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Jerry Kidane

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Product Manager at Smart Technologies supporting Hecttor AI, Eduardo E-Learning, and Na-Tech Digital Banking.

Ethiopia

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At Smart Technologies, I support planning and delivery across Hecttor AI, Eduardo E-Learning, and Na-Tech Digital Banking, coordinating requirements and priorities with technical and business teams.

At Eskalate, I developed an ecommerce application with chat using Flutter, WebSockets, and clean architecture. I also contributed to a remote education program at Africa To Silicon Valley and built Flutter projects, including an open-source VS Code extension and a mobile platform connecting Ethiopian startups with investors and mentors.

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Product Manager

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Smart Technologies

Jul 2026 - Present (3 months)

Support the planning, coordination, and execution of multiple technology products, including Hecttor AI, Eduardo E-Learning, and Na-Tech Digital Banking, working across technical and business teams to track requirements, priorities, deliverables, and product progress.

Product Management Requirements Management Cross Functional Collaboration

Teaching Assistant

Africa To Silicon Valley

Jan 2025 - Feb 2026 (1 year 1 month)

Mentored 20 students across Africa in daily DSA sessions (LeetCode/Codeforces/HackerRank), delivering targeted lessons on graph algorithms and dynamic programming. Designed a remote education program for 200+ students with adaptive, scalable curricula, boosting engagement, accelerating learning by 40%, and building a pipeline of top-performing talent.

Data Structures Algorithms Mentorship Curriculum Design Remote Education

Software Engineering Intern

Eskalate

Jun 2024 - Sep 2024 (3 months)

Developed a robust ecommerce application with integrated chat system using Flutter framework, WebSockets and clean architecture principles. Introduced HTTP caching (using Shared Preference) and paginated API calls (using Bloc), reducing median app load time by 25% and increasing weekly retention by 30% (measured with Firebase Analytics).

Flutter WebSockets Clean Architecture HTTP Cache BLoC Firebase Analytics

Education

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Addis Ababa Science And Technology University

Bachelor of Software Engineering, Software Engineering

Pursued a Bachelor of Software Engineering, with coursework in object-oriented programming, cloud computing, distributed systems, artificial intelligence, and database systems.