Jiru Gutema

I was raised in Addis Ababa and educated in the Ethiopian public school system. In early 2025, I completed a Google-backed full-stack web-development bootcamp known locally as the Coding Academy (African to Silicon Valley), where I studied advanced data structures and algorithms — including graph and tree algorithms, dynamic programming, and advanced string algorithms.

Between November 2024 and January 2025, I completed an intensive at the Information Network Security Agency (INSA) Summer Program covering introduction to cybersecurity, ethical hacking and cryptography.

Since January 2022, I have been pursuing a Bachelor of Science in software engineering at Addis Ababa University, with expected graduation in September 2027. My coursework spans web development, mobile application development with Flutter, fundamentals of software engineering, data structures and algorithms, operating systems, computer architecture, object-oriented programming and software development.

I have worked full-time at Mereb Technologies as a full-stack developer on an FastAPI platform. I design and scale asynchronous microservices in Python, using SQLAlchemy and asyncio behind REST APIs, with a clean separation of concerns between transport, domain and persistence layers.

The platform runs on a dual-database architecture: MS SQL Server handles transactional (OLTP) workloads, while StarRocks serves real-time analytical (OLAP) queries. I build the ingestion pipelines between them — including work with StarRocks' Stream Load interface — to aggregate large volumes of transactional data for live analysis, and I deploy, monitor and secure the resulting workloads on Microsoft Azure using Docker and managed secret storage.

I have worked remotely as a fullstack developer at Addis Ababa University, contributing to a Regional Property Management System (PMS) built with Angular and .NET Core. The system streamlines property registration, tenant management, billing, payments, and reporting across a scalable, multi-tenant platform serving regional property needs.

The system is organised as a cloud-ready microservices architecture with an emphasis on scalability, performance and observability: Keycloak for identity and access management, PostgreSQL for persistence, RabbitMQ for inter-service messaging, Redis for caching, and Prometheus, Grafana and Jaeger for metrics, dashboards and distributed tracing.

Between February and June 2026, I held a fullstack-developer role at Mereb Technologies, where I developed and maintained full-stack features for Bahmni-based healthcare software systems, including legacy application maintenance, improvements, and the addition of new functionality to support clinical operations and healthcare workflows.

I served as a part-time backend developer at Gulit Marketplace. I designed and implemented scalable backend services for authentication, admin dashboards and user management using Express.js, PostgreSQL and Redis; I also developed secure APIs with role-based access control and integrated them with frontend dashboards.

I collaborated on backend development to build and enhance server-side applications using Express.js on Node.js with a MySQL backing store, and contributed to the company website redesign project, focusing on reliable backend architecture and workflows.

Main article: List of works by Jiru Gutema

In addition to my employment, I have authored several independent software projects, primarily web applications, browser extensions and developer tools. A selection are summarised in the table below; a fuller list is available at List of works by Jiru Gutema.

I have contributed to several open-source projects, with a focus on developer tooling and localisation:

1. GibbonEdu fixed typo in GibbonEdu offical documentation.
2. JiruGutema/react-next_folder enhanced user experience with commands and added multi-argument support for creating multiple React/Next.js folders simultaneously.
3. mpopp75/db4free-net-l10n contributed an Afaan Oromoo translation pool to the db4free.net free online database host platform.

My public GitHub account (@JiruGutema) holds more than a hundred repositories and contains the source for most of the projects listed above, including Email Craft, KaiShare, Tooran, Hide YouTube Shorts, Page Marker and Content Section Blocker.

Alongside those, the account is where I work through systems and language fundamentals in the open. In Go this includes a reusable RBAC service module, an in-memory key–value store, a pastebin service with link expiry, and a remote-procedure-call exercise from my distributed-systems coursework; in C# and .NET it includes minimal-API and enterprise-application coursework projects. I also publish my dotfiles and Neovim configuration, which is the editor I do most of my work in. I additionally maintain profiles on LeetCode and LinkedIn.

I credit educational and science programming as a continuing influence on my approach to engineering — Veritasium, StarTalk and 3Blue1Brown have been informal sources of mathematical and physical intuition. I prefer to write clean, efficient and maintainable code, and I have a continuing interest in full-stack development, machine learning and cloud computing.

Colleagues and mentors have described my work in generally positive terms. Anteneh Yimmam, Education Lead at the Ethioware EdTech Initiative, noted my initiative in suggesting React as the framework for the company website redesign, and described me as a team player who handles project requirements carefully and delivers timely updates. Yimmam concluded that I "will excel in any backend web development role he pursues" and that he would "welcome the opportunity to work with him again".

A list of my published writings is available at /blogs. Topics include software development, web technologies and programming best practices.

I am a native speaker of Afaan Oromoo and I am fluent in Amharic and English. I live in Addis Ababa.

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