Michael Mesfin Duke

Independent Full-Stack Consultant at Self-Employed / Independent

Designed a high-concurrency booking engine handling 1,000+ simultaneous transactions; engineered a custom life cycle state-machine to ensure transaction integrity. Modernized backend processing by migrating to Solid Queue, streamlining the infrastructure stack and improving job persistence and workflow reliability. Optimized Velocity Platform by reducing redundant API traffic by 25% via AbortController signal orchestration and state persistence optimization. Established GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines to increase deployment stability across release cycles.

Senior Frontend Performance Engineer at Kifiya Financial Technology

Reduced Largest Contentful Paint by 57% (4.2 s → 1.8 s) through route-level code-splitting and Next.js SSR architecture. Increased mobile retention 20% and engagement 30% across 50K+ active users. Reduced engineering review cycle latency 90% through automated CI linting governance pipelines. Standardized PR life cycle architecture improving time-to-production by 15%.

Software Engineer at Fibertech Fiber Glass Addis Ababa

Migrated a 150K-LOC PHP monolith to Laravel microservices, cutting query latency by 35%. Increased release frequency by 50% through CI/CD pipeline automation and tooling updates. Engineered an AWS-backed ERP reliability framework achieving 99.9% uptime with automated health checks and RDS failover. Designed RESTful APIs for 50+ stakeholders, eliminating over 60 hours per month of manual reporting.

Engineering Mentor at Microverse Remote

Boosted delivery velocity by 40% for 20+ developers by architecting debugging frameworks and reviewing pipelines for 500+ PRs.