Simret.exe
Building cool softwares with Python, Django, and AI/ML.one step at a time.
It’s just a chill space where I share my dev moments, ML/backend projects, and things I learn along the way. I started this to stay committed and grow with others. If you vibe with that, open your laptop and let’s figure out tech together 💻🧚♀️
Simret.exe documents practical software projects across Django backend development, machine learning, data engineering, and fintech. The channel moves from credit-risk and fraud systems to searchable complaint data, multilingual review analysis, and an ongoing SafePay build with payment verification and webhook tooling.
- The channel has posted an average of 39.6 times per week over the last 90 days.
- The current posting streak is 25 weeks.
- The channel has 11 projects mentioned so far, with 7 marked as shipped.
- English makes up 89% of text posts.
The journey.
- May 2026
Opening the Terminal
Simret.exe launched as a public record of software-building work, with Django backend development, AI and machine learning, data engineering, and fintech as its stated focus. The first month was about setting the direction and learning how to explain technical work clearly.
Sources#3#14#19 - Jul – Aug 2026
From Dashboards to Deployed AI
The projects became increasingly interactive: a Brent Oil dashboard launched, financial-inclusion forecasts were prepared, and Fintech-Review-Analytics went live with multilingual review analysis. August added the bilingual Telebirr Assistant, hybrid search, RAGAS evaluation, and a custom interface.
Sources#293#339#391#522 - Sep – Oct 2026
The SafePay Sixty-Day Sprint
September shifted the spotlight to payment reliability, with SafePay work covering background processing, retries, signatures, and transaction isolation. By October, the project had provider adapters, verification-before-trust checks, and public API documentation with payment confirmation details.
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Building now.
SafePay
BuildingA payment project being built in public: Celery and Redis background tasks, signed webhook delivery, provider verification, adapter support, and live API documentation.
Fraud Detection System
BuildingA transaction-fraud model in progress after cleaning and exploring more than 400,000 records, balancing the data with SMOTE, and preparing XGBoost training.
- Data Engineering Pipeline
A pipeline scraping Ethiopian medical Telegram channels and transforming messages into actionable business insights.
Building6 postsJun 2026– - SimruJourney12
A community project for Habesha people with a growing membership and an associated shelter initiative.
Launched5 postsAug 2026– - Telebirr Assistant
A bilingual English-Amharic assistant helping new Telebirr users understand how to use the app.
Launched4 postsAug 2026Visit - Fair Fee
A tool showing transfer fees charged by Ethiopian banks and mobile wallets and whether those fees are fair.
Launched3 postsSep 2026Visit - RAG system
A user interface letting product managers filter complaint sources and control how many complaint chunks they receive.
Also called RAG project in Jun 2026.
Launched3 postsJun 2026– - Financial Inclusion Forecaster for Ethiopia
A forecasting project generating Ethiopian financial inclusion forecasts for 2025–2027.
Building2 postsJul 2026– - Fintech-Review-Analytics
An AI model that analyzes Ethiopian bank customer reviews in three languages.
Launched2 postsJul 2026Visit - Brent Oil Change Point Analysis
An interactive dashboard analyzing Brent crude prices and geopolitical events with a Bayesian change point model.
Launched2 postsJul 2026– - Credit Risk Prediction System
An API that analyzes transaction history to estimate customer risk levels.
Launched1 postsJun 2026–
Start here.
- 01
The channel’s opening manifesto: its focus areas and decision to document the work in public.
🚀 {Simret.exe} is officially live! Hello World! 🌍 Welcome to my digital workspace. I’ve decided to finally open up my terminal and document my tech journey...
May 16, 2026136 views - 02
A compact example of the applied-ML style, with multilingual bank-review analysis deployed live.
The idea of this project is that Ethiopian banks get thousands of reviews on Google Play Store monthly some in Amharic & Afaan Oromo. I built an AI model that s...
Jul 29, 2026884 views - 03
The start of the data-engineering pipeline, including scraping, warehousing, and the next transformation steps.
📉Second Day of The Project. Today I Scraped 1000 messages from 5 Ethiopian medical Telegram channels automatically. Built a full data lake with JSON files par...
Jun 25, 202652 views - 04
A clear SafePay progress post showing background payment processing tested end to end.
⏳ Day 2/60 Building SafePay Today I worked on background tasks. I connected Celery + Redis so payment events can be handled in the background instead of maki...
Sep 29, 2026189 views - 05
The SafePay documentation milestone, with Swagger UI, error codes, webhooks, and payment confirmation.
⏳ Day 29/60 Building SafePay SafePay has real API docs now! Today I added Swagger UI, example requests, error codes, and webhook documentation, including sig...
Oct 26, 202636 views
In their own words.
SafePay has real API docs now!
And finally, this week's project has come to an end.
Fresh from the channel.
Consistency and effort add up. 📈
Birhan Nega become the 1st one to celebrate with !!!😊😊
🎉 1 month of building SafePay in public! Day 30: Added a webhook delivery log where merchants can track deliveries, check statuses and error details, and resend failed webhooks with one call. The same event ID is kept, duplicate resends a...
Miss Simret on Builder😊
⏳ Day 29/60 Building SafePay SafePay has real API docs now! Today I added Swagger UI, example requests, error codes, and webhook documentation, including signature verification and payment confirmation. I also added Idempotent-Replayed...
Let’s see which country I’ll be flying this year 😎✈️