{"id":358909,"date":"2023-08-21T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/08\/21\/netflix-engineer-22-mysteriously-disappears-after-taking-uber-ride-in-california\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T08:23:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T08:23:00","slug":"netflix-engineer-22-mysteriously-disappears-after-taking-uber-ride-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/08\/21\/netflix-engineer-22-mysteriously-disappears-after-taking-uber-ride-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Engineer, 22, Mysteriously Disappears After Taking Uber Ride In California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Netflix Engineer, 22, Mysteriously Disappears After Taking Uber Ride In California\" alt=\"Netflix Engineer, 22, Mysteriously Disappears After Taking Uber Ride In California\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-08\/2lq6n5t_netflix-engineer-missing_625x300_21_August_23.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">His cell phone, wallet, and backpack were found near the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A 22-year-old Netflix employee in California mysteriously vanished after surveillance cameras showed him getting into an Uber,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/08\/19\/netflix-software-engineer-yohanes-kidane-goes-missing-after-hes-last-seen-getting-into-uber-weeks-after-starting-new-job\/\">New York Post<\/a><\/em> reported. Yohanes Kidane, a computer scientist from \u00a0Cornell University, began working as a software engineer with the streaming giant just two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Security cameras captured him coming out of his apartment and getting\u00a0into an Uber at 28 North Fourth Street in San Jose, California around 7:15 p.m. PT on August 14.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He traveled here [San Francisco] late July, July 26th, and he started work last week, so this was his second week of work,&#8221; the man&#8217;s older brother, Yosief Kidane, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/family-says-son-has-disappeared-just-weeks-after-starting-job-at-netflix\"><em>KTVU<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mr Kidane further said their family was not able to reach Yohanes on Monday evening and noticed that Yohanes&#8217; phone tracker didn&#8217;t move from a spot near Golden Gate Bridge.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His cell phone, wallet, and backpack were found near the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center in San Francisco, according to a missing persons poster\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CwDUEbCLsEV\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared by Yosief Kidane.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CwDUEbCLsEV\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>&#8221;Someone who was in San Rafael, who was on a commute, saw a phone and wallet sitting on this small grassy hill right between the Welcome Center and coffee shop. Thirty bucks in cash was in his wallet, IDs cards, phone untouched,&#8221; Mr. Kidane&#8217;s brother said.<\/p>\n<p>He has been described as a black man standing 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 150 pounds. He was last seen wearing gray sweatpants, a black hoodie, and black shoes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We want to take him home. I need my son. I need my son,&#8221; Mehret Hana Beyene, the man&#8217;s heartbroken mother, told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/family-says-son-has-disappeared-just-weeks-after-starting-job-at-netflix\">KTVU<\/a><\/em>. &#8221;He&#8217;s a good man who has a bright future, very loving to his family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalling medical centres, homeless shelters, distributing posters; doing everything that we can to get my brother back. My best friend,\u201d his brother added.<\/p>\n<nav>As per <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/netflix-employee-missing-california-just-two-weeks-after-moving-bay-area-dream-job\">Fox News<\/a><\/em>, Austin Farmer, Mr. Kidane&#8217;s former roommate at Cornell, said that days before the disappearance, the missing software engineer had told friends about another suspicious rideshare encounter.<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/netflix-engineer-22-mysteriously-disappears-after-taking-uber-ride-in-california-4315179\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] His cell phone, wallet, and backpack were found near the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center A 22-year-old Netflix employee in California mysteriously vanished after surveillance cameras showed him getting into an Uber,\u00a0New York Post reported. Yohanes Kidane, a computer scientist from \u00a0Cornell University, began working as a software engineer with the streaming giant just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":358910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3096,426166,426162,228933,426163,426165,426167,200401,426164,426168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}