# About me

> Who Amir Aman is: a software engineer in Ethiopia and the founder of Driftwatch, building web platforms, Android apps, AI tooling and backends.

Canonical: https://www.asgerami.com/about/

Updated: 2026-10-25

I'm Amir Aman, a software engineer based in Ethiopia and the founder of
[Driftwatch](https://driftwatch.et/), a breaking-change radar for the third-party
APIs a team depends on. Alongside it I work independently, building web platforms,
Android apps and backends for clients and for my own products.

## What I build

- **Web platforms** in TypeScript with Next.js and React, from event and ticketing
  systems to real-time collaborative editors.
- **Android apps** with React Native and Expo that work offline and keep data on
  the phone, such as Hours & Pay and Quadrille.
- **Backends and infrastructure** in Node.js, Python (FastAPI) and Go, with
  PostgreSQL as the source of truth and often as the queue.
- **AI and developer tooling**, including [Wrangl](/projects/wrangl/), which turns
  any REST API into an MCP server, and the Driftwatch MCP feed.
- **Experiments** that run where you would not expect them to: creatures that
  evolve to walk in a browser tab ([Ambulo](/projects/ambulo/)), a chess engine
  trained from scratch ([Nimzo](/projects/nimzo/)) and a bytecode VM in Rust
  ([cellvm](https://github.com/asgerami/cellvm)).

## How I work

I like hard problems that end up in someone's hands. I care about the parts that
make software trustworthy: idempotency, honest numbers, offline-first apps, and
pages that load fast on slow connections. I would rather ship a small thing that is
correct than a large thing that only looks finished, and I write up what was hard
so the next person, often me, does not have to rediscover it.

## Background

I studied software engineering at Adama Science and Technology University. Before
working independently I was a full-stack developer at iConnect, where I built an
event management platform with Chapa payments, and a software engineering intern
on the Adama Smart City project, building a property market API. Earlier, I
mentored Ethiopia's FIRST Global robotics team, designing and programming
competition robots. The full timeline is on the [experience page](/experience).

## Elsewhere

- [Projects](/projects): everything I have shipped, filterable by kind
- [Writing](/blog): essays on software, the AI industry and Ethiopia's infrastructure
- [GitHub](https://github.com/asgerami), [X](https://x.com/asgerami),
  [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/amiramaan/) and
  [Telegram](https://t.me/asgerami)

If you want to work together or just talk about any of this, the
[contact page](/contact) has the details.