Kidus Tefeta

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Kidus Tefeta

Founder and CEO of Kidus Digital Group, KTeC design, and BookHere. Self-taught software and product engineer. 18 years old.

I taught myself all of this, and I learn fast. I design and build software, platforms, and products from scratch, from the frontend and backend to the infrastructure, the native apps, and the brand around them. Then I produce the media that makes them look real.

18 years old Silver Spring, Maryland ktec.design ↗ bookhere.site ↗ Resume

Who I am

I don't wait for someone to build it. I build it.

I'm 18, a founder and a self-taught software and product engineer. Nobody taught me this. I pick up whatever a build needs and pick it up fast, then I build whole products end to end: the interface, the backend, the database, the payments, the native apps, and the brand and media around them. Not one piece of the machine, but the whole machine.

I run Kidus Digital Group, a media and software company. I've shipped a multi-tenant SaaS with live 3D and live Stripe billing, phone-control software enforced at the operating system level, booking platforms, custom AI assistants, and native apps across iPhone, Android, and desktop, all before turning 19. If it can be built, I'd rather build it than settle for what already exists.

What I'm capable of

The full stack, and then some.

Product & full-stack engineering

Multi-tenant SaaS, dashboards, auth, roles, live billing, and a super-admin control plane with feature flags and error monitoring. Built to run in the real world, not just to look good in a demo.

Cloud & backend

Cloudflare Pages, Workers, and KV; Supabase and Postgres with row-level security; live Stripe subscriptions; REST APIs, CI, and deploys.

3D & interactive web

Real-time 3D product customizers in the browser, drag to rotate, cloth and physics, WebGL and Three.js.

AI integration

Custom in-product assistants on the Claude API, retrieval and knowledge bases, and on-device ML like background removal.

Mobile & device software

Native SwiftUI apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, Android apps, device-owner kiosk lockdown, iOS supervision, and OS-level control.

Design, brand & media

UI systems and animated sites, brand identity and icon systems, plus film, video, and photography production.

Selected work

Things I've built.

Out Past

The Out Past family

One brand, built to get you out past distraction, on every device.

Out Past Private

Out Past

A growth operating system

A daily system for people who refuse to stay ordinary. It brings an AI mentor, day planning, curated learning, sleep tracking, and accountability, distilled from the greatest performers and living inside your actual day.

Out Past Focus Private

Out Past Focus

Lockdown for every device

Locks a device at the operating system level until a focus session ends, with only real calls getting through. Working on both iPhone (supervision) and Android (device owner), and across tablet and computer too. Real enforcement, with no back door.

Out Past Design Private

Out Past Design

A whiteboard operating system

A kiosk OS that boots straight into an infinite whiteboard, with handwriting-to-text, image tools, and built-in mini apps. It connects to your other devices, so your scratchpad, ideas, and designs move device to device. A device that turns on and drops you straight into thinking, with nothing else in the way.

Founder · Studio
Live

Kidus Digital Group

Media + software company

The studio I run. White-label media production for agencies, plus our own software products. The site, the brand, the KAI AI assistant, and the whole Cloudflare setup were built in-house.

Client work · Web & brand
Delivered

Client sites & brands

Mussie (structural engineer), Grace Church, Light Of Tomorrow, A4 Studio, and more

Custom, animated, high-converting websites and brand work built from scratch for real clients, businesses, and communities, each one designed to stand out instead of looking like a template.

Get in touch

Have something worth building? Let's talk.