Filmon Tewelde

Technical Team Lead

Service Management Group (Remote)

• Design and develop high throughput microservices on Azure, .NET 6/.NET 8, and Angular handling millions of requests per day.
• Design Azure cloud-native applications for PaaS and SaaS services.
• Continuously Propose and successfully implement new technologies and integrations.
• Continuously improve and update documentation and automation tools to improve visibility and ease the reuse of resources.
• Participated in front-end projects with Blazor micro-frontend and CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• Develop Integrations projects with 3rd party API’s and tools.
• Take ownership of and develop features for existing projects with little prior documentation.
• Continuously verify work performed by the development team against specifications provided by the Architect in Confluence, report deviations, follow up on fixes, and resolve blocking issues.
• DevOps, Terraform, Azure Data Factory, CI/CD pipeline for microservices on Azure, ELT pipelines.

Software Architect

Wipro Ltd (Remote)

• Designed development guidelines for Angular and .NET applications and DevOps pipeline on GitLab.
• Championed Agile practices and started Jira project collaboration for the current project.
• Mentor software engineers and engineering team leaders in the use of toolchains to produce reliable, maintainable, and secure software.
• Adopt code review and static analysis processes/tools for teams.
• Architected multi-tenant Hybrid cloud application with .NET + Angular to consolidate multiple existing applications.
• Architected a highly scalable solution for ~700k users

Senior Software Engineer/Team Lead

Excellerent Solutions, Addis Ababa

• Senior Software Engineer (Consultant) used .NET, Azure, and Angular software as team lead for local development team and collaborate of remote team. The team launched 2 products; the one being restaurant reservation app in super-app for one of the top 3 banks in Belgium; and a Real Estate rental, sales, vacation rentals aggregator software for several companies in the the local industry. 
• Engineered software and toolchains to bring AppSec front and center of development effort with SonarQube, OWASP Top 10, and Azure DevOps.
• Team Lead working with talented engineers (7) working on a diverse stack of Angular, React, .NET and Java.
• Maintain Legacy Windows Forms, and ASP.NET Web Forms legacy projects with over 100k LOC in the semiconductor and local government sectors in Belgium.
• Trained and mentored junior developers and engineers, teaching skills in Communication and Culture Fit as well as reducing friction with remote teams.
• As a Team Lead, I was responsible for evaluating the performance and timely delivery of the 7 developers in my team on various Greenfield and Legacy products. I led the coordination of Local Project Managers and Remote Software Delivery Managers the hiring of developers and assignment to projects as well as the termination of developers that were performing poorly.

Full Stack Developer

Opian Analytics, Addis Ababa

• As a full-stack software developer I was responsible for developing the Business Logic, REST API's and Angular Websites for several Health Care related products at Opian Analytics
• Besides my development tasks, I was also responsible for PR reviews and managing the Git repositories for the projects.
• As a software quality and process advocate for the development team I was frequently involved in discussions with management and remote consultants about process improvement and.
• Contributed ideas and suggestions in team meetings and delivered updates on deadlines, designs and enhancements.
• Reviewed code, debugged problems, and corrected issues.
• Collaborated with fellow engineers to evaluate software and hardware interfaces.

Consultant Engineer

New Generation Human Resources Management Plc., Addis Ababa

I was contracted by the customer to upgrade and improve upon an old software product that was used to manage Contracts for their HR outsourcing services, which provided manpower and logistics for several customers with over 1,600 employees) where my primary task was identifying lapses of contracts or amendments of contracts to improve the business process and reduce financial losses due to lack of visibility and effective reporting of the contracting process

• Recruited talent to operate the IT department as well as train the employees of the company in preparation for using the software products and digital first workspace.
• Reduced over 1M ETB/year loss in contract lapses and overlaps due to poor visibility of previous software product.
• Managed engineering engagement risk by employing simulations and rapid prototyping to reduce initial outlay and prevent costly mistakes.

Founder

UNILINK S.C, Asmara

• Was founded with the intent of providing high quality Hotel and Hospitality and School Management software for small and medium size companies.
• Negotiated terms of business to increase business base and solidify market presence.
• The most popular product was POS + Inventory (called POS+) for small businesses.
• Several custom software products for different customers were built during this time.
• Ayro Training was the educational branch where I taught modern web (HTML5+CSS3+jQuery) to high school and university students.
• Studied market to determine optimal pricing of goods and capitalize on emerging opportunities.

Junior Software Developer

Natom Information Systems, Asmara

• I was employed as a .NET software developer at Natom Information Systems where I worked on several software projects in the Hotel and Hospitality, Insurance, and Manufacturing domains.
• The products included reporting websites, back-office applications, and customer-facing websites.
• Updated old VB 6 code bases to .NET 4 with modern development standards, improving functionality.
• Participated in software field testing to verify the performance of developed projects.
• Integrated TFS Server and Test Server with System Administrators to reduce bottlenecks in larger development teams

Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing

The McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin – Online

I am learning DevOps on AWS and Azure along with the business use cases from industry leaders.

Bachelor of Science: Computer Science

Eritrea Institute of Technology - Mai Nefhi, Eritrea

GPA: 3.23, .0 scale, my senior paper was University Class Scheduling software system implemented with Genetic Algorithms (The project was very ambitious, and the generated schedules had fitness in the low 80% range)