Dawit.Y
MY EXPERTISE
Technical Skills
Backend Development
🐍Python & Django
Database & Cloud
☁️Redis & Kafka
DevOps & Automation
🐳Docker
☸️Kubernetes
⚙️Automation Tools
Tech Stack Highlights
⚛️
React
🐳
Docker☸️
KubernetesAPI
Oct 2025 - Present (Full Time)
Lead Full Stack Developer
Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute
Document Archive Management System (DAMS)
- •Led full-stack development of a secure digital archive platform digitizing and managing ~66,000 national dialogue records, replacing paper-based workflows with a centralized system and designed to reduce document retrieval time by ~80%.
- •Designed and implemented advanced search and retrieval using Elasticsearch, enabling full-text search, metadata indexing, and faceted filtering, designed to improve query performance by 70% on large datasets.
- •Built role-based React interfaces and a secure Spring Boot backend with authentication, authorization, audit logs, and scalable ingestion pipelines to ensure governance compliance, data protection, and efficient collaboration.
Jul 2024 - Sep 2025
Lead Full Stack Developer
Mesob Ethiopia
HRMS & Queue Management Systems
- •Served as Lead Developer on HRMS and Queue Management systems, and collaborated on Staff Evaluation and Feedback Management platforms, delivering multi-tenant enterprise solutions used across 22 branches.
- •Designed and implemented secure multi-tenant isolation using schema-based PostgreSQL and tenant-aware storage, ensuring data privacy, scalability, and regulatory compliance.
- •Integrated biometric attendance devices into the HRMS, automating time tracking and improving attendance accuracy by 90%.
- •Optimized backend services and RESTful APIs, improving average response times by 25% and supporting high-concurrency workloads across distributed deployments.
- •Implemented real-time queue tracking and status updates, reducing customer wait times by 35% and improving operational reliability.
- •Implemented centralized logging with Apache Kafka and deployed Keycloak (authentication/authorization) and Apache APISIX (API Gateway) on a Kubernetes cluster, strengthening system security, observability, and traffic management while reducing infrastructure costs by 45%.
May 2023 - May 2024
ERP Full Stack Developer
Ethiopian Space Science Society
- •Developed automation tools for letter generation (bulk and single) and email notifications, reducing manual communication tasks by 40% and streamlining internal processes.
- •Implemented ERP functionalities to enhance business operations, integrating them with existing systems and improving operational efficiency by 35%. Built backend automation workflows using Google Apps Script, supporting seamless integration with frontend applications.
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022 (Internship)
Software Engineering Intern
Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute
- •Applied Clean Architecture principles to ensure separation of concerns, achieving a 20% improvement in code maintainability.
- •Implemented JWT authentication, reducing unauthorized access attempts by 30%, ensuring a secure and efficient user experience.
- •Optimized database queries, reducing query execution time by 40% and improving overall system performance.
Featured Projects
Missing Individual Finder
ViewFull Stack Lead Developer
Real-time chat platform with NLP-powered matching (92% accuracy) and face recognition. Improved case resolution by 35% with optimized background processing using BullMQ and Redis.
ReactFlutterNode.jsMongoDBNLP
Healthcare Management System
NDABackend Developer & Team Lead
Patient and Stock Management System for HIV care facilities. Confidential healthcare solution under NDA.
Event Management Platform
ViewFull Stack Developer (Solo)
Modular microservices architecture with role-based permissions. Built independent services for user management, event operations, and ticket handling with clean React + TypeScript frontend.
PostgreSQLExpress.jsReactTypeScript
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