Systems Engineer.
I am a backend and infrastructure engineer with 3+ years of experience building live video streaming engines, national-scale identification APIs, and zero-trust edge proxies. Obsessed with low-level systems security and robust CI/CD pipelines.
Stack: Go, Python, C (C11/POSIX), Django, PostgreSQL, Docker, HashiCorp Nomad, Nginx, Redis.
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Software Backend Engineer
[August 2024 – July 2026]- -Architected high-availability Go/Python microservices for national ID, live streaming, and election systems.
- -Co-managed Linux cloud infrastructure, configuring Nginx load balancers and containerized deployments.
- -Optimized PostgreSQL queries and Redis caching layers to reduce latency for high-traffic endpoints.
- -Automated testing and deployment workflows using GitLab CI/CD and Docker multi-stage builds.
Software Backend Engineer (Paid Internship)
[January 2023 – July 2024]- -Designed core RESTful APIs, normalized database schemas, and managed container deployments.
- -Integrated Celery and Redis for asynchronous background processing and notification queues.
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Mirchaye Election System
[WORK]Architected Go/Python microservices processing over 5.6M registration records at >1,500 req/sec for the National Election Board of Ethiopia.
Owlevents API v2.0
[WORK]Co-led RESTful API architecture and integrated a Raspberry Pi hardware self-check-in kiosk system with thermal printers.
Fayda Auth & Microservice
[OSS]Built open-source Go/Python SDKs and a standalone Go microservice for national ID eSignet OAuth/OIDC authentication and KYC.
Poultry Mgmt (Cardano)
[OSS]Designed geospatial tracking APIs integrating Cardano Nami Wallet authentication under an open-source Catalyst grant.
Phalanx — Zero-Trust mTLS
[PROJECT]Designed a high-throughput Go edge proxy supporting dynamic SNI routing and mutual TLS identity validation for secure sidecar communication.
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