Summary
Fikru Feleke is a seasoned network engineer with 15 years in telecommunications and eight years of focused professional experience designing, optimizing, and automating mobile and core network infrastructures for Ethiopia’s leading operator. He combines an MSc in Telecommunications (3.82 GPA) and a BSc in Electrical Engineering with strong quantitative skills in mathematics, statistics, and computing, enabling him to propose energy-optimization algorithms for cloud environments that outperform prior approaches. At Ethio Telecom he has led network planning, multi-vendor device integration (Cisco, Huawei, Ericsson, ZTE), QoS tuning, and proactive traffic forecasting systems that inform resource allocation. A pragmatic automation advocate, he builds Python tooling (netmiko/paramiko, Django integration) to streamline IP/VLAN management, KPI extraction, and topology visualization, reducing manual effort and accelerating decision-making. Comfortable across wireless (2G–4G), IP networks, SDN concepts and ML applications, he consistently bridges theory and deployment to deliver measurable operational improvements. Based in Ethiopia, he pairs deep domain expertise with hands-on software development to turn complex telecom data into actionable systems.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical Engineering, 2.8, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Electrical Engineering, 2.8 at Bahirdar
Master of Science - MSc, Telecommunications Engineering, 3.82, Master of Science - MSc, Telecommunications Engineering, 3.82 at Addis Ababa Universty Institite of Technology
English, Amharic