Kaleb Getachew

Kaleb Getachew

Resume

Apr 2023

KALEB GETACHEW

Seattle // 571-481-0220 // kg9rv@virginia.edu // LinkedIn // HackerRank // Github
Major: Computer Science and Statistics

EDUCATION

B.S. COMPUTER SCIENCE, University of Virginia, CS GPA: 3.7 Graduated: May 2022 Core Courses: Algorithms, Statistics, Program & Data Representation, Machine Learning, Statistical ML, Ad- vanced Software Engineering, ML for Statistics, CyberSecurity, Computer Architecture, Discrete Math, Probability, Operating Systems, Computer Vision, Data Analysis, NLP, Databases

SKILLS

Programming Languages: Python, Java, Kotlin, C++, C, C#, JS, CSS, HTML, SQL, NoSQL, R, Lean, OCaml Technologies:REST, Git, Spring Boot, ReactJS, Docker, Kubernetes, Temporal, Datadog, Mockito, Maven/Gradle

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SoFi - Invest Team Seattle, WA Software Engineer (Jul 2022 - Mar 2023)

  • Collaborated with co-workers in automating git CI/CD pipelines during a 2-week company-wide Hackathon
  • Contributed with Invest team in developing Options Trading platform for web and mobile applications over 6 months
  • Designed and implemented a new document-saving process, improving security and stability by 15%, benefiting thousands of users

PayPal - World Ready Team Remote Software Engineering Intern (Jun 2021 - Sep 2021)

  • Focused on improving overall quality effect of PayPal sites from 77% to 90%
  • Engineered and documented Polish language model APIs for in-house use, adhering to PayPal standard
  • Co-authored, trained, and tested multiple Natural Language Generation models within 12-weeks using Python to personalize various PayPal web-pages

PayPal - Collections Team Remote Data Science Intern (Jun 2021 - Sep 2021)

  • Identified top-performing variables from collections database influencing dialing volume to customers
  • Finalized project using Tableau, and JupyterNotebooks to clearly, and accurately convey findings

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

FitUVA (Feb 2021 - May 2021)

  • Utilized industry services such as Heroku Cloud, Django, and Postgres
  • Co-designed and co-developed a website to gamify fitness through tracking exercises, joining fitness groups, and awarding badges, achieving 95% user satisfaction

Restaurant Recommender ML4VA Presentation (Aug 2020 - Dec 2020)

  • Employed models such as: Random Forests, Logistical, Decision Tree, Adaboost, and Bagging Models
  • Gathered and cleaned diverse, open-source, data containing 300+ entries across Virginia
  • Collaborated with 3 others to write, train and test an ensemble of classifiers to recommend restaurants based on personal inputs, achieving 90% precision and accuracy

LEADERSHIP

ColorStack - President: Assembled 10 students to establish 1st ColorStack chapter at UVA, striving to increase entrance, retention and success of Black, Latinx, and Native American college students in computing.

ORGANIZATIONS

  • National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
  • Machine Learning Club Chess Club
  • CyberSecurity and Networking Club (CNS)
  • Ethiopian-Eritrean Student Association (EESA)
  • Data Science Club (DSAC)