THE ROOST · A NIGHTCLUB FOR BATS · EST. AFTER DARK
Michael
ship-jo · Software Engineer · DevOps @ Zemenay Tech
this is mike — michael, to be sure. welcome to the roost — Addis Ababa, after dark
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◉ REC · CAM 01Nocturnal engineer. I roost where the interesting problems are and I don’t leave until they’re solved.
an engineer of the digital fields. i play with my hands, hit walls, and break through them with my mouse.
seven years in, since 2019 — started on ERP backends in node and python, spent three years on production react, then went and took the whole path to production. now staff devops engineer and fullstack lead at Zemenay, where i set the container platform for six product teams and write the services that run on it.
four merged patches into Galio, the open-source react-native framework (3,200 stars), plus my own typescript rewrite of its component library. i can't leave anything half-owned: i want the model, the service, and the thing the user actually touches.
what do i represent? grit. i bring grit and courage to everything i touch, and a little pleasure to the people i build it with. after dark, i build in the roost.
i don’t specialize :) i devour. one head, every discipline. that’s the superpower.
Selected
Work
- 01Galio FrameworkOPEN SOURCE · REACT NATIVE2025→
- 02BGRemoveAI · WEB2025→
- 03Multi-Collab EditorREAL-TIME · DISTRIBUTED2026→
- 04Leadership AssessmentWEB APP2025→
- 05MediScanAI · CLINICAL SYSTEM2026→
- 06EV Repair NetworkMOBILE · REACT NATIVE2026→
- 07Zemenay TechFULLSTACK · REMOTE HIRING PLATFORM2026→
- 08Gmail List MailerCHROME EXTENSION · OUTREACH2026→
- 09AI Recruitment PipelineAI · RAG · HIRING2026→
- 10LeanaMOBILE · REAL-TIME SOCIAL2026→
- 11Lead Intelligence PipelineDATA · PIPELINE2026→
- 12ZenPRODUCT · WEB + MOBILE2026→
Nobody’s
dancing.
a whole room of us hanging upside down, dead certain we’re the ones standing right. that’s my kind of club — and honestly, my kind of brain. look close: nobody’s dancing. it’s bats, all the way down.
looks like goths on the floor. it’s bats, hanging upside down. real footage.