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.
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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.
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.
Skills
Languages
Frameworks
Cloud
Security
Systems
Data
Beyond the Code
Soccer
Love playing — I'm down anytime, anywhere. On weekends you'll find me watching the English Premier League.
Anime
Attack on Titan changed the way I think about freedom, sacrifice, and what it means to fight for something bigger than yourself.
Video Games
Far Cry 3 for the storytelling — Vaas is one of the greatest villains ever written. Uncharted 4 for the world building and cinematic feel.
Spiritual Life
Actively working on my spiritual life. Faith keeps me grounded.
Coffee
You can't represent Ethiopia without loving coffee. I'm all about that sip-and-code life.
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.
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.
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.