Hi, my name is
Yelayou Endale
Full Stack Software Engineer
Full-stack engineer with 15+ years across development, product ownership, and business/systems analysis. I scope and deliver integrations against real business systems, build production APIs and data pipelines, and ship LLM agents and AI product features into live applications.
01. About Me
The story so far
Full-stack engineer with 15+ years across development, product ownership, and business/systems analysis, owning ambiguous, customer-facing technical work end-to-end. I scope and deliver integrations against real business systems (ERP, POS, reporting), build production APIs and data pipelines, and turn customer requirements directly into shipped features.
Based in the Greater Toronto Area, I bring a unique blend of technical depth and product thinking to every project. My background spans full-stack development, Agile product ownership, systems analysis, and cybersecurity.
Most recently a Software Engineer at Corpay, shipping backend and UI changes on a production payments platform. Alongside that, I've been integrating LLM agents and AI product features into live applications — most recently Pronto, an AI-powered ride and delivery platform for the GTA.
02. Experience
Where I've worked
Software Engineer
Internship- ▹Merged ~40 commits into Corpay's Cross Border Web platform as one of 6 engineers in an Agile squad, shipping backend and UI changes that resolved customer-reported issues in a production enterprise payments product
- ▹Shipped 4 modular front-end components and a client-facing dashboard, integrating an external data-visualization library to expose financial metrics to enterprise clients; queried and validated production data with SQL and RESTful APIs
- ▹Drove root-cause investigations with senior engineers, QA, and customer-facing teams, closing the loop between customer feedback and shipped fixes
Professional Development & Independent Software Engineering
Independent- ▹Built Pronto (github.com/yelayou/pronto), an AI-powered, prompt-based ride and delivery platform for the GTA, integrating a Claude agent via the Vercel AI SDK for end-to-end booking conversations, a Twilio webhook with signature validation, and a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline across preview, staging, and production
- ▹Designed and shipped AI tooling for real users — job-search automation and dispatch/workflow applications — with Python, React, Next.js, and LLM APIs, applying agentic patterns, tool-calling, and prompt versioning
- ▹Completed the Full Stack .NET Cloud Developer program (Humber College) and the AI Product Management program (Co.Lab), delivering cloud-hosted applications end-to-end
Senior Systems Analyst → Product Manager
Full-time- ▹Hired as Senior Systems Analyst to own requirements discovery and reporting across manufacturing, sales, and business platforms, integrating 4 systems serving 150 factory users; promoted to Product Manager after 8 months
- ▹As Product Manager, led an offshore development team and owned digital product initiatives end-to-end amid shifting, loosely defined requirements — stakeholder discovery through release — in an Agile environment
- ▹Designed Power BI dashboards on production data across manufacturing and business systems, cutting manual reporting effort and giving leadership near real-time KPI visibility that drove roadmap decisions
Early Career
Mar 2018 – Oct 2020
IT Consultant
Independent Consultant
Dubai, UAE
Jun 2012 – Feb 2018
IT Specialist
Jumeirah Group
Dubai, UAE
2010 – 2011
Systems Development Expert
GIZ Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2007 – 2009
Full Stack Developer
Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
03. Projects
Things I've Built
Pronto
AI-powered, prompt-based ride and delivery platform for the GTA. Integrates a Claude agent via the Vercel AI SDK for end-to-end booking conversations, a Twilio webhook with signature validation, and a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline across preview, staging, and production.
04. Skills
What I work with
Languages
Integrations & Systems
Web & Frameworks
AI & Automation
Cloud & DevOps
Data & Delivery
05. Education & Certs
Credentials
Education
Sep 2023 – Feb 2024
Humber College
Full Stack .NET Cloud Developer Certificate
- ▹C#, .NET, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, Angular
- ▹RESTful APIs, Entity Framework, SQL
- ▹Microsoft Azure, CI/CD, Git/GitHub, TDD
2004 – 2007
HiLCoE
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
- ▹Design Patterns
- ▹C++
- ▹Systems & Algorithms
Certifications
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Co.Lab AI Product Management Certificate
Co.Lab · 2025
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Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
Lighthouse Labs / ISC2 · 2024
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Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Microsoft · 2023
- ✦
Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)
Scrum Alliance · 2023
- ✦
Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM®)
Scrum Alliance · 2023
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Oracle Certified Java Associate
Oracle · 2019
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MCSA: Windows Server 2012
Microsoft
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Work-Integrated Learner
Riipen · 2025