Staff DevOps Engineer & Fullstack Lead at Zemenay Tech · Addis Ababa, UTC+3
Seven years shipping production software, since 2019. I write the services and I run the infrastructure they sit on — React and React Native on the front, Python and Node behind them, Kubernetes and AWS underneath. I can't leave anything half-owned.
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galio-org/galio — contributor to the Galio React Native UI framework (3.2k ⭐). Six merged PRs across the org, ~22k lines:
- #270 — modernized the framework and added TypeScript declarations across the component library. +15,720 / −10,914 over 91 files. Merged 12 Aug 2025, the day before the v0.9.1 TypeScript release
- #272 — fixed broken package exports and the shipped type declarations (+3,236, 91 files)
- #273 — resolved a
GalioProvider/ React Navigation context conflict that broke apps using both - #275 — navbar style optimization + provider message fix
- #278 — carried the library through the Expo SDK 54 upgrade
- galio-starter-kit#30 — modernized the official starter kit (198 ⭐, +2,802 / −2,227)
galio-test-pack — my own TypeScript-first rewrite of the component library.
BGRemove — every background remover makes you upload your photo to someone's server. For an ID photo that's a privacy cost nobody prices in. This runs the segmentation model entirely in the browser via transformers.js + WebAssembly, so the image never leaves your device and there's no backend to breach.
multi-collab-editor — real-time collaborative editing without users clobbering each other. Microservices: an API gateway fronting separate auth, document, and WebSocket collaboration services, so concurrency and access control stay independent problems.
Questions-jo — an interactive leadership assessment that gives you insight as you answer rather than a score at the end. React, TypeScript, Tailwind. Live.
Not everything I've built is mine to publish. These are the systems I'd point at first anyway — happy to walk through the architecture or demo any of them.
MediScan — clinical decision-support platform for chest X-rays. A multi-model ensemble (YOLOv12m detection + EfficientNet-B0 classification + a Lungmask U-Net segmenter) reads 15 lung-disease classes with confidence scores and Grad-CAM heatmaps. Around the model sits a real clinical workflow: radiologist markup, automated PDF reporting, RBAC, 2FA, AES-256 at rest, full audit logging. FastAPI + PostgreSQL, on Kubernetes with Prometheus and Celery, covered by pytest and Playwright suites. Private repo.
EV Repair Finder — cross-platform React Native app connecting EV drivers to certified repair workshops across Europe, shipped on iOS and Android. Full Firebase backend (Firestore, Auth, Cloud Functions, Messaging), Redux Toolkit, maps and navigation, multi-language i18n. Built at Zemenay Tech — source isn't mine to publish.
Leana — real-time social features in React Native against Node.js services: live chat and messaging over WebSockets, serving 50,000+ monthly active users. Also Zemenay.
Languages TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · SQL · Dart · Bash Front React · Next.js · React Native · Expo · Redux · Tailwind Back Node.js · FastAPI · Express · PostgreSQL · Firebase · WebSockets Infra Docker · Kubernetes (EKS) · AWS · Terraform · ArgoCD · GitHub Actions · Prometheus AI PyTorch · YOLO · ONNX · transformers.js · RAG · LangChain Testing Playwright · Jest · pytest
⚡ Manchester United, and I do my best work after midnight.