Habesha in Tech

In this episode of Habesha in Tech, host Tef Kassa sits down with Getnet Aseffa, the Founder and CEO of iCog Labs. Getnet, a computer science and engineering graduate from Ethiopian Defense University, shares his personal tech journey, discussing how he got started in the industry and the challenges he faced along the way.

Getnet began his career as a software engineer, working for a variety of companies before starting his own bus...

In this episode of our podcast, we are excited to welcome three experts from Salesforce to discuss the different roles and responsibilities within the company. In addition to answering our host's questions, these experts will also be taking live audio questions from our audience.

First, we have Alem Abraha, Lead Systems Engineer at Salesforce. Alem will provide an in-depth look at the role of a lead systems engineer and the skills ...

In this episode of our podcast, we are excited to welcome three experts from Salesforce to discuss the different roles and responsibilities within the company. In addition to answering our host's questions, these experts will also be taking live audio questions from our audience.

First, we have Alem Abraha, Lead Systems Engineer at Salesforce. Alem will provide an in-depth look at the role of a lead systems engineer and the skills ...

At the end of 2021, The Ethiopian government called 1 Million Ethiopians to come home for Ethiopian Christmas and support the Economy, show the world that Ethiopia is still a stable country and change western media's negative portrayal of Ethiopia. In our session we discussed techie's experience. 

The session was moderated by Tef (Habesha in Tech host). The panelists were Professor Solomon Negash, Fiseha Desta, Rahel Boon-Deje...

The demand for tech professionals is growing. Tech jobs are getting very competitive. Companies are hiring aggressively. Amazon is aiming at hiring 30K new employees every year. Our guest for March 19 session was Melon Y. and she shared us all things we need to know Before Applying at AWS. Teferi, the host, started the session by asking Melon about her brief background. Melon was born in Ethiopia and grow up in New York after her f...

Our guest is Dagnachew Birru (PhD) who is currently the Global Head of R&D at Quantiphi. Dr. Dagnachew has many years of experience as an idea-driven technology researcher, developer, and leader in systems employing Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning and smart algorithms, resulting in 50+ issued patents.

He was born and raised in Northern Ethiopia. Dr. Birru grew up in a very difficult time where there were no role models...

Audience Questions

It was a great honor to have a conversation with Mekonnen Kassa on Habesha in Tech club. We spent close to 3 hours talking about his personal &  professional journey. It was an eye opening session where we learnt how  he was able share us his personal story starting from his life in  Gondar, Ethiopia.

Mekonnen left Ethiopia during the Socialist Derg military was leading  the country. He wa...

It was a great honor to have a conversation with Mekonnen Kassa on Habesha in Tech club. We spent close to 3 hours talking about his personal & professional journey. It was an eye opening session where we learnt how he was able share us his personal story starting from his life in Gondar, Ethiopia.

Mekonnen left Ethiopia during the Socialist Derg military was leading the country. He was young & ambitious so he and his frien...

My guest on Habesha in Tech was Myriam Said, who is currently Digital Advisor at the Office of the Prime Minister of Ethiopia coordinating efforts in transitioning Ethiopia to a Digital Economy. Previously she was the Director of the National Digital Transformation Program at the Ministry of Innovation and Technology where she led the development of “Digital Ethiopia 2025”; an Inclusive National Digital Transformation Strategy.

Myr...

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As the global market moves into more tech-oriented businesses, 𝙀𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙤𝙥𝙞𝙖𝙣𝙨 & 𝙀𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 are joining the...

Dawit Lessanu was born in Addis Ababa but raised in the United States Dawit Lessanu is an accomplished senior technology leader with over 26 years experience in Information Technology. Dawit has worked across diverse industries as a big 4 consultant, Media, Music, Publishing, Finance and Retail Consumer Goods. He has degrees in Mechanical Engineering, Africana Studies and an MBA in IT Management. Dawit is also an accomplished artis...

Our guest is Abeba Birhane (PhD), a cognitive science PhD researcher at the Complex Software Lab in the school of computer science at University College Dublin, Ireland. She hails from the beautiful city of Bahir Dar, Ethiopia. She was a brilliant student. You may not guess how she earned her first salary, by being a DJ. She is now living in Ireland. Abeba completed her PhD in Cognitive Science from Complex Software Lab in the scho...

In this session we discussed about Blockchain & its impact in the Cyber Security space more specifically IoT Security. Our panelist are experts in their field and they shared us their point of views in this regard. I would like to thank Jay Jemal for bringing his colleagues to share their knowledge in the blockchain space. I also would like to thank Wondimu Zegeye & Hailu Kassa for willing to join our session. Please find the below...

On Saturday November 6, 2021, I had the opportunity to chat with Alem Abreha, who is a Systems Engineer, with more than 10 years of experience in Infrastructure, Service Reliability Engineering, Tooling/Automation and DevOps. He started his career as a Systems Administrator in Unix and Linux operating systems while he was in College (Mekelle University). He is now a Lead Systems Engineer at Mulesoft (a Salesforce Company). Alem wal...

I had the opportunity to chat with Goitom Seyoum, Staff Software Engineer at Google, on Clubhouse to discuss his Tech journey. Goitom was very honest to share us his journey from where everything started. He is the one of first Ethiopians to attend at Maharishi International University. While at the university he used to apply for jobs but he felt like he could apply to even more companies if he could find help. So he decided to bu...

I had the opportunity to chat with Goitom Seyoum, Staff Software Engineer at Google, on Clubhouse to discuss his Tech journey. Goitom was very honest to share us his journey from where everything started. He is the one of first Ethiopians to attend at Maharishi International University. While at the university he used to apply for jobs but he felt like he could apply to even more companies if he could find help. So he decided to bu...

I had the opportunity to chat with Goitom Seyoum, Staff Software Engineer at Google, on Clubhouse to discuss his Tech journey. Goitom was very honest to share us his journey from where everything started. He is the one of first Ethiopians to attend at Maharishi International University. While at the university he used to apply for jobs but he felt like he could apply to even more companies if he could find help. So he decided to bu...