# Michael Tedla

> Frontend dev at Levitate

Location: Allen, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaeltedla

I’m a hard working developer with 5+years experience in full stack development and 3+years working on mobile app development.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Levitate
Jan 2022 – Present | United States
Senior Engineer on the frontend team.

Key accomplishments include:
• Lead the build and launch of Levitate’s new dashboard UI and layout system.
• Lead frontend efforts to build and launch the platform’s handwritten card feature.
• Lead technical efforts to clean up tech. debt with respect to server data management(moving to react-query) and lead efforts to overhaul our build systems and styling solutions.
• Lead efforts to optimize developer productivity and code standards through works to modernize linting and formatting pipelines. 
• Skills: React.js, Typescript, Webpack, Jest.

### Senior Frontend Developer @ OkHi Smart Addressing
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Nairobi County, Kenya
• Lead Frontend engineer on OkCollect, OkHi’s address collection library.
• Built v2 of OkHi’s address collection library with SvelteKit, React, Rollup increasing conversion by over 10%.
• Took over development and maintenance of v1 of Okhi’s address collection library. Repurposed it to app-native, boosted address collection accuracy and loading performance.
• Author and maintainer of OkCollect's web developer docs.

### Full Stack Engineer @ Ministry of Innovation And Technology- Ethiopia
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Lead engineer on factify.et, Ethiopia’s foremost social media data analysis platform.
• Built and launched factify.et with Node.js, Typescript, Express, React, MySQL and Nginx.
• Designed the ML<-> App data flow architecture.
• Worked as lead engineer on the project’s social media data collection software (Typescript, Playwright).
• Engineering-lead managing 4 engineers and mentoring 2 junior engineers.
• Skills: Javascript, Typescript, React.js, Node.js, RabbitMQ, NGINX, Redis, MySQL.

### Founder of BetAfalagi bot @ Self Employed
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Bet Afalagi is a Telegram Bot that enables people to create house listings for rent/sale. Listings created via the bot are shared to a telegram channel where prospective buyers/lessees look through available houses. The bot also enables house owners to close their listings and take them off the market. When a listing is closed, the listing is marked as such and the contact details of the listing owner are removed from the post.

Bet Afalagi also comes with an admin frontend where an admin can approve or decline pending listings. A listing is shared to the telegram channel when it receives admin approval.

### Founder and Engineer at hulusira.com @ HuluSira
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ethiopia

### Full Stack Engineer @ LangBot Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Description: 
Langbot is a chatbot learning platform that allows educators to use their social media pages to create and administer courses. The platform incorporates techniques like gamification, spaced repetition and AI to create an engaging learning environment.

Role:
• Senior full stack engineer building langbot’s content management web app. Worked to develop core features of the CMS including course, lesson and question creation and management features.
• Senior backend engineer on the chatbot team. Built core interaction flows enabling students to browse through courses and lessons.
• Frontend engineer on langbot’s chat extensions app.

### Founder and Mobile app developer at Zena @ Zena
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Description: Zena is an Ethiopian news aggregator app built for Ios and Android.
Role:
• Developer of Zena’s android and ios apps
• In charge of all aspects of the app development lifecycle from planning to deployment to
maintenance.
• In collaboration with the backend engineer developed the api spec used to exchange data
• Technologies used: DART programming language, FLUTTER application development framework,
GRPC framework

### Founder at Tenegna @ Tenegna
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Description: Tenegna is an Amharic medical article publishing platform
Role:
• Developer of the platform’s android and ios applications
• Experience setting up a wordpress site, hosting and running it
• Editor in chief of articles published on the platform. Wrote and translated hundreds of medical
articles.
• Technologies used: DART programming language, FLUTTER application development framework,
WORDPRESS

### Senior Frontend Engineer at AhadooTec @ AhadooTec
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Senior frontend developer on AhadooCollect(a survey creation and data collection platform similar
to KoBoToolbox)
• In charge of all things frontend
• Developed rich survey questionnaire forms equipped with different question types, deep question
grouping and question/group activation conditions.
• Developed survey management features including publishing surveys, auto saving drafts, showing
survey response pages and survey data aggregation and visualization features.
• UI and UX designer
• Worked in collaboration with the backend team to develop the REST api used to fetch the data.
• Technologies used: Javascript, React.js, Redux.js, Material-UI, ReduxForm
Founder

### Founder at Mestawet @ Mestawet
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Description: Mestawet is an Amharic news aggregator app built for the web. It periodically crawls
various Ethiopian news sites for content, parses the pages and displays excerpts of news in a custom reader.
Project: Mestawet Crawler(https://github.com/mickykebe/mestawet-crawler)
• Wrote the entire app
• Experience developing a Web crawler/Rss feed parser to collect data from various websites
• Experience with parsing and organizing scraped content and periodically posting it to the web app
• Technologies used: JAVASCRIPT, NODEJS
Project: Mestawet App(https://github.com/mickykebe/mestawet-web)
• Experience building a progressive web app
• Experience with server side rendering
• Built a channel for sending incoming articles to the app’s facebook page and telegram channel
• Technologies used: JAVASCRIPT, NODEJS, REACTJS, REDUX

### Founder and app developer at Dallol @ Dallol
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Description: Dallol is an Ethiopian news and video aggregator app built for android.
• Developed Dallol android app
• Experience building with MVC architecture
• Collaborated with the backend engineer in crafting a protobuf interface with which rpc calls were
made to the backend
• Experience building a mock grpc backend server for development purposes.
• Worked to internationalize the app and localized it to work with Nigerian news.
• Technologies used: JAVA, ANDROID, GRPC, PROTOCOL BUFFER

### Android app developer @ 360 Ground
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Experience with customizing Telegram chat application
• Experience with customizing Telegram sticker pack feature
• Technologies used: JAVA, ANDROID

### Junior Data Manager @ Management Systems International/EPMS
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Experience with aggregating and analyzing data from local reporting NGOs
• Worked to assist the MIS/IT specialist manage indicator data requirements for all Development
objectives
• Generating data collection sheets with appropriate indicators for each Implementing mechanism
from a pool of indicators based on a standard template.
• Worked to track implementing partner compliance with reporting procedures.
• In collaboration with the MIS/IT specialist, worked to analyze data gathered by developing
standard reports.
• Technologies used: EXCEL, VBA

### System Analyst @ Vertical Optimization, LLC
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Experience with customizing Qadmimum(a customer relationship management software)
• Worked to study the business workflow of a few companies
• Assisted in coming up with an integration plan of how to best utilize Qadmium within that
company
• Adding plugins and making modifications to Qadmium based on the requirements gathered
• Technologies used: PHP, EPESI Framework

### Software Developer @ INSA(Information network security agency)
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Experience building Semien fox anti-malware, a small antivirus focused on targeting malware
programs affecting Ethiopia.
• Experience building the file structure and encryption of the malware database
• Researched various scanning algorithms and helped build the scanning engine
• Worked on other key parts of the software such as the disinfection engine, the update module,
malware sample packaging and more.
• Assisted in building the UI.
• Technologies used: C programming language, HxD hex editor, PE Explorer, OllyDbg debugger

### Intern @ CyberSoft Digital Services Corp.
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Junior developer working on UCIS(a university and college information system)
• Implementing various requirements of the system
• Technologies used: PHP, CAKEPHP, EXTJS


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
HiLCoE School of computer science
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mickykebe
- Website: https://mickykebe.com

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