Co-founder, Engineering & Product
Dawit Tesfaye Dula
Full-Stack Developer · Django & React
- 1st prize, AR/VR Africa Hackathon
- Shipped on Meta Quest
- Django + React
Full-stack developer building secure, scalable web apps with Django, React and Tailwind CSS. Also brings VR development and web work for the education sector.
Experience
Where the work happened.
3 months
Full-Stack Developer
Droongo System Solutions
Feb 2022 – present
Full-Stack Python Developer
Self-employed · Addis Ababa
- REST APIs with Django REST Framework, feeding React and Tailwind CSS front ends.
- Containerised back ends with Docker for consistent, deployment-ready environments.
Nov 2024 – present
WordPress Developer & SEO
Self-employed · Addis Ababa
- Websites for the education sector, designed around parents, students and staff.
- Speed and search work that put local clients in Google's top five for local searches.
Dec 2022 – Feb 2024
Unity C# & VR Developer
AWRA · Addis Ababa
- VR exposure therapy for the fear of public speaking, released on the Meta Quest store and SideQuest.
- Speech-to-text feedback, spatial audio and performance tuning for standalone headsets.
Selected work
Things built along the way.
AWRA
01VR practice for people afraid of public speaking. Won first prize at the 2022 AR/VR Africa Hackathon.
- Unity
- C#
- VR
EthioGig
02Freelancer marketplace with identity checks, liveness detection, recommendations and disputes.
- Django
- React
- OpenCV
Instructor Evaluation
03Final-year project at HiLCoE: structured feedback and exportable reports for faculty.
Blood Donation Manager
04Donor screening, blood stock by type and hospital requests in one system.
- Django
- Bootstrap
Education
2019 – 2024
BSc, Computer Science
HiLCoE School of Computer Science & Technology
Addis Ababa
Languages
- Amharic — native
- English
Skills
Languages
- Python
- JavaScript
- C#
- Java
Web
- Django
- React
- Tailwind CSS
- Bootstrap
- WordPress
Data & tools
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Docker
- Git
- SEO
Recognition
- 1st prize — AR/VR Africa Hackathon 2022Ethiopia
- AR/VR Africa Bootcamp 2023Completed
- Programming in PythonMeta · 2024
- Back-End & Front-End DevelopmentMeta · 2022–2023
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Software Engineer · Data Analytics & AI
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