Professional Experience

Backend developer at a payment gateway (Golang, microservices), with prior internship and freelance work across full-stack, integrations, and client projects

Client Project•2025

Logistics & Shipment Tracking System

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• System to manage and track shipment status for a client
• Next.js frontend, NestJS backend, MongoDB database

Upwork•2024–2025

Full-Stack React Flow Application

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• React Flow–based UI with Node.js / Express backend
• Designed for clean architecture and maintainable code

Ewenet Communication PLC•May 2024 – Oct 2024

Reunite Us (Frontend Internship)

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• Built missing person platform with Nuxt.js & Tailwind
• Added user roles, post creation, and admin approval
• Enabled search, filters, and user interactions; integrated NestJS backend

Upwork•2024–2025

Discord Onboarding Bot

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• Bot for intern onboarding: intros, daily tasks, submission tracking, feedback
• RAG knowledge base from Notion; text embeddings and ChromaDB; SQLite for state
• TypeScript, PM2 for multiple instances, deployed on DigitalOcean

Freelance•2024

Lifeline Health Initiatives

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• Created static site for medical organization
• Used HTML, CSS, JS for responsive design
• Secured project through word-of-mouth referral

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Upwork•2024–2025

BambooSIM – Sim Cards E‑commerce

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• Full-stack site to sell sim cards: React frontend, NestJS backend
• Multi-service setup with Docker; relay service for third-party communication
• Used Redis, Adminer, Prisma, and PostgreSQL
• Spent significant time on SEO to improve discoverability and search performance

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AddisPay•July 2025 – Present

Backend Developer

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• Build scalable backend services with Golang in a microservices architecture
• Implement gRPC and async messaging (RabbitMQ, Apache Pulsar)
• Integrate gateway with banks (CBE, Awash, Abyssinia) and wallets (Telebirr, M-Pesa, Kacha, Yaya, Coop Bank / Cybersource)
• Develop services on top of the gateway: event payments, school payment solutions
• Work with PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB in production

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