For my senior capstone I worked with Crest Data to build an AI-powered alert triage system for security operations centers (SOCs). SOC analysts get buried in alerts every day, most of them noise, but none of them can be ignored. Our system uses an LLM orchestrated through MCP servers to pull alerts from Jira, enrich them with threat intelligence from VirusTotal, classify the risk, and post a structured verdict with reasoning back into Jira. My main contribution was the integration architecture, connecting the LLM to external tools and making sure the back-and-forth between tool calls and model responses stayed coherent.
Education is rapidly changing in Ethiopia. In the summer of 2023 I spent three weeks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on a design research program through UW, studying technology access in higher education with the goal of figuring out how technology programs could expand education beyond the campus. I did research interviews with faculty at Addis Ababa University and learned firsthand what infrastructure and what students and professors needed. That fieldwork became the foundation of a proposal for online educational programs developed and delivered by the end of the trip.
Taught database design in the age of AI, which meant rethinking what's worth teaching when students can generate SQL in seconds. Graded assignments, led weekly lab sections, and responded to a lot of emails.
Built automation projects and digital tools for the Customer Service Department, and worked wherever I was needed.
Helped students debug their capstone projects and tutored in Python and R. Got really good at finding syntax errors.
Wrote PySpark pipelines on Databricks to process healthcare data. Learned what it means to build something that has to work every day, not just once.