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Daniel Mesfin

Selected work

Products shipped end to end.

A few of the systems I have designed, built and put in front of real users.

Open AI Creative Award

AI Creative Award

Ethiopia's largest AI creative competition, by Ehudai and the Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute. Designed, built, and deployed single-handedly; 50,000+ users voting at burst scale.

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Open Ehudai

Ehudai

AI-powered content creation platform integrating 15+ AI services for story generation, character development, and video production

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Open Reveshare

Reveshare

Mobile-first affiliate management platform listed on Shopify App Store with commission tracking

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Open MiranaPM

MiranaPM

Multi-tenant property management platform streamlining rental operations with automated billing, maintenance tracking, and comprehensive financial reporting

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Case studies

The reasoning behind the build.

Longer write-ups — the problem, the architecture, the decisions, and what shipped.

Read the EhudAI case study

AI & Machine Learning

EhudAI

AI-Powered Content Creation Studio

EhudAI is an end-to-end AI-powered platform for movie and content production that brings story creation, character development, visual generation, and video production into a single workflow.

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Read the AI Creative Award case study

Scale & Anti-Abuse

AI Creative Award

Building a Vote-at-Scale Competition Platform Solo

A monthly creative competition where people submit AI-generated art, vote on their favorites, and compete for a 1M ETB prize pool. I designed, built, and shipped the entire platform — architecture, infrastructure, UI, and anti-abuse systems — as a single developer.

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Read the Reveshare case study

E-commerce

Reveshare

Affiliate Management & Commission Tracking Platform

Reveshare is an affiliate management platform that helps e-commerce brands run their affiliate programs with automated commission tracking, campaign management, and payouts. The platform is listed on the Shopify App Store.

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How it goes

Five years, shipping in production.

September 2025 — Present

Remote

Senior Data Engineer · Lexis Solutions

  • Building large-scale data extraction and intelligence tools, with 100+ production web crawlers built and maintained to date
  • Devising anti-bot bypass techniques — browser fingerprint randomisation, session and proxy rotation, and CAPTCHA-solving pipelines — to sustain collection against heavily protected sources
  • Designing resilient crawl infrastructure with scheduling, retries, and rate limiting so collection degrades gracefully rather than failing outright
  • Instrumenting crawler health and data-quality monitoring that surfaces layout changes and silent failures before they reach downstream consumers
  • Normalising extracted data into clean, queryable schemas for analytics and downstream services
  • Managing the data team — running weekly sprint planning, grooming and assigning tickets, reviewing code, and unblocking teammates

October 2023 — October 2025

Remote, USA

Software Engineer · Arez Armada

  • Collaborated with clients to define solution requirements
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to create project guidelines and milestones
  • Implemented Marketing and Messaging tools that automate outbounding emails, increasing efficiency 10x
  • Provided guidance and mentored less-experienced staff members

January 2023 — March 2023

Remote, Addis Ababa

Full Stack Web / Blockchain Developer · The Carbon Games (Upwork)

  • Built Web3 applications based on Ethereum, NEAR Protocol, Cairo BC and Particle Network independently
  • Collaborated on application development cycle i.e. Identifying Requirements, Designing and Deployment
  • Implemented Complex Matching algorithms that are core to carbon games ride sharing contracts

January 2023 — March 2023

Remote, Addis Ababa

Full Stack Developer · UniteCodeX

  • Worked as a MERN full stack developer, specifically on a SaaS project
  • Converted designs from Figma to functional Next.js code
  • Played a crucial role in testing and maintaining backend services, resulting in a 25% reduction in system bugs

March 2022 — January 2023

On Site, Addis Ababa

Front End Developer · EagleLion

  • Worked as a frontend developer in the design and development of user-friendly financial software for banks and other businesses
  • Successfully migrated React apps into a serverless framework, reducing operational costs by 15%

Credentials

Certifications.

What I build

Three things, done properly.

Focused engagements where you need the system itself — not another dashboard to check.

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Full-stack development

  • Scalable web applications and SaaS platforms
  • REST APIs and backend services
  • Admin dashboards and internal tools
  • E-commerce and payment integrations
  • Multi-tenant and role-based systems
02

AI agents & automation

  • Custom AI-powered tools and workflows
  • LLM integrations and agentic systems
  • Intelligent content generation pipelines
  • Chatbots and conversational interfaces
  • AI service orchestration across providers
03

Scraping & data engineering

  • Large-scale web scraping and data extraction
  • Automated data collection pipelines
  • Data transformation and cleaning workflows
  • Scheduled scraping with monitoring
  • Custom crawlers and API integrations

Toolkit

The stack I reach for.

React
Next.js
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
Redux
GraphQL
Tailwind
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
Database
Firebase
AWS
Docker
Terraform
Redis
RabbitMQ
TensorFlow
AI/ML
HTML5
CSS3
Angular
Java
Webpack

Contact

Let’s build something.

Have a project in mind, or just want to say hello? Send a message and I’ll reply within a couple of days.

Based in

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Availability

Open to freelance and contract work.