Demissew Melese

Full Stack Developer

eBiz Online Solutions PLC

About me

I am probably best described as a jack of all trades. I’m a licensed marine engineer, mobile developer, full-stack developer, and entrepreneur. I also have extensive experience in online marketing and SEO.

I co-founded a small company here in Ethiopia that provides online solutions for local businesses. I have been the CTO of the company since its establishment and over the years, I have developed several mobile apps and web apps for the company that are now being used by thousands of businesses.

I’m a self-taught software engineer with experience ranging from building desktop software that interface with peripheral devices via parallel port to full stack web apps and mobile apps.

Interests

Backend Development
Microservices
Spring/Spring Boot

Education

Third Engineer License

Regional Maritime University, Ghana
Bachelors in Marine Engineering

Marine Engineering And Research Institute, India
Mechanical Engineering

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Skills

Laravel

5+ years

Flutter

3+ years

Spring Boot

1 year

React

2+ year

Vue

1+ year

JavaScript

8+ year

PHP

10+ year

MySQL

5+ year

MongoDB

1 year

Redis

5+ year

CakePHP

5+ year

jQuery

10+ year

Experience

Co founder, CTO

eBiz Online Solutions PLC

Aug 2008 – Present Addis Ababa

Responsibilities include:

Web development
Mobile app development
DevOps (VPS setup from scratch, deployment via Capistrano)
Online marketing and SEO
Train employees

Founder, Full stack developer

Leanseller

Jan 2015 – Nov 2017 Addis Ababa

Responsibilities include:

Building both front and backend of a multi tenant app
Building custom affiliate marketing management system
DevOps
Online marketing and SEO
Online payment integration (2checkout.com and Strip)
Amazon marketplace services integration

Founder

DML Global LLC

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 USA

Researched a product that can be sold on amazon.com,
Sourced the product from China (get it manufactured, quality checked, get it shipped via a freight forwarder to Amazon US)
Setup a marketing campaign for the product and operated an amazon.com’s store for 1 year

Founder, Web/Software Developer

Afrorise IT Solutions

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 Addis Ababa

Developed several small websites to local clients
Provided freelance service to foreign companies that include:
- Web development,
- Education material (slides) preparation,
- Online product research
Developed a biometric attendance monitoring desktop software for a steel factory using SecuGen’s device. Technologies used for the project include
- C/C++ - for writing DLL that interfaces with the biometric device
- VisualBasic - for UI
- MS Access
Created a company profile for a local company using Adobe Flash

Third Engineer

Ethiopian Shipping Lines

Jan 2004 – Jan 2007 Addis Ababa

Worked as a cadet after school for one year,
Worked on two cargo ships as a third engineer (I was in charge of the ships' generators. I performed one complete overhaul of a Sulzer generator)
Participated in emergency and critical maintenance of large ships' main engines in two occasions
Participated in routine maintenance of main engine and auxiliary machineries
Had a chance to travel to more than 10 countries in the middle east, Asia and Europe