Automation Engineer
08/2025 — PresentWellness USA — Minneapolis, MN
- Programmed PLC logic in Structured Text (ST), Ladder Diagram (LD), and Function Block Diagram (FBD) for motors, LED systems, and infrared heater control.
- Developed a CODESYS WebVisu HMI hosted on Raspberry Pi, with full offline (Wi-Fi/Ethernet) and online access via Cloudflare tunnels.
- Implemented Modbus TCP communication between Raspberry Pi and IDEC PLC with dual-path network redundancy.
- Diagnosed and resolved networking and connectivity issues; documented root causes and solutions for long-term reference.
Engineering Intern
05/2025 — 08/2025Xcel Energy — Minneapolis, MN
- Developed a fully automated energy utilization dashboard in Grafana, ingesting high-resolution smart meter data every 5 seconds via MQTT.
- Built Python pipelines to collect, clean, and publish smart meter readings into a time-series database for analytics.
- Containerized dashboard setup using Docker, shell scripts, and Makefile to ensure reproducibility across Linux and Mac systems.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
01/2023 — 05/2025North Dakota State University — Fargo, ND
- Served as grader for undergraduate courses including: CSCI 312 (Survey of Programming Languages), CSCI 336 (Theoretical Computer Science), CSCI 366 (Database Systems), and CSCI 371 (Web Scripting Languages).
- Instructed CSCI 114 (Computer Applications), covering computer concepts, operating systems, internet fundamentals, word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and presentation software.
- Supported professors with lectures, course materials, student consultations, and exam review sessions.
Data Engineer
05/2022 — 01/2023University of Regensburg — Germany
- Automated ingestion of datasets from APIs and web sources into PostgreSQL for research workflows.
- Built validation pipelines using web scraping to ensure data accuracy and compliance with GDPR requirements.
Graduate Engineering Researcher
09/2020 — 04/2022University of Rostock — Germany
- Contributed to interdisciplinary research including scientific text preprocessing, validation, topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and classification using Sci-BERT LLM.
- Analyzed materials and technologies for high-temperature laser diode applications.
- Performed particle velocity measurements using laser-based techniques.
- Implemented a VHDL module for audio signal processing on a Xilinx FPGA.
Electrical Engineer
09/2015 — 08/2018General Power PLC — Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Sourced components such as pumps, relays, and motors based on engineering specifications.
- Conducted preventive maintenance on autonomous CNC machines and industrial systems.
- Identified equipment faults and documented quality-assurance findings for management review.