Yinebeb Tariku
Backend Engineer · Distributed Systems · DevOps
I’m a backend engineer who builds microservices, APIs, AI agents, data pipelines, and event-driven systems. I keep services portable so they can be deployed on whichever runtime a team already uses, and I’m comfortable taking them all the way to production on Kubernetes, Nomad, or Docker Swarm, with Vault for secret management and Consul for service discovery.
I’m currently building a demand–supply marketplace (payment webhooks with idempotent async settlement, Postgres domain model, and WebRTC live sessions between the two sides of the market). I am also working on a community-GPU inference control plane (OpenAI-compatible gateway, WebSocket orchestration to heterogeneous nodes, stream metering, sticky routing, and reliability-weighted pick).
Alongside that I freelance as a Top Rated Plus engineer on Upwork. Recent shipped work includes the MCP Server Hub (MCP server proxy, registry, and execution on Nomad or Kubernetes) and a Temporal-orchestrated coding pipeline with multi-agent LLM execution and consensus review.
Outside of work I ship open source on GitHub and write about backend engineering on this blog. I hold an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from AASTU, where my thesis focused on web application security.
What I work on
API and service development, event-driven systems with NATS or Redis Streams, PostgreSQL and Redis schema and query design, payment and webhook pipelines, WebSockets/SSE and WebRTC sessions, OAuth and multi-tenant authentication, container and orchestration setup, and CI/CD. I also do code review and architecture work on existing codebases.
What clients say
“Identified three release-blocking issues that two separate AI reviews had missed… Delivered a clear, well-organized report with severity tiers, a reproduction test, and a thorough analysis of scoring edge cases. Communication was excellent throughout. Would hire again without hesitation.”
Go library code review, Upwork client, 2026
“Yinebeb is an outstanding Go engineer who brought both technical depth and clear thinking to our project… He’s fluent across the modern backend stack (microservices, gRPC, Kafka, Kubernetes) and writes code that’s built to last in production. I’d hire him again without hesitation.”
MCP Server Hub client, Upwork