Programme& Research

Every project starts with research. Three years delivering programmes and platforms — mission-critical government systems, the 20th ILO Regional Conference, and Ethiopia's Miss/Mr International pageant — plus a technical immersion in China's digital infrastructure model at Huawei and TD Tech.

Years of
experience

+13

Projects
completed

Organizations
served

Research-first programme & platform delivery

China's digital infrastructure, up close

RecentProjects

Every one started with research into the people and the requirements behind it — then shipped to production.

ILO Ethiopia 2025

Researched requirements and delivered the end-to-end registration, accreditation, and payments programme for the 20th ILO Regional Conference for Labour-Based Practitioners at the African Union HQ — QR badges, card and Telebirr payments.

INSA · Addis Ababa

Miss/Mr International Ethiopia

Led programme operations for Ethiopia's national leadership pageant — registration, voting, ticketing, and a gate-scanning PWA — for 150+ contestants and 10,000+ votes, three years running.

Live · NEGED ET

Headwind MDM

Researched field-deployment needs and built custom geofencing and device policies for 30,000+ tablets used in a national statistics data-collection programme.

Ethiopian Statistics Service

Kurucard

Researched and built an NFC/QR digital business-card platform with an admin dashboard, used by Beza Posterity Development Organization for investor-relations outreach.

Live · Laravel, React Inertia

Self-Hosted AI Harness

Scoped and deployed a self-hosted AI stack — a fine-tuned LLM on vLLM, orchestrated through Dify workflows — adopted across multiple government and partner systems.

Internal · INSA & partners

Maguyea

Delivered a digital marketplace programme connecting verified actors and models with casting professionals.

Live · NEGED ET

Signal — Private Fork

Researched secure-communications requirements and delivered a self-hosted Signal fork (server, Android, desktop), adopted by thousands across Ethiopian government campaigns.

Confidential · INSA

Medemer

Delivered an audiobook streaming platform for Medemer, the Ethiopian Prime Minister's political philosophy book, published on the Play Store and the App Store.

Live

Web Play Store App Store

3+ Years ofExperience

INSA

Programme & Platform Delivery · DevOps — Information Network Security Administration

Researched requirements and delivered the end-to-end programme for the 20th ILO Regional Conference for Labour-Based Practitioners, alongside operational research behind a government-wide fuel programme (250+ vehicles) and procurement research for the Ethiopian Agricultural Businesses Corporation.

May 2023 - Present

NEGED ET

Co-Founder, Programme & Platform Lead — Startup

Led programme operations for Miss/Mr International Ethiopia — 150+ contestants, 10,000+ public votes, three years running — alongside Kurucard, Maguyea, and custom ERP systems.

2025 - Present

People to People Aid Organization

Programme Support, Community Asset Mapping — Canada

Researched user needs and local context before building a community asset-mapping programme with live Google Maps tracking, offline-first search, and crowdsourced contributions.

Feb 2024 - Sep 2024

Upwork — Microsoft Study

Research Participant/Contributor — MSFT391 developer research study

Contributed to an international research study on AI-assisted development workflows, commissioned by Microsoft.

2024

ChinaImmersion

Two weeks across Hangzhou and Chengdu — Huawei, TD Tech, the Huawei Global Training Center, and everything in between: the food, the people, the sights.