Full-stack product engineer
Ethiopia · available for thoughtful buildsI turn hard workflows into useful web products—from the first interaction to a live, maintainable release.
What I can own
Selected work
Open the live site, inspect the source, or read the case study to see how the product was scoped, built, tested, and prepared for handoff.
Flagship product
A Grade 12 study platform that connects structured notes, practice questions, timed exams, progress analytics, and academic AI support.
My contribution: Product architecture, web experience, API workflows, auth, learning logic, QA documentation
Commerce platform
A premium Ethiopian marketplace for listings, verified sellers, trust scores, AI-assisted merchandising, payments, messaging, and live selling.
My contribution: Full product build across frontend and backend; marketplace, auth, payments, real-time, and admin surfaces
Health and wellbeing
An Ethiopia-rooted wellness product with a practical content library, habits and progress, body-confidence guidance, bilingual navigation, and bounded AI support.
My contribution: Product experience, content model, auth/session boundary, personalized flows, and deployment documentation
Travel product
A live travel discovery experience for Ethiopia with destinations, stays, experiences, service journeys, trip planning, and an AI assistant marked as in development.
My contribution: Product and web experience; source repository was not provided in the connected GitHub account
Personal portfolio
A full-stack portfolio that presents verified product case studies alongside a custom admin workspace for content, appointments, mentorship records, AI-assisted opportunity discovery, and audit activity.
My contribution: Product design and end-to-end implementation of the public portfolio, case-study system, admin dashboard, and deployment workflows
More public code and experiments live on GitHub.
What I can own
I do not start with a technology shopping list. I start with the user, the risk, and the smallest slice that can teach us something.
Tools, not trophies
I choose technology for the job in front of us: fast feedback while we learn, clear boundaries when the product grows, and a handoff another engineer can actually use.
The working stack
Built to moveProduct work
Lane 01When the problem calls for it
Lane 02Evidence I leave behind
Testing evidence
Deborah links the release-readiness report, QA plan, test counts, build checks, and the remaining staging/device gaps. TenaSew links its architecture and deployment notes.
Technical writing
Architecture notes, deployment runbooks, route maps, security boundaries, and explicit launch gaps are part of the deliverable—not an afterthought.
Direct source
The flagship learning product, marketplace frontend/backend, and wellness product are linked directly from their case studies so the implementation can be inspected.
About
I’m Bereda Wako, a full-stack product engineer based in Ethiopia. I work across the data model, API, interface, integrations, deployment, and the documentation that lets a team keep moving.
My work spans Deborah’s learning loop, Negus Gebeya’s buyer/seller flow, TenaSew’s bounded wellness experience, EthioVista’s travel discovery surface, and this portfolio platform itself. I like the details that make a workflow feel dependable: useful errors, explicit states, server-side rules, and honest release notes.
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completed works in the portfolio
E2E
from schema to interface
QA
evidence linked per case study
Experience
The products are only part of the story. Teaching, marketing, formal study, and startup leadership shaped how I understand people, systems, and the work required to make an idea useful.
Editorial illustrationTeaching · Digital skills
Ethio Computer School
Taught web development through practical, project-led learning at a school that describes itself as Ethiopia’s leading digital skills school. The course focuses on building real projects rather than only studying theory.
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Editorial illustrationHospitality · Marketing
Gezahegn and Elfinesh Hotel & Resort
Worked in marketing for one of Ethiopia’s largest hotel and resort operations, building experience in positioning a hospitality brand, communicating value, and connecting an organization with its audience.
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Editorial illustrationEducation · Computer science
Hawassa University
Earned a Computer Science degree from Hawassa University, one of Ethiopia’s leading universities, building the technical foundation behind my product, systems, and software engineering work.
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Editorial illustrationLeadership · Ethiopia-rooted startups
EthioVista · Deborah School · TenaSew · Negus Gebeya
Lead and build Ethiopia-rooted startups across travel, education, wellness, and commerce. Each product starts with a local problem, a clear user workflow, and a practical path from idea to live experience.
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Outside product work, I make time for study, music, and reading — practices that sharpen attention, patience, and imagination.
Study · Faith · DisciplineGold medalist in Diploma Practical Theology across all of Ethiopia from Holistic Bible College.
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Vocal · Piano · GuitarI make space for music through vocal performance, piano, and guitar — a creative counterweight to technical work.
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Curiosity · Reflection · GrowthReading keeps the questions open: a steady habit for learning, reflection, and seeing problems from a wider angle.
Keep exploringBooks
A growing shelf of books and reading material that informs how I think, build, and keep learning.
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By Martin Fowler
By David Thomas and Andrew Hunt
Media
Walkthroughs, demonstrations, and written notes about useful products, systems, and teams.
Appointment
Choose a conversation purpose, find an available time, and bring a real product question to the table.
Book a conversationNext step
Share the product idea, the people it is for, and the workflow that is currently hard. I’ll help turn that into a discovery conversation, a scoped MVP, and a practical proposal.
