Abenezer Gelaw is a Distributed Systems Engineer with a decade of experience designing and operating large-scale backend systems, currently advancing platform reliability at Netflix. He holds a rare triple-major background in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Duke, blending hardware-aware thinking with software craftsmanship. Progressing rapidly through senior engineering roles at Netflix after internships at Google and Coinbase, he focuses on resilient distributed architectures and production-grade experimentation. Based in New York, he also explores open source through side projects under the moniker "aben (benbenalin)," signaling a curiosity-driven approach to tooling and community contribution. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who bridges academic breadth with hands-on execution in high-velocity environments.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Bachelor of Engineering - BE at Duke University
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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