Kebron Tadesse · Software Engineer · San Diego
I build software end to end.
This site tells that story as a film.
Six real products — hiring, skincare, commerce, pet health, language, privacy — one scene at a time. Prefer the engineering write-up? It’s under 02 Detail, top right.
KEBRONTADESSE
I build because somethingmakes me curious enoughnot to leave it alone.
Every project
started with a reason.
Curiosity.
A problem.
Something I wish existed.
Something someone needed.
01 — Hiring platform
Worthy
Worthy is a hiring platform — a web app plus a browser extension where a team tracks every candidate from application to hire, in one place. Here’s how a candidate moves through it:
Candidate pipeline
01 Applied
02 Review
03 Interview
04 Hire
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Supabase
Multi-tenant SaaS. Web app + browser extension on shared packages. Exploring integrations across major recruiting ecosystems.
Vow
Know what you put on your skin.
Vow is an iOS app that identifies a skincare product through your camera and explains what’s inside it — so you can decide whether it belongs in your routine. Four steps:
02 — AI-powered skincare · iOS
Product
Identify
Understand
Routine
It starts with a shelf full of promises — and a label most people never decode.
Point the camera. The app recognizes the product for what it actually is.
The label, decoded — what’s in it, and what that means for your skin.
Keep what belongs. Skip what doesn’t.
01 / 04
02 / 04
03 / 04
04 / 04
Quiet decisions, made with confidence.
Swift · SwiftUI · Cloudflare Workers — native iOS
03 — Shopify infrastructure
Loop
Loop is a marketing platform for Shopify stores. It listens to real order, fulfillment, and delivery events — then turns them into offers, emails, and revenue attribution, automatically.
An order was delivered.
That became an event.
That event became an opportunity.
Porch-Drop — the flagship feature
When a package is actually delivered — not on a timer — the customer gets a single-use offer for a related product. Watch one order travel the system:
2,000+
automated tests hold it together
TypeScript · React · SQL · Shopify APIs · webhooks · async workers. Duplicate events are safe. Crashed steps resume.
loopapplication.com ↗04 — Vetmate · pet health, iOS
It started with food.
A dog ate something he was allergic to.
So I built a way to check first.
Vetmate is an iOS app that scans pet food, medication, and vaccine labels — and tells you whether what’s inside is safe for your pet. The check takes seconds:
Label
Scan
Ingredients
Safety information
Open source
The part
you can inspect.
Kistanigna is my people’s language.
Most languages get dictionaries
by default. Mine didn’t.
home
the next speakers
9,924
trilingual records — exactly
Kistane Dictionary is a free trilingual dictionary — search any of the three languages, save favorites, take quizzes, and explore cultural traditions. And it was built twice:
Two independent implementations — not a port. Built so the language my people speak exists where every language should.
06 — Mezgeb · encrypted vault, Flutter
Some files shouldn’t depend on someone else’s servers.
Most apps send your photos and files to someone’s cloud.
Mezgeb refuses the cloud — everything stays encrypted on your device.
Offline first.
An encrypted photo and file vault organized by the Ethiopian calendar. The core works with no network at all.github / mezgeb ↗
One thing about me.
When I lock in,
I really lock in.
Focus
Cut the noise.
Analyze
See the field.
Execute.
Motivation fades. The work doesn’t.
The order things happened
FIRST iOS PROJECT
KISTANE
VETMATE
LOOP
VOW
WORTHY
?
still building
Still building.
Kebron Tadesse
San Diego, California