Chera Mihiretu Tadesse
Ethiopia | Github | LinkedIn
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Mobile Developer, Africa to Silicon Valley
10/2024 – Present | Adama
Spearheaded the engineering culture shift toward Test-Driven Development (TDD), architecting reusable Mockito
stubs that increased test coverage from 42% to 85% and slashed regression defects by 30%.
Accelerated developer velocity by refactoring core modules into Clean Architecture; this reduced code complexity by
25% and optimized documentation, cutting new-hire onboarding time from 14 days to just 5 days.
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Full-stack Developer, Sydek
07/2025 – 09/2025 | Adama
Architected resilient NestJS backend services, designing robust RESTful APIs that sustained high-traffic loads and
guaranteed 99.9% uptime for mission-critical web features.
Maximized database throughput by 30% and slashed query latency by 40% through advanced PostgreSQL indexing
(GIN/GIST), schema normalization, and strategic query refactoring.
Instituted a Dockerized CI/CD pipeline, automating e2e testing (Jest + Supertest) to preemptively resolve 150+
staging bottlenecks and accelerate release cycles by 25%.
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PROJECTS
ASTU Smart Knowledge Base,
06/2025 – Present
Study smart. Code fast. Crush your exams.
Formulated intelligent post recommendation algorithms using advanced query heuristics, which drove a 29x
increase in user engagement (from 1% to 30%) and boosted connection acceptance rates.
Optimized system performance by implementing Redis for rate limiting and message queuing; this reduced user
wait times by 40% and cut operational cloud costs by 2.4%.
Modernized legacy infrastructure by migrating the csrobots library from Python 2.7 (Desktop) to a Python 3.13 webbased platform, scaling access to 300+ instructors and students.
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Theft Detecting System, Smart Security, Powered by Intelligence.
02/2025 – 05/2025
Developed a real-time surveillance ecosystem, integrating a cross-platform Flutter app with IoT hardware (ESP32,
Arduino) and FastAPI backend for sub-second video streaming.
Orchestrated an intelligent alert system using backend-triggered push notifications and local caching, optimizing
data storage handling (100MB+) and improving video replay speed by 43%.
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EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering,
03/2022 – Present | Ethiopia
Adama Science and Technology University
Relevant Courses: Distributed Systems, Advanced Databases, Systems Engineering, Advanced Java.
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Tech Education and Incubation | A2SV - Backed by Google,
12/2023 – 08/2025
African to Silicon Valley
A2SV graduate , Solving more than 1300 problems across Leetcode and Codeforces , completing over 1000 hours of
Data Structures and Algorithms training and participating in over 400 contests.
Relevant Coursework: Dynamic programming, Tree and Graph Algorithms, Binary search, Bit manipulation, Trie.
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AWS Cloud Computing, ALX Africa
01/2025 – 11/2025 | Remote
Completed AWS Cloud Practitioner & Solutions Architect certifications, gaining hands-on experience through 21
real-world labs (including 8 challenge labs). Achieved 95%+ scores across major AWS services like Lambda, VPC, and
EC2.
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SKILLS
Languages: Python, Java, C++, Typescript, Golang
Cloud & DevOps: AWS (Lambda, VPC), TDD, CI/CD, Docker
Frameworks & Tools: Flutter, Next.js, FastAPI
Others: Machine Learning, IoT, AI Agents, CP, SQL, NoSQL
AWARDS AND CERTIFICATION
2025 ACPC (Africa and Arab Collegiate Programming Championship) – Qualified among the top 50+ teams in
Ethiopia.
2024 EtCPC Nationwide in high-pressure team competition (team of 3) from a 60+ team.
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner: Expertise in AWS fundamentals and cloud best practices.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Proficient in designing secure, scalable, and cost-optimized AWS
architectures.
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LEADERSHIP
LocalizeAI, Leveraging Generative AI to Benefit Ethiopians
Led team of 4 as backend developer, building AI-driven localization tools; project ranked in top 8 out of 54 entries.
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