Summary
Yonas Fesehatsion is a software engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building user-focused web applications and design systems. He currently develops products at Build with Ferguson and previously strengthened the Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity by translating Figma designs into modular, high-performance React components and a patterns library that decoupled UI from core logic. His background blends software engineering with visual design—earlier roles in WordPress consulting and graphic design inform a strong sense for branding, accessibility, and production-ready assets. Yonas is adept at migrating legacy jQuery to plain JavaScript, building data-heavy React apps, and delivering maintainable front-end architectures. Comfortable working across the stack, he brings both hands-on implementation and a designer’s eye to bridge product, design, and engineering.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Journalism and Mass Communication, BA, Journalism and Mass Communication at University of Asmara
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Flatiron School
Arabic, Tigrinya, English, Amharic