Product-focused professional with 3+ years leading product roadmaps, market research, and strategic partnerships across AI, EdTech, and impact-driven organizations in East Africa. I'm skilled in translating stakeholder and user insights into prioritized product decisions, coordinating cross-functional teams, and applying lean, data-informed methods to accelerate delivery and adoption — with a track record of scaling platforms to 7,000+ users and cutting delivery timelines by up to 50%. I've been teaching and building in one form or another since second grade, and I always try to understand and show the why behind every lesson, product decision, and line of code. My "grand" vision is to see every learner and every user enjoy what they've chosen to pursue and develop real purpose.
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Experience
Education Lead
Responsibilities at Ethioware:
- Built and executed a product roadmap for a hybrid learning platform, onboarding 7,000+ students across 59 schools
- Adapted the roadmap to evolving learner needs under limited data, sustaining continuous lesson adoption despite ambiguity
- Conducted 740+ user surveys and 50+ interviews, informing feature prioritization that improved adoption by 60%
- Partnered with engineers from Google, Amazon, and Yale and NGO stakeholders, building a 40+ member mentor network
- Launched masterclasses and internship pipelines, achieving a 92% participant satisfaction rate
- Recognized as Ecosystem Hero, Regional Finalist — East African Startup Awards (Jun 2024)
Education
Publications
- Yimmam, A. (2024). Beyond Access: Factors Influencing Students' Utilization of Educational Technologies at Selected High Schools in Addis Ababa – A Survey Analysis.
- Bati, T. B., Kebede, T., & Yimmam, A. F. Cybersecurity Concerns in the Digital Age: Exploring Awareness, Perceptions, and Practices Among Hawassa University Students. Presented at the International Conference on Cybersecurity & AI, UN Economic Commission for Africa (Jun 2026); manuscript in preparation for journal submission.
- Yimmam, A., & Yimmam, B. (2023). Academic Motivation of High School Students at Dr. Haddis Alemayehu Secondary School [Preprint]. ScienceOpen Preprints. DOI: 10.14293/PR2199.000248.v2.
Certifications & Awards
Certifications
- Google Project Management: Professional Certificate — Google, Oct 2025
- Practical Application of Generative AI for Project Managers — PMI, Mar 2026
- Data Analytics for Project Management — Oct 2025
Awards & Honors
- Ecosystem Hero, Regional Finalist — East African Startup Awards, for Ethioware EdTech Initiative (Jun 2024)
- Hospitality Hackathon Winner (Jun 2026)
- National Finalist, Agricultural Transformation Innovation Challenge (Feb 2026)
- Google Sub-Saharan Africa Students Summit, Top 100 (Apr 2023)
Skills
Languages: English (C1) • Amharic (C2, Native) • Arabic (B2) • French (A1)
Product Portfolio
A Telegram Mini App connecting individuals and corporate teams to verified wellness providers across Addis Ababa. Lead builder — 66 of 70 commits (94%) spanning product definition, a FastAPI/SQLAlchemy/Supabase backend, a React 18/Vite frontend, and a python-telegram-bot worker.
- Built as a 1-day hackathon MVP, then extended into a 3-phase product: marketplace, community/points engine, and events & subscriptions
- Legacy Points engine, provider self-onboarding, and a Super Admin dashboard with CSV reporting
- Integrated an AI concierge chatbot with bookable provider suggestions
- i18n in Amharic, French, and Italian via i18next
- Beta-hardening pass: global error handling, route-level code splitting, visibility-aware polling, and navigation smoke tests
- ~22,700 lines added across backend, frontend, and bot services
Solo-built product manager for a self-serve BD onboarding portal at iCog Labs: a structured 14-day intern program paired with an internal HR/admin dashboard for tracking cohort health. Shipped to production on a custom domain in ~2 days.
- Day-by-day (1-14) checklist, courses module, and resources section
- Admin dashboard: cohort completion rates, stalled-intern alerting, intern directory
- Defined a simple "no activity in 5+ days" stalled heuristic so HR could triage without a data background
- Intern feedback channel surfaced directly in the admin dashboard
- PostHog analytics and one-click CSV export for reporting
- Built on Next.js 14, React 18, and Vercel/Neon Postgres
Reviews
Abde-Ssamed Ouahabi
Big thanks for a great CV review session! Your insights and advice were incredibly helpful.
Samuel Worash Getaneh
One of the most disciplined colleagues I've worked with. Comments are insightful.
Hanan Hussen
Provided consistent guidance and practical insights throughout our project.
Leoul Mesfin
Amazing knowledge of what he does, and a great personality.
