Seb Hapte-selassie
Co-founder & CTO at telli
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSeb Hapte-selassie is a founder and engineer with eight years of experience building product-led consumer platforms, currently serving as Co-founder & CTO at telli, where he’s creating a platform for consumer-facing AI voice agents. He blends hands-on engineering and product leadership from prior roles at Pitch (software engineer and product manager) and early-stage tech teams at Circ, BCG Digital Ventures, and N26. A Stanford-trained computer scientist and Y Combinator alumnus, Seb is comfortable spanning the stack while steering product strategy in fast-moving startups. Based in Berlin, he brings a pragmatic mix of operations, product, and engineering experience that helps translate AI capabilities into user-facing experiences. Less obvious: he pivots seamlessly between shipping code and shaping product roadmaps, an asset for startups turning research-grade AI into reliable consumer features.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
F24, F24 at Y CombinatorMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (83)
postgresql10
typescript10
prisma10
tailwindcss10
evaluation10
zod10
react10
react-components9
next-auth9
linux9
ratatui9
shell9
warp9
ui-components9
bash9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sebhs/human-reader-chrome-extension
Feb 2024 - Oct 2024
Let the web speak like a human. A simple chrome extension that uses the elevenlabs.io API to convert any text to speech.
Contributions:6 reviews, 33 PRs, 53 pushes in 8 months
sebhs/sebhs.github.io
Mar 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:51 pushes in 2 years
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