Meda Shi live game A live mobile trivia game built inside the Meda ecosystem, letting tens of thousands of players participate at the same time during a TV game show broadcast on Fana TV.
Role
Created the project and led the technical scaling work, taking it from a Meda Chat feature into a live game platform capable of handling major concurrent traffic during televised game shows.
Challenge
The product had to synchronize a live TV-hosted trivia experience with mobile app answers from a very large audience, where traffic spiked sharply during each question window.
Approach
Built the mobile game experience with React Native as part of the Meda ecosystem. Designed the real-time answer flow so players could participate from the app while the host and game state were shown on television. Scaled the backend using Google Cloud and Firebase to handle live game-show traffic and sudden concurrent connection spikes. Worked through real-time database and fan-out constraints as the product gained popularity and reached tens of thousands of players in a single show. Focused the architecture around low-latency participation, operational monitoring, and fast recovery during live broadcast windows.
Outcome
Meda Shi became a high-pressure technical proving ground for real-time mobile participation at TV scale, validating the ability to support large concurrent audiences during live Ethiopian game shows.
Stack React Native Google Cloud Firebase Real-time systems Mobile gaming Live broadcast
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Jesus Film Project Remote Android work for a global media app, helping modernize the codebase and improve offline video sharing for markets where data access is expensive or limited.
Role
Contributed remotely to the Jesus Film Project Android app, helping the team migrate toward modern Android architecture, stabilize the application, and build secure peer-to-peer video sharing.
Challenge
In many African and Asian markets, mobile data cost and access can limit video distribution, so the app needed easier ways for people to share media without depending only on internet downloads.
Approach
Helped migrate the Android project toward a more modern, maintainable architecture. Built secure peer-to-peer video sharing so people could share content directly where data access was limited or expensive. Stayed with the team to resolve bugs, improve stability, and help the Android project stand on a stronger foundation. Worked remotely with the product and engineering team across existing app constraints instead of rebuilding the application from scratch. Focused on reliability, maintainability, and making media access easier in low-connectivity contexts.
Outcome
The work improved the Android app's technical foundation and helped make video distribution easier in markets where connectivity and data cost are real barriers.
Stack Android Kotlin Modern Android architecture P2P sharing Offline media Mobile stability
YetAle A crowdsource ecommerce platform for buying and selling across multiple product categories, supported by a consumer mobile app and an operations portal.
Role
Built the consumer Android app and supporting platform pieces for a multi-category marketplace, with operational tooling for monitoring marketplace activity.
Challenge
The platform needed to support a broad set of product categories while giving operators enough visibility to monitor listings, activity, and marketplace operations.
Approach
Developed the consumer-facing Android application in Kotlin for browsing and interacting with multiple ecommerce product categories. Built a React-based operations portal for monitoring and managing platform activity. Used Google Cloud and Firebase as the core backend foundation for data, authentication, real-time updates, and operational workflows. Structured the product experience around crowdsource marketplace participation rather than a single centrally managed catalog. Kept the architecture lightweight enough for fast iteration while still supporting operational oversight.
Outcome
YetAle delivered a working multi-category ecommerce marketplace with a mobile consumer experience and an operations layer for day-to-day monitoring.
Stack Kotlin Android React Google Cloud Firebase Ecommerce
