Software engineer / Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

KidanekalMelkam Alem

Product, frontend, backend, desktop, data, and delivery.

Current
Software Developer at Opian Technologies
Core stack
C# / JavaScript / Python / Go
Work
Products / Platforms / Systems

Flagship projects

Three different constraints.

All projects
Opian Technologies.NET / ASP.NET Core / React

Link — Multi-Facility EMR

Clinical software becomes difficult to adapt when every workflow is hard-coded into one application, even though every tool operates on the same patient visit.

A modular clinical operations platform where vitals, consultation, lab, imaging, pharmacy, and other tools plug into one shared patient-visit context.

Case study
Transaction systemsGo / React / TypeScript

SafeDeal Hybrid Escrow

Online deals need a trusted way to hold and release Ethiopian Birr without asking users to treat cryptocurrency as the payment rail.

A hybrid escrow platform for secure Ethiopian transactions, combining Chapa payments with blockchain-anchored records for transparent, auditable deal states.

Case study
Information retrievalPython / NLP / Information Retrieval

Geez Document Retrieval System

Ge'ez texts are difficult to search because general-purpose retrieval tools do not account for the language's script and morphology.

Dedicated Information Retrieval system for Ge'ez texts, featuring a custom stemmer and evaluated using precision, recall, and F1-score.

Case study

Security practice

Responsible vulnerability disclosure

Responsible disclosure of a critical vulnerability in a medical lab system.

  • Vulnerability identification
  • Ethical disclosure
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Kidanekal Melkam Alem
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

About

Software Developer at Opian Technologies.

BSc in Computer Science graduate from HiLCoE School of Computer Science and Technology, GPA 3.9/4.0, Great Distinction. Current work spans modular clinical software, transaction systems, desktop tools, ERP foundations, and applied information retrieval.

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Contact

akidanekal@gmail.com

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