AI Content Release Bot reduced PCAP regression query time from 5 minutes to 20 seconds at Palo Alto Networks.
Software engineer · AI systems · Palo Alto Networks alum
Building impactful software at scale as an incoming engineer at Apple.
I'm Nahom Kidane, an incoming Software Engineer at Apple and Palo Alto Networks alum. I build AI powered tools, precise interfaces, and systems that perform where it counts. I bring strong ownership, clear communication, and a 3.85 GPA foundation in CS and Mathematics from MSU Mankato.
Incoming @ Apple
Full time Software Engineer starting August 2026.
Top 10 Researcher
Recognized at Palo Alto Networks HQ in San Jose for research excellence.
Selected impact
Numbers that make the engineering story land.
From AI systems at Palo Alto Networks to campus scale IT support, here are the outcomes that matter most.
BigQuery dashboards cut triage time by 30% and boosted analyst efficiency 6× on the security team.
Ranked among the Top 10 Best Research Proposers and presented at Palo Alto Networks HQ in San Jose.
Selected work
Product focused projects with practical engineering underneath.
Case study 01
Alchemi
Educational AI platform built at a Microsoft Hackathon. A serverless ETL pipeline extracts learning objectives from multi hundred page syllabi to enable personalized AI tutoring experiences powered by Azure.
Stack
MongoDB, Next.js, Azure
Outcome
Personalized tutoring from any syllabus
Case study 02
HearForYou
AI mental health peer support app using Flask, TensorFlow for sentiment analysis, and the Gemini API. Earned finalist honors at Big Ideas Minnesota. Conversations stored in Firestore with an empathetic AI response layer.
Stack
Flask, TensorFlow, Gemini API
Recognition
Finalist at Big Ideas Minnesota
Core strengths
Systems thinking, product polish, and implementation detail.
Front end systems
I build interfaces with strong hierarchy, careful spacing, and a focus on interactions that feel deliberate rather than decorative.
React
TypeScript
Next.js
Tailwind CSS
AI and data work
My internship and research work centers on practical AI, from LLM pipelines with RAG to computer vision and production BigQuery dashboards.
Python
Vertex AI
TensorFlow
BigQuery
Engineering taste
I care about the invisible parts too: Docker pipelines, GCP infrastructure, clean APIs, and shipping code that other people can reason about quickly.
Docker
GCP
Azure
Node.js
Flask
MySQL
Timeline
A concise path through the work that shaped my engineering style.
Software Engineer
Apple
Incoming full time Software Engineer. Joining the team in August 2026.
Software Engineer Intern
Palo Alto Networks · Santa Clara, CA
Built an AI powered Content Release Assistant using Python, Vertex AI, and BigQuery, slashing query time from 5 minutes to 20 seconds and boosting analyst efficiency 6×.
Research Assistant
Palo Alto Networks · Remote
Researched adversarial tactics, threat intelligence, and SOAR. Ranked Top 10 Best Research Proposers, and presented findings at Palo Alto Networks HQ in San Jose.
Senior IT Solutions Consultant
IT Solutions Center, MSU
Maintained 98% customer satisfaction providing campus wide technical support. Built a diagnostics dashboard cutting support ticket response time by 30%.
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