# Mikael Endale Gebreyes

> Founder & Software Engineer, 19, based in Singapore. Lead Engineer at RAVN: self-healing infrastructure for robot fleets. Builds AI systems where a model proposes, fixed rules decide, and a person approves what matters. 60+ products shipped.

Goes by Mikael Endale. Open to hard problems, roles and collaborations. Email is the best way to reach out.

- Website: https://www.mikaelen.site
- Email: mikaelendale00@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/mikaelendale
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mikael-endale
- Location: Singapore (GMT+8)

## In Mikael Endale's words

"I'm 19, and I build software people can trust. Models can propose, fixed rules decide, and people approve. I've shipped 60+ products from Addis Ababa, and I'd rather ship it fast and right than talk about it."

## Experience

- RAVN, Lead Engineer (2025 - Present · part-time): Self-healing infrastructure for robot fleets. [Case study](https://www.mikaelen.site/projects/ravn)
- BlazeMail.ai, Founder & Engineer (Jun 2024 - Feb 2026): AI cold-email SaaS, built solo at 17. [Case study](https://www.mikaelen.site/projects/blazemail)
- Budera, Founding Engineer & Lead Developer (Mar 2024 - Jun 2024): AI banking assistant, verified before every operation. [Case study](https://www.mikaelen.site/projects/budera)
- LaloDev, Founder & Engineer (Aug 2023 - Mar 2024): Affordable coding education for underfunded students.

## Case studies

- [RAVN](https://www.mikaelen.site/projects/ravn): Infrastructure for physical AI. Self-healing infrastructure for robot fleets. An agent on the robot and a brain on the server detect software failures, propose fixes, and only call a robot fixed once it's actually back at work.
- [Direct Beneficiary Verification](https://www.mikaelen.site/projects/beneficiary-verification): Voice-first jobs auditing. Asks workers themselves, in Amharic, Afaan Oromo or English, whether a development programme's “good job” was real, and turns the conversation into an auditable monitoring record.
- [Budera](https://www.mikaelen.site/projects/budera): Agentic banking with a policy engine. A banking assistant that reads a customer's accounts and prepares around 30 kinds of operations, where every write passes a deterministic policy engine and a password-confirmed approval before it touches the ledger.
- [Costrym](https://www.mikaelen.site/projects/costrym): Multi-agent cost cutting for SMEs. Pulls a company's accounting data from Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho Books, sevDesk and Expensify, categorises it, and generates cost-cutting tasks that a person approves before anything is scheduled.
- [ARIA](https://www.mikaelen.site/projects/aria): Autonomous resort operations. An always-on multi-agent system for a resort that watches operations, catches problems like late room service or an at-risk guest, and acts through WhatsApp, kitchen alerts and offers, with every action streamed to staff.
- [AdmitMe-AI](https://www.mikaelen.site/projects/admitme): A council of admissions agents. A council of agents builds a student's reach, match and safety list, finds the gaps that could get them rejected, and helps with essays, all grounded in a structured profile.
- [GetCBAM](https://www.mikaelen.site/projects/getcbam): EU carbon border reporting. Turns a non-EU manufacturer's production data and utility bills into an EU CBAM embedded-emissions report, with a QR code linking to a public verification page.
- [BlazeMail.ai](https://www.mikaelen.site/projects/blazemail): Cold email with self-healing inboxes. Connects a user's own Gmail or IMAP inbox, personalises each email with an LLM, and runs multi-step campaigns under per-account sending limits, while keeping every mailbox connection healthy on its own.

## Awards and recognition

- Antler Singapore (Residency · Oct 2026): Joined Antler's Singapore residency with RAVN, self-healing infrastructure for robot fleets.
- Y Combinator (Top 10% of applicants): Budera, agentic banking behind a deterministic policy engine, ranked in the top 10% of applicants.
- AI Builder Hackathon, Addis (Aug 2026): First place. Jury award for Direct Beneficiary Verification, a voice-first jobs audit in Amharic, Afaan Oromo and English, built in under 10 hours.
- Slingshot 2026 (With RAVN): Top 250. Self-healing infrastructure for robot fleets.
- Kuriftu Resort & Spa challenge (40 teams): Finalist. ARIA, an always-on operations agent for the resort.
- BITS College Hackathon: First place. Up against university teams.
- National Hackathon: Top three. Nationwide, up against university teams.
- ALX Addis Teen Code: Winner. Advanced category.
- LaunchX / Accelerate Asia (2024 / 2025): Selected. Accepted into both programmes.
- VEX Robotics Africa: Design award. Recognised for the team's engineering design process.

## Stack

- Backend: TypeScript, Node.js, PHP, Laravel, Python, FastAPI, Rust, .NET
- Frontend: React, Next.js, Svelte, Inertia.js, Tailwind CSS
- Data: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
- Design: Figma
- Practice: LLM integration, RAG pipelines, Multi-agent orchestration, Verifier-critic patterns, Structured-output validation, Voice STT/TTS, REST APIs, Queues & background jobs, SaaS architecture, Distributed systems

## Optional

- [Full profile](https://www.mikaelen.site/llms-full.txt): every role, project and case study in full, in one file
- [Case studies](https://www.mikaelen.site/projects): each system drawn as a flow of steps