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Dagmawi Teka

@dagmawiteka

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Senior React Native engineer building cross-platform mobile apps and React products end-to-end.

Ethiopia

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to own React Native/Expo delivery end-to-end—architecture, releases, offline-ready UX, and performance—while partnering with product and design in a remote environment with ambiguous scope.

I’m a Senior React Native engineer with 4.5+ years building cross-platform mobile apps and React web products end-to-end. I architect with Expo, TypeScript, typed data models, React Navigation, and state management, integrating REST/GraphQL and Node.js backends with caching and resilient offline UX.

I ship polished iOS/Android experiences from feature design through App Store and Play releases, with mobile CI/CD and OTA (EAS-class) updates. I focus on production performance and reliability—owning release gates, crash/perf tracing, and API contract changes with Node-backed services.

My strength is native modules/third-party SDK integration and real-time media—like WebRTC livestreaming and GPU pipelines for face detection and beauty filters. In remote contractor settings, I’m comfortable owning ambiguous client scope, building reusable components, and collaborating closely with designers and product teams to deliver consistent partner journeys and fast startup experiences.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer (Mobile)

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Kifiya Financial Technologies

Feb 2025 - Present (1 year 5 months)

Owned React Native/Expo/TypeScript delivery for lending and device financing apps, partnering with 10+ banks across eligibility, disbursement, installments, and repayment flows. Designed navigation/state architecture and offline-aware UX, and managed release gates, crash/performance tracing, and API contract changes with Node-backed services.

React Native Expo TypeScript React Navigation State Management Auth Session Recovery Caching Resilient API Recovery Crash Perf Tracing

Current

Senior React Native Engineer (Part-time)

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Tikus

Jul 2024 - Present (2 years)

Built and scaled a React Native consumer app with reusable UI, feed architecture, and real-time WebRTC livestreaming. Integrated GPU face detection, beauty filters, and video processing/compression via native modules and third-party SDK boundaries, and improved render performance with caching alongside Node.js/TypeScript and Redis-backed services.

React Native WebRTC Live Streaming IOS Android Bridging GPU Face Detection Beauty Filters Video Processing Caching Performance Optimization TypeScript Redis

Full-Stack / Mobile Engineer

Ablaze Labs

Jun 2024 - Feb 2025 (8 months)

Shipped React and React Native experiences supporting over 10K DAU, including payment and third-party integrations. Implemented hardened loading/caching and failure UX, and set up automated CI/CD with staged App Store and Play checks in collaboration with design and QA.

React React Native Payments Integration Third Party Integrations CI CD app store Caching Load Failure UX

Software Engineer

Africa Jobs Network

Aug 2022 - Jan 2024 (1 year 5 months)

Delivered a multi-tenant React/TypeScript product UI with Node/NestJS REST APIs, including complex forms, RBAC, searchable lists, and reusable component patterns adopted across teams.

React TypeScript NestJS REST APIs RBAC

Software Engineer

Borsa Technologies

Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 (5 months)

Improved React web fetching, caching, and real-time tooling for a logistics product while working in an async contractor-style setup with US stakeholders across time zones.

React Fetch Caching