Willustore
The People

Built by Believers in Data Sovereignty

We're engineers, operators, and researchers who got tired of watching organizations hand their most sensitive AI data to providers they don't control.

Core Team

The Founders & Operators

A cross-functional team with deep roots in distributed systems, cryptography, enterprise sales, and growth.

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Abebe Haile

CEO & Co-founder

Former distributed systems engineer at Cloudflare. PhD dropout turned founder, obsessed with making privacy-preserving infrastructure accessible to every organization on the planet.

Distributed SystemsProduct StrategyFundraising
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Tigist Bekele

CTO & Co-founder

Principal engineer at Stripe, built core payment infrastructure serving billions of transactions. Now applying the same rigorous engineering discipline to decentralized storage and vector search.

Vector DatabasesCryptographyP2P Networks
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Dawit Tesfaye

COO

Operations leader with 10+ years scaling B2B SaaS companies. Led university partnerships at a major edtech company, bringing deep expertise in institutional sales and customer success.

OperationsUniversity PartnershipsScaling
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Sara Alemu

CMO

Growth and marketing leader who scaled developer tools from 0 to 100k users. Expert in technical content marketing, community building, and making complex technology feel approachable.

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Advisors

World-Class Expertise Behind Us

Our advisors bring decades of experience in distributed systems research, enterprise sales, and applied cryptography.

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Dr. Yohannes Girma

Research Advisor

MIT CSAIL

Pioneer in approximate nearest neighbor search algorithms. Co-authored key HNSW papers.

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Mekdes Wolde

Enterprise Advisor

Ex-VP at Salesforce

Helped close 500+ enterprise deals. Deep relationships across Fortune 500 companies and university IT departments.

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Prof. Aida Bekele

Security Advisor

Stanford University

Cryptography professor and author of widely-used research on threshold encryption schemes.

We're Hiring

Join the Mission

We're a small, highly-focused team building infrastructure that will power the next generation of private AI. If you care deeply about distributed systems, cryptography, or developer experience — we want to hear from you.

Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
Cryptography Researcher
Developer Relations Engineer
Enterprise Account Executive
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Top-tier hardware