Hi, my name is

Dawit Tekeste

I am experienced Software Engineer student with concentration in Full Stack Web Development and Backend Software Development, Natural Language Processing, and Android app development. I am challenging myself in software development in various fields, I am working on strengthening my skills in Machine Learning with Large Language Models.

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Skills

Python
Java
JavaScript
Angular
MySQL
AWS
PHP
Workflow
  • Efficient Backend Developing
  • Cross Browser Testing & Debugging Web Developing
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Precise Models Using Machine Learning

Relevant Experience

tlassian

Software Engineer Intern
May 2024 - Aug 2024

• Created a full-stack software feature to support Jira custom fields for Atlassian analytics.

• By generating dynamic SQL queries using Django and utilizing React to generate charts, I enhanced the feature for ~3000 enterprise customers.

• I constantly improved based on customer feedback and ensured a seamless user experience and data visualization.

Beats By Dre

Consumer Insights and Market Intellegence
Jun 2024 - Aug 2024

• Conducted extensive research on consumer preferences in audio devices, specifically focusing on speaker features, through interviews with 10 individuals.

• Shared valuable insights with Beats engineers to inform future product development strategies.

• Enhanced customer satisfaction by aligning product features with consumer preferences.

L3Harris Space Superiority Division

Software Engineer Intern
May 2023 - July 2023

• Created an Orbit Visualizer to track satellites' position across their orbit path.

• Used Springboot for Restful API calls, Orekit to calculate satellite path along its orbit, Angular for frontend design along with Cesium and AstroUX JS, and Python for handling satellite's order of battle.

• Learned Agile Scrum to build my project and added bonus features along the way.

• Used Atlassian Suite to use the agile method along with documenting my code, decisions, retrospectives, and Bitbucket for version control

Virginia Commonwealth University

Natural Language Processing Research Assistant in BioInformatics
May 2022 - Present

• Creating a model using knime that will predict treatments and medications for people diagnose with the disease based on their physical and genetic information

• Created and debugged pipelines to get the results needed

• Helped me understand about machine learning, natural language processing from research papers

Virginia Commonwealth University

UI/UX Research Assistant
August 2022 - Feb 2023

• Find Open Source Java Projects that will help students understand java, android development, github and open source contribution

• Test Apps and Games and find features to improve or add that will later be given to students as assignments

IBM

Accelerate Software Engineer Intern
Jun 2022 - August 2022

• Developed modern websites using React.js securing data transmission and storage, and hosted them using Kubernetes.

Virginia Commonwealth University

Natural Language Processing Research Assistant(REU)
May 2022 - August 2022

• Created a program with a model that will process chemical and biological research papers

• Used python for the both the frontend and backend, made the program versatile, so it can with older pdfs, and get general text for non-clinical/chemical research papers

• Currently being used in the computer science department, biology and chemical and life science departments at VCU

• Helped me learn about bert, spacy, and clinical processing models how to use them to get the best data from papers

Virginia Commonwealth University

Robotics Programming Research Assistant
September 2021 - May 2020

• Created and AWS Cloud computing environment to help students learn about C, GitHub and linux environment

• Currently being used in a class to teach students C and how to use software as a service

• Helped me understand C, how to use AWS resources and scale them, collaborate efficiently with my coworkers using GitHub

Hillside School

IT Department Development Assistant
May 2020 - August 2020

• Developed a test system to help the school give online test to student during the COVID pandemic

• Created a telegram bot and a website to efficiently give students test and make them upload it with minimal cheating and while using less data

• Helped me understand how to code efficiently with limited resources(especially internet bandwidth) while making it securing, learned PHP and SQL

Education

Virginia Commonwealth University

Bachelor of Science
August 2021 - May 2025
Computer Science - Software Engineering

GPA: 4.0

Awards & Certifications

  • IBM - Software Developer Certificate
  • Volunteer Recognition - Education For Needy People Association
  • Winner - William and Mary Hackathon(Cypher VII)
  • Deans List Recognition (Fall 2021, Spring 2023) - Virginia Commonwealth University
  • More Coming on the way. . . . . . . )

Interests

Apart From being a software engineer, I am a hip hop/rap music producer, I have put out a few tracks and have also been a part of a few musics that have become famous in Ethiopia, I also like to game I am a classic rpg and open world gamer

I also like watching movies, Amharic/Ethiopian, Bollywood, French, Turkish, and Telenovela. Genres are action, comedy, rom-com and sometimes drama

When I am outdoors play basketball, soccer, I also love to watch games including the NFL