Amenti Kenea

NYC (via Addis Ababa → 7 countries → SF → NYC)

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.

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.

Born and raised in Addis Ababa. Spent high school convincing myself med school was the path, then discovered statistics and never looked back.

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.

song suggestions of the week

My online radio station:

Some fashion experimentation:

My run club: