Buruk Yimesgen

Salesforce/CRM

ECC Salesforce Case Management App

A Salesforce Lightning case management app (ECC Manager) with a System Health dashboard that visualizes case pipeline stages — from Initiation through Closed — and flags bottlenecks by case status.

Tech:

Salesforce

Role:

Freelance / commissioned developer

Full Stack

Fabriq — Full Stack AI Fashion Website

A full-stack AI fashion platform: users build a digital wardrobe and get AI-generated outfit recommendations from their saved garments. Placed 3rd out of 10+ teams at a hackathon.

Tech:

Next.js, React, NeonDB, OpenAI API

Role:

Head Developer

Demo login: johndoe@test.com / 123456

Full Stack

Beaches and Barrels — Python Dungeon Crawler Game

A beach-themed dungeon crawler set in Crabstone Castle, a magical sand castle with dynamically shifting rooms — battle sea creatures, collect power-ups, and survive escalating challenges.

Tech:

Python

Role:

Head Developer

Full Stack

Between Worlds — JavaScript Side Scroller

A browser-based 2D action game with a custom JavaScript engine built from scratch — players shift between two versions of each level to dodge enemies, reach new paths, and interact with the environment differently.

Tech:

JavaScript, HTML5 Canvas

Role:

Head Developer

Data Science & Research

Quantum Computing Research

Quantum computing is a developing technology that has the potential to change several aspects of computing as we know it. In this paper, we introduce several essential components of quantum computing such as qubits, superposition, and entanglement. In addition, we discuss two examples of quantum computing: quantum teleportation and Grover's Algorithm. Our coverage of quantum teleportation provides an example of a property of quantum computing that is impossible using classical computing. In addition to this property, we cover Grover's Algorithm which is a key advancement in quantum computing, providing quadratic speedup for unstructured search problems compared to classical algorithms. We explain the algorithm's principles, including amplitude amplification and the role of the oracle. Our findings underscore the significant potential of quantum computing in solving complex problems more efficiently than classical methods.

Tech:

Quantum Computing Theory, Linear Algebra

Role:

Co-author (with Malaya Jove; advised by Dr. Ryan Card)

Data Science & Research

NASA GRACE Climate Data Science Research

This study uses statistical and machine learning techniques to impute missing data from GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) terrestrial water storage (TWS) datasets. We examined information from 2 of the 62 watersheds across the globe, taking into account variables such as temperature, precipitation, evapotranspiration, NDVI, and ENSO. Creating models to predict TWS and efficiently impute missing values was our aim. We investigated techniques including Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), Deep Neural Networks (DNN), Generalized Linear Models (GLM), and mean/median imputation. Mean Squared Error (MSE) was used to assess these models' performance to choose the most effective method for precise forecasting and imputation.

Tech:

R, XGBoost, Deep Neural Networks, GLM

Role:

Co-author (with Jenna Weldon; advised by Tamer Elbayoumi, mentored by Brett Hunter)

Full Stack

Always With Compassion

A commissioned website for Always With Compassion, an adult family home.

Tech:

React, React Router, Tailwind CSS

Role:

Freelance / commissioned developer