About
B.S. in Computer Science & Mathematics from Whitworth University.
Focused on backend development, cloud infrastructure, and security engineering. Building systems with dependable infrastructure and zero-trust architecture.
Experience
Parameter Golf Competitor
OpenAI
Training a language model to fit within 16MB, under 10 minutes on 8 H100 GPUs, optimized for maximum compression on FineWeb. Engineering custom training loops with gradient accumulation, mixed-precision arithmetic, and memory-efficient data loading.
Startup Engineer (Founding Team)
Celeri.io
Won $50,000 investment at Sparks Weekend to build communication software for criminal courts, reducing pretrial detention times by connecting stakeholders across counties.
Watch the pitch →Full-Stack Software Engineer Intern
Hewitt Learning
Designed scalable REST APIs with C#, ASP.NET Core, and MySQL with RBAC. Automated PDF report generation reducing turnaround by 60%. Deployed via GitHub Actions CI/CD.
Security Engineer Intern
Washington Trust Bank
Automated IT and vulnerability monitoring workflows using PowerShell and Python REST APIs, eliminating 80+ engineering hours/week. Deployed 5+ automated security compliance checks integrated with Azure and GitHub Actions CI/CD.
Volunteer Software Engineer
West Central Community Center
Built a full-stack database management system for a nonprofit, migrating 1000+ user records from manual Excel spreadsheets to a relational MySQL database. Led a 4-member team delivering role-based authentication, full CRUD operations, and sortable views.
Skills
Languages
Frameworks
Cloud
Security
Systems
Data
Beyond the Code
Lifting & Soccer
Lifting is my main fitness focus. Tracking my progress on Hevy and follow my journey there! I also enjoy playing and watching soccer.
Follow me on Hevy →Gaming & Anime
I am a casual gamer but enjoy immersing myself in a good story game or anime. Games like Far cry 3 and uncharted are some of my favorites. Enjoyed watching anime like Attack on Titan and Vinland Saga.
Coffee & Spiritual Life
As Ethiopian I grew up around coffee culture and I love trying new roasts and brewing methods. I am also working on my spiritual life and enjoy reading the Bible.
Cooking
I enjoy cooking and trying new recipes. I find it to be a creative outlet to experiment with flavors and cuisines. Let me know if you have any favorite recipes to share!
Projects
Built a distributed engineering analytics platform mining GitHub repository data to surface PR velocity, review latency, and code churn. Streams events through Cloud Pub/Sub into BigQuery for sub-second querying. Vertex AI anomaly detection on Cloud Run flags productivity regressions with 95% precision.
Network Intrusion Detection System
Real-time network intrusion detection system classifying live traffic across 7 attack categories including DoS, DDoS, port scanning, and brute-force. Trained Random Forest on 2.5M+ CICIDS2017 records achieving 97.47% accuracy and 98.21% F1-score. Results visualized in a live Streamlit dashboard.
CPU Scheduler Simulator
Implemented FCFS, Round Robin, and MLFQ scheduling from scratch in C and benchmarked against 1,000+ real PlanetLab distributed VM workload traces. Measured throughput, CPU utilization, turnaround time, and response time to identify optimal strategy per workload type.