About
Experience
A2SV - Africa to Silicon Valley
Lead Head of Education
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia & Accra, Ghana
01/2021 - 04/2023
• Volunteered at A2SV, a non-profit that connects African students with top Silicon Valley companies. I orchestrated the successful expansion of educational efforts to the University of Ghana Legon, establishing strategic partnerships and increasing student enrollment to over 80 attendees in the first kickoff. We achieved a 70% success rate in 2022 Google interviews, conducted video calls with new hires to conduct technical and behavioral interviews, and managed all education efforts for more than 120 students as head of education. I gained considerable experience and mastered leadership, problem-solving, prioritizing, task management, soft skills, and time management skills while reporting directly to and working closely with the CEO. I also delivered lectures, prepared on data structures & algorithms and soft skills to over 100 students, and was honored as the best lecturer during our boot camps by over 200 students from Ethiopia's best universities.
Nvapps
Android Developer Part-Time Nvapps
London, UK, Remote
10/2021 - 03/2022
• Worked on an Android app used by millions, of 500K+ daily active users, fixed bugs, and implemented new features by using Android Studio, Java, Kotlin, Google Maps API, Retrofit, Activities, and XMLs.
Eskalate LLC
Junior Product Manager
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Remote
01/2020 - 06/2021
• Worked directly with Square Company's Head of Product Manager on the TrackSym, a non-commercial app dedicated to aiding Ethiopia during COVID-19, acquiring hands-on experience and mentorship in feature prioritization, requirements gathering, and UI/UX design using Flutter and AdobeXD.
Turkish Aerospace
Software Engineer Intern
Ankara, Turkey
06/2019 - 07/2019
• Developed and documented a PLM project utilizing Siemens Teamcenter (RCP) and created a Java desktop app actively used by hundreds of employees at Turkish Aerospace factories. Utilized Swing, C/C++, and Ilk Libraries, Java Apache Poi, and Java Teamcenter SOA Libraries.
Education
B.S. in Computer Engineering
Çankaya University, Ankara, Turkey
09/2016 - 07/2020
• Helped students in data structures and algorithms lectures as a student assistant in 2019 Spring.
• Founded and coordinated a cyber security social club, organized events/conferences, and invited industry professionals.
Projects
A comprehensive full-stack web application developed as part of Colt Steele's Udemy web development bootcamp, with a focus on secure user authentication, database management, and responsive UI design for campground reviews.
• Utilized HTML5, CSS3, Modern JS(ES6), MVC, Flexbox, Asynchronous JavaScript (Promises, async/await), Bootstrap 5, DOM Manipulation, Node.js, Express.js, NPM, EJS Templating, REST API, NoSQL, MongoDB, Schema Design, Mongoose, Authentication (Cookies & Sessions), Authorization, Security Best Practices, Deployment and Cloud Databases, Mongo Atlas, Render, Image Upload and Storage, Maps and Geocoding.
• Led a 10-person team, delegating tasks and organizing daily meetings
• Developed a mobile app, focusing on the home page, for item-specific feedback
• Managed 50+ people to collect data from 35+ restaurants in Addis Ababa
• Motivated Product, UI/UX, and Backend teams proactively to create an initial product design
• Resolved team conflicts and conducted performance evaluations
• Directed a promotional film for the app
• Utilized Flutter, Dart, Android Studio, VS Code, Github, Trello, and Google Calendar
Small/Side Projects
Simple calculator written in pure JS
Kotlin notes for absolute beginner
Simple mobile app that shows daily news
BFS and DFS algorithms visualizer
A single-player, platform, and adventure mobile game
Local car combat game
Automated maze generation algorithm
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