Engida Lishan. I build full-stack products, including AI features that survive production.
I'm looking for a senior full-stack or AI engineering role, remote or in Addis Ababa.
Since 2019 across fintech, commerce, and AI products. I work on the state that decides whether a product feels reliable: failed requests, bad model output, and the edge cases in between.
Selected work
- 2024-2026
Platform
Internal platform for releasing and evaluating browser-based agent environments.
FastAPI / React / PostgreSQL / GCP Cloud Build / Cloud Run / LLM-as-judge
- 2024
Client
Delivery booking site and rider onboarding for a delivery company in Australia.
Next.js / React / MUI / S3 uploads
- 2023-2024
Client
B2B commerce front end for 500+ retailers and merchants, built with Next.js 14 and TypeScript.
Next.js 14 / TypeScript / Redux / TailwindCSS / AWS
- 2021-2022
Client
Web music streaming experience and subscription management for an Ethiopian streaming service.
Web front end / REST APIs / Subscription flows
- 2022-2023
Client
Dispatch, rider, and driver tools for a taxi platform.
React / MUI data grids / Docker / REST APIs
Note: Product page. The admin dashboard is internal.
- 2024
Client
Central PlazaLive: Central Plaza (opens in a new tab)Marketing site for a mixed-use property in Addis Ababa.
React / MUI / Sanity / GSAP
- 2025
Client
NibMeeting and live-report tools for an insurance team.
React / Chakra / Recharts
Note: No public link.
- 2025
Client
Aemro MotorsSpare-parts and workshop admin for a motor dealer.
React / Chakra / CKEditor
Note: No public link.
- 2026
Independent
Serpentine ArcadeLive: Serpentine Arcade (opens in a new tab)Source: Serpentine Arcade (opens in a new tab)Eight retro games in an offline-first PWA built for TV remotes and gamepads.
React / TypeScript / Vite / Supabase
- 2026
Independent
Semantic search over Supabase docs with pgvector and a local embedder. No API keys.
Next.js / TypeScript / pgvector / HNSW
- 2026
Independent
A BTC prediction-market engine and terminal dashboard, from feature pipeline to execution simulator.
Python / LightGBM / FastAPI / React / WebSockets
Note: Private, in progress.
Experience
Full-Stack Developer and AI Engineer, Turing
Agent evaluation platform for AI labs. Release and deployment flows, cloned SaaS environments, task assertions, LLM-as-judge scoring, and client variants for NVIDIA, Amazon, Salesforce, and Microsoft.
One control plane for releasing and grading agent environments, from GitHub to Cloud Run.
Nov 2024 to Sep 2026RemoteSenior Front-End Developer, Kifiya (opens in a new tab)
B2B commerce for 500+ merchants with Next.js 14, TypeScript, Redux, and Tailwind.
30% faster loads, 25% higher adoption, and releases 50% faster.
Aug 2023 to Nov 2024Addis AbabaSoftware Developer, Kepler Lab
AI sound processing app with Next.js, React, OpenAI APIs, and AWS Lambda.
Render time fell 40%.
Jan 2023 to Dec 2023Remote, South KoreaFront-End Developer, 2F Capital (opens in a new tab)
Taxi platform with 100,000+ users, plus Sewasew music streaming.
50,000+ transactions processed through the app.
Mar 2021 to Sep 2022Addis AbabaFull-Stack Developer, UpScale
School management app and internal dashboards, plus the Adama FC admin dashboard and landing page.
Student engagement rose 30%, and the Adama FC pages lifted fan engagement 40%.
Mar 2019 to Jan 2021Addis Ababa
About
I started with school dashboards. Then a commerce platform for 500+ merchants, a taxi app with 100,000+ users, and two years of AI platforms. Most of my work comes down to state: what happens when a request fails, a model is wrong, or a publish lands at the wrong moment.
More about how I work