Available for Q3 projects

Full-Stack Engineer
building scalable systems

Portrait of Abebe Mekonen

Hi, I'm Abebe Mekonen -Full-Stack Engineer

I've spent the last decade designing software that people actually enjoy using - from real-time fintech dashboards to developer tools used by thousands of engineers.

I believe great products come from sharp thinking, strong opinions, and an obsession with details. TypeScript is my home base, but my real craft is turning fuzzy ideas into elegant, shipped systems.

Journey

2022 — Present

Independent Software Consultant

Partnering with startups and scale-ups to architect TypeScript products end-to-end.

2019 — 2022

Staff Engineer · FinanceCo

Led the migration of a monolith to a type-safe modular platform serving 2M+ users.

2018

Open-source contributor

Maintainer of two TypeScript libraries with 5k+ combined GitHub stars.

2016

BSc Computer Science

Graduated with honors, specializing in distributed systems and compilers.

8+
Years building products
60+
Shipped projects
30+
Happy clients
12
Open-source repos
What I bring

Engineering, end-to-end.

From the first whiteboard sketch to the final deploy — I obsess over the details that users feel and developers love.

Type-safe Architecture

End-to-end TypeScript across the stack — fewer bugs, faster iteration.

Performance First

Sub-second loads, edge-optimized SSR, and Lighthouse scores in the high 90s.

Secure by Design

Hardened auth, RLS, and security reviews baked into every shipped feature.

Developer Experience

Beautiful APIs, clean abstractions, and tooling your team will actually love.

My toolkit

The technologies I reach for to ship modern, production-grade products.

TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsTanStackPostgreSQLSupabasetRPCGraphQLTailwindViteCloudflareDockerAWS

Got an idea worth shipping?

Let's turn it into a product your users love and your team is proud to maintain.

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