Natnael Getenew
Co-Founder at Doctus AI
Ethiopia
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Top SchoolNatnael Getenew is a self-taught AI engineer and serial founder with seven years of experience building startups and product-led engineering teams from Addis Ababa. He has repeatedly combined web, blockchain, and NLP expertise to launch ventures such as Doctus AI, Promptplot, and several NFT and DeFi projects, moving between hands-on development and executive roles (CEO/CTO/Founder). Comfortable across the full stack, he has implemented serverless backends, transformer-based NLP, Solidity smart contracts, and responsive React frontends while also leading token-incentivized search and generative-AI creative platforms. Natnael’s career shows a pattern of rapid prototyping and sector-hopping—healthtech, legaltech, social apps, and creative AI—indicating an ability to spot cross-domain product opportunities. A Y Combinator-trained founder with formal study via freeCodeCamp, Wharton Online and Yale courses, he pairs practical engineering chops with founder-level strategy and execution.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Wharton OnlineComputer Science, Computer Science at Adama science and technology universityFull Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCampunity universtyIntroduction to Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY, Introduction to Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY at Yale UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at St. Mary's universityYCombinator SUS Certified, Active Founder Track, YCombinator SUS Certified, Active Founder Track at Y Combinator
English, Amharic
Github Skills (44)
iaas10
paas10
devops10
dynamodb9
css-frameworks9
nginx8
mongodb8
memcached8
inference8
databases8
llama8
nuxt7
vue7
python7
react7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Garinmckayl/thisvsthat
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Learn web development by comparing different technologies.
Contributions:10 commits, 22 PRs, 35 pushes in 5 months
web-developmentprogramming-languagesdatabasesnginxreact
Somhako-Tech/MP_Frontend
Nov 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:1 review, 48 PRs, 50 pushes in 5 months
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