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Nathnael Merihun

@nathnaelmerihun

Backend developer at Mereb Technologies who streamlined a marketplace-monitoring service and built a lead-generation platform from scratch.

Ethiopia

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What I'm looking for

I'm open to backend, full-stack, and data/automation engineering roles—local, remote, or with relocation.

At Mereb Technologies, I took sole ownership of a distributed service monitoring about 15 marketplaces and processing tens of thousands of listings a day. I cut its codebase by about 40%, reduced its server fleet from 12 VMs to 5, and raised test coverage from 12% to 94%; I also built the company's lead-generation platform from scratch.

Before that, I led backend development of GeezJobs' multi-tenant HR platform, covering payroll, attendance, chat and task management alongside a legacy PHP system. I also built Hematite, an embeddable SQL database in Rust, and am open to backend, full-stack, and data/automation engineering roles—local, remote, or with relocation.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Back End Developer

Current

Mereb Technologies

Aug 2026 - Present (3 months)

Promoted from intern to full-time in August 2026, owning projects end to end, mostly as the sole engineer.
Marketplace monitoring service (client project)
• Sole engineer on the scraping, rule-based filtering and storage services of a distributed system that monitors ~15 online marketplaces, screens out scam and irrelevant listings, and processes tens of thousands of listings a day for thousands o

Backend Development

Mereb Technologies

Mar 2026 - Jul 2026 (4 months)

Lead-generation platform (internal)
• Built a Django app from scratch that finds software-development contract leads across target sites, generating hundreds of leads a day with contact enrichment and automated email outreach.
• Admin UI to add target sites and update CSS selectors without code changes; leads filter by region, contract type and project type.
• Fixed out-of-memory crashes in hea

Back End Developer

GeezJobs

Jun 2025 - Nov 2025 (5 months)

GeezJobs connects job seekers and employers in Ethiopia. I led backend development (2 backend engineers, 1 frontend) of a new multi-tenant HR platform for small companies, built to plug into the existing job platform so companies could fill open roles straight from its candidate pool.
• Designed and built the Laravel REST API for employee records, leave, attendance, payroll and a Jira-style task b

Trainee

A2SV | Africa to Silicon Valley

Feb 2025 - May 2025 (3 months)

Selected for A2SV's intensive data structures and algorithms program, which prepares African engineers for roles at top tech companies. Solved 300+ problems covering graphs, dynamic programming, trees and greedy algorithms, with regular timed contests and peer problem-solving sessions.