Habesha in Tech

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 build his own automated program that search(crawl) websites for keywords he set up (such as job title, skills ...). After he completed the development, he was able to apply to more companies than his fellow classmates and he was getting email & phone call responses from recruiters. When his friends saw the success of his program, they wanted to use it and he made the program accessible to them. 

Goitom is A father, an entrepreneur, problem solver, ambitious, strategy thinker, engineer and people leader... Built more than 5 startups. Currently working at Google for the last 8 years as a tech lead manager at Google Play.

I would like to thank Goitom for his time and willing to share us his tech journey. He is also an amazing story teller. I want to also thank our audiences who were listening to us and those who participated in the Q&A. 

Please listen to our full conversation to get more perspective and discover his journey. 

Cheers,

Tef Kassa

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Last week I had the opportunity to chat with Kal Kassa. Kal shared us his experience before he entered into the crypto world. He has been in the crypto world for a while and he is a strong advocate for the adoption of Bitcoin in a global scale. He invested in making the Bitcoin buz get into the ordinary Ethiopian who may not have access to the documents, internet and the language. He leading the effort to write an eBook so that Ethiopians can read in their own language like Amharic, Afan Oromo & others. He is also working on hosting BITCOIN AFRICA CONFERENCE 2022 that would be the first of it's kind and will be huge influence on the adoption of Bitcoin in Ethiopia. His website - Bitcoinbirr is an educational site for everything Bitcoin and Birr. In addition, there is also a resource for our Eritreans -BitcoinNakfa. Please follow their work and see if their advocacy can bring the change to the bitcoin space in Ethiopia & Eritrea. 

I would like to thank Kal for joining us to share his story and stayed longer to answer our audience's questions. Thanks everyone for showing up and joined us live. 

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Our guest on Habesha in Tech club was Eyosias Y. Imana (PhD) who is currently working as Staff Modem Systems Engineer at Qualicom. He is born and raised in Ethiopia. He went to Bahir Dar University to study Electrical Engineering. He also attended his M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology which focused on signal processing and wireless communications. His aspiration to learn and specialize in wireless communications led him to go for his PhD at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University which focused on development and implementation of flexible digital radio technologies.

He holds patents for practical innovations he made. We discussed about wireless communication technologies that impacted what we utilize today such as 2G, 3G, 5G and other technologies. He has expertise on Wireless systems, RF systems, communication theory, DSP implementations, RF-based sensors including ultra-short-range radars. 

I would like to thank Eyosias for his willingness to join me on this chat and sharing us his journey. I also would like to thank the audience who came to listen our conversation and came to stage to ask their questions. Special thanks to Eyosias family & friends who were there to listen and support Eyosias.

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On October 2nd, I had an opportunity to chat with Rahel Boon-Dejene, the CEO of R&D Group. She is a person who is proud of her humble beginning and she shared us how she got into Tech. Her path to where she is now isn't an easy one but she accomplished it through persistence and pushing the limits of her ability and breaking barriers. She wrote 68 letters to multiple companies company that rejected her. Later she became Partner with ORTECH and she helped set up a state of the art analysis center in Ethiopia. That led to the establishment of R&D Group.

Please listen to our conversation to learn her story. 

On our previous Clubhouse session we had a wonderful career talk on Data Science and Analytics career paths. The panelist (Mahlet Konjit-Solomon, Zeradam Fantaye, Bereket Kindo, Etana Disasa & Abel Gebresilassie) are currently working in the Data Science and Analytics fields. They provided their guidance and tips on how to be successful in entering in this career paths.

This Episode is Part 1 of the sessions and in this episode the panelist answered questions about What is Data?, What is common in Data Science & Analytics?, What is Data Science? 

Please listen to Part 2 - Data Analytics & Part 3 - Q/A to get the full picture. 

I had the pleasure of chatting with Yodit Stanton the Founder & CEO of OpenSensors. Yodit has shared us her tech journey and what paths she took to become where she is now. She believes that programming is an art and she loves learning new skills and upgrading herself. She is a Software and Data engineer working to helping people understand their physical space. OpenSensors aggregates data from a variety of sensors for the next generation of smart Building Management Systems.

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