Curriculum vitae

Tadesse Angaw

Engineering lead with deep experience building fintech platforms, distributed backend systems, mobile products, and high-availability financial workflows.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia [email protected] linkedin.com/in/TadesseAngaw

Summary

I lead engineering work across fintech, banking integrations, distributed systems, and mobile platforms. My recent work includes scaling a multi-bank digital lending platform, guiding microservice architecture, leading incident response, and supporting teams across backend, mobile, and platform engineering.

Experience

Kifiya Financial Technology

Engineering Lead, Fintech Platform

Apr 2022 - Present

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • Led engineering strategy and execution for a multi-bank digital lending platform.
  • Delivered a configurable white-label platform powering multiple bank-branded products through shared core services and bank-specific deployments.
  • Scaled the platform to 700K+ borrowers and 70B+ in loan disbursements across five banks, with focus on availability and reliability.
  • Directed the design, development, and operation of about 20 microservices supporting financial workflows, integrations, and decisioning.
  • Designed event-driven architectures using Kafka and RabbitMQ for asynchronous processing.
  • Designed and supported financial transaction workflows with attention to data consistency, idempotent processing, and reconciliation across distributed services.
  • Led production incident response and stabilization for a high-traffic platform serving 1.5M+ users across multiple banks.
  • Led cross-functional backend, mobile, and platform engineering teams.

Addis Fortune

Software Engineer / Technical Lead

Sep 2020 - Mar 2022

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • Led development of scalable digital platforms across mobile and backend systems.
  • Designed APIs and backend services supporting high-traffic mobile applications.
  • Contributed to system architecture and mentored engineering team members.

360 Ground

Software Engineer / Technical Lead

Aug 2017 - Aug 2020

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  • Led development of Meda, an early super-app platform combining real-time messaging, gaming, and financial integrations.
  • Designed and implemented a real-time chat system supporting large-scale user interaction.
  • Built a high-concurrency trivia platform for hundreds of thousands of concurrent users using Google Cloud infrastructure.
  • Engineered solutions for real-time database limits including high fan-out and concurrent updates.
  • Integrated Amole wallet into platform services for mini-app and core application transactions.
  • Developed backend APIs and services for scalable mobile applications.

Cru Org

Remote Engineering Contributor, Jesus Film Project Mobile Application

Remote

  • Modernized mobile architecture and improved application stability and performance.
  • Introduced features improving content distribution and user experience.

Core Competencies

  • Financial systems and fintech platforms
  • Distributed systems and microservices
  • High availability and system reliability
  • Payment and banking integrations
  • Scalability and performance optimization
  • Engineering leadership and team management
  • Stakeholder collaboration

Technical Expertise

Languages
Kotlin, Java, Python, Node.js
Frameworks
Spring Boot, FastAPI
Messaging
Kafka, RabbitMQ
Databases
PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Architecture
Microservices, event-driven systems

Education

Assosa University

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science - GPA 3.62

Assosa, Ethiopia - July 2017