About PASS
Built in Ethiopia, for Ethiopian students
Personal Assisted Study Service — grades 9–12 and the national exam.
How PASS began
The foundational concept of PASS emerged while the founder was attending the 5 Million Ethiopian Coders Initiative. While participating in its AI and software development training, he realized the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and scalable software design for public education — the initiative showed how digital tools can spread skills to millions of citizens at once.
Eskindir recognized that the same scalable digital architecture could solve the educational bottleneck facing secondary school students. The core idea was born: an AI-driven, app-based study engine delivering personal tutoring and national exam preparation to large numbers of students at the same time.
Partnering with senior software architect Yared Yaregal, the team turned this concept into PASS (Personal Assisted Study Service) — software built directly around the Ethiopian national exam syllabus.
The founders
Eskindir Teshome
Founder & Operations Lead
Professional Civil Engineer with over 20 years of operational, administrative and strategic leadership experience across major Ethiopian institutions, including roles as Engineering Department Manager.
Education
B.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Mekelle University (2004); M.Sc. postgraduate coursework at Addis Ababa University.
Strengths
Strategic planning, enterprise project management, organizational governance and technology implementation. Author of several published books on construction, business management and technology.
Yared Yaregal Muluya
Chief Software Architect
Senior Data and Software Engineer with extensive international experience across Europe, including technical roles at Ribbon BioLabs (Austria), Genetec (Austria), UNDP Accelerator Labs Global and IBM Hungary.
Education
M.Sc. in Computer Science Engineering and B.Sc. in Mechatronics Engineering, John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Óbuda University, Budapest, Hungary.
Strengths
Enterprise system architecture, machine learning model integration, database administration and user-interface optimization for high-concurrency applications.