San Jose, California

Mulugeta Girmay

MS Software Engineering student at San Jose State. I build web apps from design to deployment, with a focus on security.

Studying

MS Software Engineering, SJSU

Also

Data Analytics Fellowship, COOP Careers

Focus

Frontend, security engineering, data

About

I build the interface and care about what sits behind it.

Frontend

React, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Vite, Figma, user testing

Backend and data

Java, Python, Spring Boot, Javalin, Django REST, NestJS, JUnit, Mockito, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Tableau

Security

Zeek, Suricata, pcap analysis, IOC extraction, PKI, IDS/IPS, VPNs

Infrastructure

Google Cloud, Docker, Linux, VMware

Projects

Selected work

• 01

  EventHub

  Event management platform. I led the frontend for a four-person team.

  Full-stack →
• 02

  BiteWise

  Meal-prep planner with recipe search and a calorie tracker.

  Web app →
• 03

  C2 Traffic Analyzer

  Python pipeline that finds malware command-and-control traffic.

  Security →
• 04

  BART Ridership Recovery

  How station traffic moved from before COVID to recovery.

  Data viz →
• 05

  RecipeHub

  Full-stack recipe manager with user and admin roles.

  Full-stack →
• 06

  Social Media Blog API

  Backend for accounts and messages, built with Javalin and JDBC.

  Back end →
• 07

  Spring Social Media Blog API

  The same backend rebuilt with Spring Boot and Spring Data.

  Back end →

Experience

Work and education

• Dec 2025 – Mar 2026

  Java Intern, Revature

  Pre-Employment Program, back-end developer track.

  • Built functional REST APIs in Java with Spring Boot, using test-driven development.
  • Completed 108 coding activities and 14 evaluations covering Java, SQL, REST and the Spring Framework.
  • Wrote algorithms with Java APIs to solve problem sets in data structures and algorithms.

  Java, SQL, JDBC, Maven, Git, Javalin, JUnit, Mockito, Logback, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA

education and training

• Expected May 2028

  MS Software Engineering, San Jose State University

  Includes network security (CMPE 209): IPSec, VPNs, firewalls, IDS/IPS, Zero Trust and applied cryptography.

• Expected Dec 2026

  Data Analytics Fellowship, COOP Careers

  16-week program alongside my master's coursework.

• May 2025

  BS Computer Science, San Francisco State University

• Ongoing

  Cybersecurity certifications and labs

  Google and IBM cybersecurity certificates, CodePath Intro to Cybersecurity, and regular TryHackMe rooms.

Contact

Let's talk about roles.

I'm open to software engineering and security engineering roles. Reach me through any of these.

EventHub

A full-stack event management platform, deployed on Google Cloud. I was frontend lead on a four-person team.

Role

Frontend lead

Context

MS SWE, Team Alpha

Code

GitHub ↗

• Generated SVG banners give every event its own artwork without uploads.
• Command palette and onboarding tour make the app quick to learn and quick to move around.
• Saved events, calendar export and a payment modal cover the attendee side.
• Password reset by email through Resend, plus admin roles and a report-event flow.
• Figma prototype with 30 frames and over 250 wired interactions, built before the code.

• React
• TypeScript
• Vite
• Django REST
• PostgreSQL
• GCP

BiteWise

A meal-prep planning app with recipe search, personalized plans and a live calorie tracker.

Role

Frontend developer

Context

SFSU CSC 648, team of five

Code

GitHub ↗

• All frontend work was mine, from wireframes to the deployed React app.
• Recipe and nutrition data come from recipe APIs and the Open Food Facts API.
• Three rounds of user testing shaped three Figma prototype versions.
• Results: a 40% faster task flow and a 30% improvement in usability scores.

• React 18
• NestJS
• MySQL
• Docker
• Google Cloud
• Figma

C2 Traffic Analyzer

A Python pipeline that reads network logs and captures to find malware command-and-control traffic, then writes an HTML report.

Context

SJSU CMPE 209

Inputs

Zeek, Suricata, pcap

Code

GitHub ↗

• Beaconing detection looks for regular call-backs in flow data.
• DNS entropy scoring flags names that look generated by a domain generation algorithm.
• IOC extraction collects the IPs and domains an analyst would block.
• Finding: on one sample the C2 channel was a single long TCP session. A Suricata alert caught it where beaconing analysis did not.

• Python
• Zeek
• Suricata
• pcap

BART Ridership Recovery

A group data visualization project on how Bay Area station traffic moved from before COVID, through the pandemic, and into recovery.

Context

COOP Careers fellowship, team of six

Data

BART daily station exits, data.sf.gov

Dashboard

Tableau Public ↗

• Scope: October only, 2019 to 2024, so each year compares like with like.
• Five stations: Embarcadero, Powell Street, Downtown Berkeley, Lake Merritt and 19th Street Oakland.
• Stakeholder: BART. The charts are built in Tableau for a deck and a written report.

• Tableau
• Data analysis
• Google Sheets

RecipeHub

A full-stack web app for managing recipes and ingredients in the browser, with separate permissions for regular users and admins.

Context

Revature Pre-Employment Program

Stack

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java REST API

Code

GitHub ↗

• Recipes: signed-in users can view, search, add, update and delete recipes.
• Admin role: admins also view, add and delete ingredients, and the interface checks the role before showing those controls.
• Authentication: login and logout with session handling, and password confirmation at registration.
• Frontend and API: the browser app talks to the Java backend over REST, with CORS support configured.

• JavaScript
• HTML
• CSS
• Java
• REST

Social Media Blog API

A backend-only API for a social media app, written in Java with Javalin and JDBC.

Context

Revature Pre-Employment Program

Stack

REST backend with SQL through JDBC

Code

GitHub ↗

• Accounts: user registration and login.
• Messages: create, update and delete messages.
• Feeds: endpoints return every message on the site, or only the messages from one user.

• Java
• Javalin
• JDBC
• SQL
• REST

Spring Social Media Blog API

The same social media backend rebuilt on the Spring Framework, replacing hand-written JDBC and routing with Spring Boot, Spring Web and Spring Data.

Context

Revature Pre-Employment Program

Stack

REST backend with Spring Data JPA

Code

GitHub ↗

• Same features: registration, login, and creating, updating and deleting messages, plus listing all messages or one user's messages.
• Spring Web handles the endpoints and Spring Data handles persistence.
• Comparison: building both versions showed what the framework takes over compared with Javalin and raw JDBC.

• Java
• Spring Boot
• Spring Web
• Spring Data JPA
• REST