A photo of Charmake Qalinle with a background of tree.

I’m Charmake Qalinle (by convention I use my father’s name as last name), an independent visual designer and web developer based in Djibouti.

About me

I was born at the dawn of the WWW and went to Tour Ousbo Primary School in Djibouti. After my high school graduation in 2013, I spent eighteen months at the university before dropping out. Subsequently, I started looking for jobs in a labor market peculiar in its kind.

In 2017 I started my first job as a store clerk but left after my first annual leave due to a toxic workplace culture. I reentered a job market with a high unemployment rate and after the outbreak of COVID-19 I decided to move to Somaliland.

In Borama, Awdal, I became a tuk-tuk driver. Owing to numerous summers I’d spent there and friendships I’d fostered around football fields and video games, I adapted quickly.

I moved back to Djibouti in 14 March 2023.

My journey in the web industry began with a friend’s suggestion to take up web development after noticing a laptop sleeve bag hanging on my room’s wall. I fortunately found the right source to learn not only the web technologies but the standards as an autodidact. Since then, I enjoy the experience.

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This site is built with Eleventy and deployed on Netlify via GitHub.

A list of design elements used in this website’s design:

If you have any further question or an issue to report, you could reach me out.