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tewodrose bekure

@tewodrosebekure

Head of Infrastructure at Kifiya Financial Technology PLC, with experience across telecom networks and enterprise infrastructure.

Ethiopia

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At Kifiya Financial Technology PLC, I work as Head of Infrastructure, following infrastructure leadership work at Excellerent Solutions and experience across the telecom sector.

At Excellerent Solutions, I designed, implemented, maintained, and supported IT infrastructure. I deployed AWS servers for projects and designed Office 365 for staff.

Earlier, I worked on telecom and IP network projects at Ericsson, Huawei, and ZTE. My work included configuring routers, switches, and firewalls, preparing network design documents, and supporting IP RAN deployments and maintenance.

I hold CCNA and CCNP certifications and have studied Python programming and data analysis and visualization at Addis Ababa University. I’m also interested in cloud computing, fintech, and data analytics.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Head of Infrastructure

Current

Kifiya Financial Technology PLC

May 2024 - Present (2 years 6 months)

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

• Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights.

• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively in a remote team environment.

IT Consultant

Systems Edge Solutions

Feb 2024 - Jun 2025 (1 year 4 months)

Worked as IT Consultant at Systems Edge Solutions.

IT Specialist and consultant

Cimac

Jan 2024 - May 2024 (4 months)

Worked as IT Specialist and consultant at Cimac.

Senior Network Specialist

Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia PLC

Sep 2023 - May 2024 (8 months)

 Datacenter monitoring using NMS tools like ZABBIX, CACTI and Arista monitoring tools
 Give support for infrastructure team members for VPN and other software connection and installation issues
 Working on Cisco controllers and AP devices /Migration and deployment/
 Participate in the cable installation /Fiber and LAN cables / and rack installation
 Participate in the survey, design and I

Infrastructure Lead

Excellerent Solutions

Jun 2019 - Sep 2023 (4 years 3 months)

Site supervisor and Implimentation Manager

Ericsson

Jan 2016 - May 2019 (3 years 4 months)

 supervise Installation of both SWAP and NSB sites.
 integrate 2G and 3G services, (work on RBS 6000 family.)
 Commission Ericsson Microwave devices (TN6, TN20)
 participate in the Acceptance of NSB (New site Build) and SWAP (Existing sites) sites (Both RAN and Microwave devices)
 Participate in the design of IP address planning LLD (Low level design) documents for the three Ericsson circle

Datacom Engineer

Huawei

Jan 2014 - Feb 2016 (2 years 1 month)

 Participate in the survey (study the existing IP NGN network and collect all necessary data for design and planning Addis Ababa and North circle cities IP RAN network)
 Participate in the design of topology, IP address planning and configuration script writing and Prepare HLD (High level design) and LLD (Low level design) documents for the Addis Ababa and North circle IP RAN projects
 configur

IP NGN engineer

ZTE Corporation

Apr 2008 - Feb 2014 (5 years 10 months)

 participate in the Ethiopian telecommunication corporation IP NGN (Internet protocol next Generation network) and fixed line projects
 Configuration of High-end routers
 Configuration of core switch
 Master NMS and NNOC UNMS (National Network operation center/ Unified Network management system) systems as a result develop a skill of troubleshooting Using alarms displayed in the Network ma