Dagem

Building great
software,
one commit at a time.

I'm Dagem — a full-stack engineer with 9+ years of experience building microservices, REST APIs and the cloud they run on, and shipping products worth using.

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9+
Years Exp.
3,000+
Businesses Served
85+
Services in Production
8,000+
Daily Transactions
Dagem Amare

Work

Selected Projects

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SaaS · Microservices

E-Invoicing Platform

Multi-tenant SaaS for tax-authority e-invoicing

2025Next.jsNestJS

Fintech

Payment Gateway

TeleBirr and 8 more providers behind one API

2023NestJSPrisma

Microservice

Messaging Gateway

Email, SMS and Telegram for every tenant

2026NestJSBullMQ

Enterprise

Maraki ERP

Full-featured enterprise resource planning

2021C# / .NETAngular

Enterprise

Maraki POS

Modern point-of-sale for retail

2025

The Lab

Side projects & archive

Experiments, side projects and the apps that started it all.

5 projects

Expertise

Technical Skills

These are just the tip of the codeberg — the opening act. The real show begins when you bring me a project.

Languages & Frameworks
C# / .NET.NET CoreTypeScriptJavaScriptDartSQL
Web
Next.jsReactAngularNode.jstRPC
Backend & Architecture
MicroservicesREST APIsCQRSNestJSBullMQRabbitMQRedis
Mobile
FlutterDartiOSAndroid
Cloud & DevOps
AWS (EC2, S3, RDS)OpenStackDockerDocker SwarmDokploynginxHAProxyCI/CDGitHub ActionsSentryVercel
Blockchain
SolidityEthereumWeb3.jsSmart Contracts
Tools & Design
VS CodeGitTailwind CSSFigmaPostman

Background

Experience & Education

My journey through full-stack development, microservices, cloud infrastructure, blockchain, and academia.

Work Experience

Full-Stack Engineer
Freelance
Current
2023 — Present·Remote
  • TeleBirr payment gateway processing 8,000+ daily transactions, with a double-entry ledger and row-locked settlement.
  • Fintech, SaaS and mobile products for 5+ remote clients, from design to production.
  • Client platforms on self-hosted Dokploy (Docker Swarm) with HAProxy, RabbitMQ and Seq.
Consultant (Infrastructure, Security & Architecture)
The World Bank Group
Dec 2025 — Aug 2026·Addis Ababa
  • Architected a student portal for a government institution serving 10,000+ students.
  • Led infrastructure, security and deployment for auditable releases.
Software Engineer
Marakisoft
Current
Feb 2021 — Present·Addis Ababa
  • ERP & POS platforms used daily by 3,000+ businesses.
  • Independently deployable services (e-invoicing, messaging gateway, storefront) talking over internal REST APIs.
  • .NET 10 CQRS services and 85+ containerised services on AWS and an OpenStack private cloud.
Blockchain Developer
MMCY Tech
Mar 2022 — Aug 2022·New York
  • NFT marketplace features and Polygon smart contracts.
Software Developer
Marelworks
Jun 2017 — Jan 2021·Addis Ababa
  • Web and mobile apps across front-end and back-end with C#/.NET and Angular.
Software Developer
MNET Technologies
Oct 2015 — Dec 2019·Addis Ababa
  • Web apps and data scrapers; database stability and backups.

Education

Software Engineering — MSc
HiLCoE School of Computer Science
Mar 2021 — Dec 2024·Addis Ababa
Computer Science — BSc
HiLCoE School of Computer Science
Oct 2015 — Dec 2019·Addis Ababa

Toolbox

My Beloved Dev Stack

The tools I reach for every day. Hard to pick favorites, but these have become my trusty companions.

VS Code
Primary IDE
FlutterReact.NETNext.js
GitHub
Version Control
GitBitbucket.gitignoreAzure DevOps
Tailwind CSS
UI Styling
BootstrapMaterial UIHeadless UIRadix UI
Vercel
Deployment
PlanetScaleHerokuAWSRailway
ChatGPT
AI Assistant
CopilotTensorFlowStackOverflowBing AI

Let's Talk

Get in Touch

Whether you have a project, a job offer, or just want to say hello — I'd love to hear from you. Drop me a line.

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