Hi, I'm Berhane 👋

Education

KAIST, Electrical Engineering X Computer Science

Aug 2018 - Feb 2023

Work Experience

• Software Developer, Openformat

October 2023 - Present

Developing and maintaining a referral and influencer marketing software, Incento, available on Cafe24 Appstore for eCommerce websites.

◦ Backend Development:

• • • Integrated Cafe24 APIs for shop registration, authentication, and subscription management. Managed end-to-end development, including API integration, service activation workflows, and troubleshooting, using Django and Django REST Framework.

    • Designed and implemented the product’s analytics domain, including defining key metrics and developing the logging infrastructure. Built and optimized scheduled statistical data aggregation jobs with Celery to populate read-optimized data models for faster analytics serving, resulting in data processing efficiency. Implemented asynchronous data serving using asyncio and asyncpg reducing query latency by over 60%.

◦ Frontend Development:

• • • Built a responsive dashboard interface using Next.js 13, enabling shop owners to visualize analytics and set up referral and influencer marketing campaigns. The dashboard replaced the existing manual process of sending Excel reports, improving the company’s operational efficiency.

    • Maintain, continuously refactor, and standardize the Incento Widget. Refactored the Widget codebase to follow Vercel best practices, saving 20% in Vercel costs.

    • Actively contribute to the development and updates of a script that interacts with the Cafe24 SDK and backend to ensure the seamless delivery of the Incento Widget, which gets millions of requests per month.

    • Refactor and standardize (set rules) to existing code base following standard practices, Set up a proper local and staging development environment for a better developer experience.

• Research Intern, Data Science Group @ Institute of Basic Sciences

  • ML research, Data Analysis, Data Visualization

July 2021 - January 2022

• Individual Research Student, Robotics and Computer Vision Lab

  • Gesture recognition

Mar 2021 - June 2021

• Teaching Assistant , AddisCoder

  • Data structure and Algorithms

July 2019 - Aug 2019

• Senior Staff Reporter, The KAIST Herald

  • Writing and editing articles for the official English newspaper of KAIST. My pieces can be found here.

Mar 2019 - December 2022

Research

Using Web Data to Reveal 22-Year History of Sneaker Designs (The Web Conference 2022 (WWW), 2022. doi:10.1145/3485447.3512017)

S.Park, H. Song, S. Han,B. Weldegebriel, L. Manovich, E. Arielli and M. Cha. Acceptance rate for full paper = 17.7%

Awards

• Best Paper Candidate at The Web Conference (WWW) 2022 - Our paper was ranked among the top 3.41% of the accepted papers 

• AI x ART - 3rd place - Using the results from our paper, I designed an artwork titled The Sneakers Universe and won 3rd place in a competition held by the National Science Museum, Korea.