His ongoing professional career is already rich with positions at national and international institutions. He combines that professional career with tech entrepreneurship allowing retailers to access FMCGs at favorable terms and competitive prices. 

Dawit Nigusu (photo) is an Ethiopian software engineer and CEO of Shemach, an ecommerce startup he cofounded in 2020.  His startup operates an eponymous B2B platform that allows retailers to order Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) from a wide variety of suppliers across the country either by paying directly or later.  Shemach already claims more than 2,700 registered retailers on its platform, sourcing from eleven locally branded suppliers. In September 2022, it was selected to participate in the last cohort of the accelerator The Baobab Network for intensive training and was given a check of US$50,000 to finance its growth. 

The CEO is a senior full-stack developer, since 2021, with the publishing company Scholastic Corporation. His professional career started in 2017 when he was a software engineering intern for the software company iCogs Labs.   

In April 2018, he joined the University of Addis Ababa’s team as a junior software developer. He implemented several projects including the development of an online document management platform. The same year, he was hired by fintech company L-IFT, as a React Developer. Concurrently, he was also a software engineer for mobility startup  ZayRide.

In June 2019,  was recruited by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) as a Senior Software Engineer in Ethiopia. A few months later, he was promoted to Senior Full Stack Web Developer with  L-IFT. He also ventured into tech entrepreneurship by founding his e-commerce company. From August 2021 to January 2022, he was a software engineering consultant for the FAO. 

Melchior Koba