Amenti Kenea
NYC (via Addis Ababa → 7 countries → SF → NYC)
2025 - Present: Building Autonomous AI Systems
Currently founding engineer at Didero AI, where I discovered that building autonomous systems is actually a distributed systems problem wearing an AI costume. We process tons of POs daily through AI agents that somehow handle procurement chaos better than humans.
2022-2024: Learning How Big Tech Actually Works
Joined Meta as a Data Scientist on the Core Ads team - basically the “data FBI” for $100B+ in annual revenue:
- Building anomaly detection for 140+ metrics (because someone needs to know when the money printer breaks)
- Leading the Thailand revenue investigation that prevented $1.76M/day from disappearing
- Learning that “executive reporting” means translating “the graph went down” into a 47-slide deck
Fun fact: Couldn’t leave Meta until Oct 1, 2024 due to H1B restrictions. Freedom tastes good.
2018-2022: The Minerva Years
Attended Minerva University (yes, the one with <2% acceptance rate where you live in a different country each semester):
- San Francisco
- Seoul
- Hyderabad
- Berlin
- London
Pre-2018: The Ethiopian Times
Born and raised in Addis Ababa. Spent high school convincing myself med school was the path, then discovered statistics and never looked back.
The Random Stuff
- Started a run club called dontwalkinsoho because NYC needs more people sprinting through traffic
- Run an online radio station at aava.club putting up some songs I like everything from Ethiopian jazz to UK garage
- Write about being less stressed about claude code, fashion, and why your SQL queries don’t need to suck
Currently figuring out what happens when you give AI tools instead of instructions. Turns out, it works better.
My online radio station:
Some fashion experimentation:
My run club: