Michael Berhane
Co-Founder, CEO at POCIT
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Berhane is a founder-CEO and former software engineer with 11 years of experience building technology-driven communities and products from London. As Co-Founder and CEO of POCIT for over a decade, he has grown a trusted media and talent platform serving 100,000+ technologists and partnering with brands like Netflix, GitHub, and Amazon to improve how companies find and engage diverse technical talent. He blends hands-on engineering roots (Node.js, React, Rails) and an MSc in Computer Science with product and community-led growth, having been the first engineering hire at a VC-backed startup early in his career. Beyond POCIT he scouts for a $50M Black founder-focused fund and co-hosts Techish, a globally recognized podcast with ~2M downloads, showcasing his ear for culture and founder narratives. Michael’s background shows a rare combination of technical credibility, editorial and community craftsmanship, and venture-facing deal flow that helps underrepresented founders and technologists access opportunity.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
2.1, Business with Law, 2.1, Business with Law at Kingston UniversityUniversity College London
English
Github Skills (4)
google-maps1
google1
google-maps-api1
api1
Github contributions (2)
MichaelBerhane/ElloClone
Sep 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:55 commits in 29 days
urbanmassage/gmaps-signature
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:1 comment in 1 day
apigoogle-maps-apigooglesignsmaps-api
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