Meron Ogbai
Founding Engineer at Jinso Labs
Athens Metropolitan Area Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolMeron Ogbai is a Founding Engineer with 8 years of experience building full-stack, user-focused products that scale to millions of users, specializing in TypeScript, Node, React, SQL and AWS. He moved from Upwork freelancing to senior roles at startups, driving measurable growth—examples include doubling peak traffic with a reverse image search feature and tripling conversion and paid user metrics through UX and multi-LLM comparison work. Meron combines rapid product delivery with robust engineering practices, setting up CI/CD, observability, and data-loader patterns that cut developer friction and surface reliability issues early. He’s contributed to the Open Food Network open-source project, improving order management UX and backend validation, and has a track record of fixing thorny production problems like chronic TCP resets and slow database queries. Based in Athens, he pairs a pragmatic, user-first mindset with a knack for automation and developer experience improvements that accelerate teams.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Certificate, Full-Stack Development Program, Software Engineering Certificate, Full-Stack Development Program at Microverse
English, Tigrinya, Arabic
Stackoverflow
139reputation
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Github Skills (22)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
rails10
ruby10
spree10
spreed10
rspec9
html7
async-await6
filter6
queue6
nodejs6
rest6
throttling6
axios6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openfoodfoundation/openfoodnetwork
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Connect suppliers, distributors and consumers to trade local produce.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 13 commits, 3 PRs in 12 days
Contributions summary:Meron focused on improving the user interface and backend logic within the Open Food Network repository. Their work involved modifying JavaScript files for order management, specifically incorporating custom modals for user confirmations and alerts, enhancing the admin interface. They also addressed backend functionality by updating the payment method controller and implementing validation logic, ensuring data integrity and improving the user experience. Furthermore, the user refactored and reorganized code related to alerts and confirmations, and updated related testing.
farmersdistributorsrailsnonprofitfood
meronokbay/weather-app
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Simple weather forecast website
Contributions:42 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 10 days
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