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Projects

Things I built.
Named in my languages.

Every project is named in Amharic or Tigrinya — the languages I think in. The names are not decorative. They describe exactly what each project does.

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Kiray

ኪራይ · Tigrinya — rent / lease

AI · Real Estate · SaaS

In progress

AI-powered real estate marketplace for the Canadian market.

Multi-sided platform connecting buyers, renters, and agents through semantic AI matching. Generalized architecture designed to support future verticals — car rentals, equipment leasing — on the same matching engine.

NestJSTypeScriptNext.js 15OpenAIAWS ECS/FargateTerraformRedisPostgreSQLPrometheusGrafana

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AI-Waga

ዋጋ · Amharic — cost / price

AI · Observability · SaaS

In progress

AI agent cost observability platform.

SaaS product that ingests AI agent cost events, stores them, and surfaces them through a dashboard. Companies using AI agents have no visibility into what they cost until the bill arrives. Waga solves that.

Next.jsTypeScriptAWS LambdaPostgreSQLTerraformCloudWatch

Milketa

ምልከታ · Amharic — intelligence / observation

Data Engineering · AWS · Serverless

In progress

Serverless ecommerce data pipeline on AWS.

End-to-end automated pipeline — raw CSV in, business insights out, zero manual work. S3 → Lambda → Glue Crawler → Glue ETL (PySpark) → Athena SQL. Every resource provisioned with Terraform. CloudWatch monitoring and SNS alerting throughout.

AWS GluePySparkLambdaS3AthenaTerraformCloudWatchSNSPython

Demena

ድምና · Tigrinya — cloud

DevOps · AWS · Infrastructure

Shipped

Full-stack app deployed end-to-end on AWS.

41 AWS resources provisioned with Terraform. ECS Fargate with Prometheus and Grafana sidecar observability, ALB with path-based routing, RDS MySQL in private subnets, VPC with public/private subnets, NAT Gateway, ECR, IAM, CloudWatch, SNS. GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline. Six documented production debugging stories from the real deployment.

ReactTypeScriptRedux ToolkitNode.jsTypeORMExpressMySQLDockerAWS ECS FargateAWS RDSAWS ALBAWS VPCAWS ECRAWS IAMAWS CloudWatchAWS SNSTerraformPrometheusGrafanaGitHub Actions

myHommy

Calgary real estate platform

Full-Stack · Real Estate · MERN

Shipped

Real estate marketplace for buying and renting in Calgary.

Full-stack MERN application with Google Maps integration, real-time chat via Socket.IO, JWT authentication, and AWS S3 for image storage. Built for the Calgary market.

ReactNode.jsMongoDBExpressAWS S3Socket.IOGoogle Maps APIJWT

AMONG YYC

Calgary exploration game

Mobile · React Native · Firebase

Shipped

Mobile game for exploring Calgary attractions.

React Native mobile game built as InceptionU bootcamp final project. Firebase authentication, Firestore real-time database, admin portal in React/Node.js. Promoted local Calgary landmarks through interactive gameplay.

React NativeFirebaseFirestoreNode.jsReact

Portfolio

amtenu.ca · This site

Full-Stack · DevOps · Portfolio

Live

Production-grade developer portfolio with CI/CD.

Built from scratch — no templates. Next.js 16, TypeScript, Tailwind v4. Live Calgary weather, real-time HackerNews feed, dark mode, automated test suite, CI/CD quality gate on every commit.

Next.js 16TypeScriptTailwind v4JestGitHub ActionsVercel

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