a power grid. Includes jump-diffusion models, seasonality adjustments, and interactive LMP charts.
Advanced Option Pricing Model
A pricing suite covering Black-Scholes-Merton, Heston stochastic volatility (via Fourier transforms), and Monte Carlo simulation with antithetic variates. Includes full Greeks surfaces and 3D volatility visualization. Built as a Streamlit dashboard.
Advanced ML Trading System
Implementation of methods from Lopez de Prado's Advances in Financial Machine Learning. CUSUM filters for event detection, triple barrier labeling, meta-labeling for signal confidence, purged K-fold cross-validation, and Kelly criterion for position sizing. Built in Python with XGBoost.
Analytics Portfolio.
Financial modeling, machine learning, and data-driven research
Advanced Option Pricing Model
A pricing suite covering Black-Scholes-Merton, Heston stochastic volatility (via Fourier transforms), and Monte Carlo simulation with antithetic variates. Includes full Greeks surfaces and 3D volatility visualization. Built as a Streamlit dashboard.
Amazon Comprehensive Financial Analysis
Full financial analysis of Amazon: income statement forecasting, balance sheet projection, DuPont decomposition, WACC estimation, and DCF modeling with Monte Carlo simulation on terminal value.
Nike Brand Perception NLP Analysis
Scraped 300K+ reviews from the App Store, Reddit, and Trustpilot for Nike, Adidas, and Under Armour. Ran sentiment analysis (NRC, AFINN, Bing lexicons), LDA topic modeling, TF-IDF, and aspect-based sentiment on price, quality, and sustainability. Built in R.
Urban Heat Island ML Explorer
Interactive satellite ML classification explorer covering Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, and Freetown. Classifies urban heat island zones using the features extracted by UHI-Pipe.
MNIST: MLP vs CNN
Technical comparison of a Multilayer Perceptron and Convolutional Neural Network on MNIST digit classification. Includes 3Blue1Brown-style architecture visualizations, convolution operation animations, and analysis of why spatial awareness matters.
Experience.
Work I've done in finance, trade, and operations
Chief Financial Officer
January 2024 to Present · District of Columbia, USA
Running the financial side of a family coffee export business — budgeting, pricing, risk, and getting operations off the ground in the US market.
- ▸Handle all financial operations: budgeting, cash flow, and planning with Excel models
- ▸Grew sales to over 50 containers in two years through better pricing and inventory management
- ▸Built pricing and risk strategies for coffee futures and FX exposure
- ▸Set up Odoo ERP for inventory management across the business
- ▸Represented Muda Coffee at the Chicago Specialty Coffee Expo and Boston Coffee Expo
- ▸Built and maintain the MudaCoffee website
Operations & Business Development
April 2020 to January 2021 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Worked across the family's operations — procurement, audits, asset management — in a business that covers real estate, coffee, exports, furniture, and consumer goods.
- ▸Traveled to remote regions for site audits on coffee sourcing and furniture manufacturing, verifying deliverables before releasing financing
- ▸Handled procurement of building materials for apartment developments and acquired a furniture showroom
- ▸Restructured the vehicle fleet from 87 to 20 units — sales negotiations, loan compliance, ownership transfers
- ▸Coordinated asset valuations for loan renewals and managed export document approvals
- ▸Worked as the link between the company, construction firms, and architecture consultants
- ▸Did market research that directly shaped our sales approach
Earlier Roles
Architecture Intern
Bereket Tesfaye Consulting Architects
March 2020 to June 2020 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Made 3D models and hand-carved designs for luxury apartments and office buildings.
Assistant Project Manager
Nayna Rotaract
February 2019 to February 2020 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Helped raise money to build a primary and middle school for an orphanage.
Education.
Where I studied and what I focused on
Master of Science
Finance
Hult International Business School
Cambridge, MA · August 2025GPA: 3.6
Focus Areas
Key Coursework
Master of Science
Business Analytics
Hult International Business School
Cambridge, MA · April 2026GPA: 3.81
Focus Areas
Key Coursework
Hult International Business School
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration
Cambridge, MA
August 2024
Harvard University Extension School
Coursework, Finance, Computer Science & Security
Cambridge, MA
July 2023
Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF)
Certificate, Quantitative Finance
Online
In Progress
Skills & Tools.
What I work with day to day
Let's Connect.
If you want to talk about coffee, finance, data, or working together on something — reach out. I'm easy to get in touch with.