Systems engineer · Greensboro, NC

Natnael
Workneh.

Cloud infrastructure, real-time software, and autonomous systems.

M.S. Electrical Engineering candidate at North Carolina A&T and former Huawei Cloud Delivery Engineer. I work on systems where infrastructure, networks, software, and physical hardware have to operate reliably together.

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NowGraduate Research Assistant · NC A&T
PreviouslyCloud Delivery Engineer · Huawei
EducationM.S. Electrical Engineering · May 2027

Featured engineering work

Evidence first.

Three examples that best represent how I work: understand the architecture, find the failure boundary, integrate across interfaces, and validate the system under real constraints.

01 / AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

Autonomous Transportation Testbed

Develop and experimentally validate a networked transportation testbed integrating a MATLAB digital twin, OptiTrack Motive/NatNet localization, ground vehicles, Tello drones, and embedded controllers.

  • Built real-time localization and map-registration paths using rigid-body tracking, coordinate transforms, calibration, and tracking-health checks.
  • Developed path following, waypoint navigation, collision safety, and reservation-based intersection coordination for heterogeneous vehicles.
  • Developed a 20 Hz multi-drone feedback controller with independent state, PID memory, safety logic, diagnostics, and nonblocking UDP commands.
MATLABNatNetTCP / UDPControlMulti-agent
PHYSICAL ↔ DIGITAL LOOP
OptiTrack
6DoF pose
→
MATLAB
Control + coordination
→
Cars + Drones
TCP / UDP
LOC ✓CTRL ✓NET ✓LOG ✓
02 / PRODUCTION INFRASTRUCTUREHUAWEI

Enterprise Cloud Operations & Reliability

Supported a three-region Huawei Cloud Stack platform serving 600+ customer organizations across compute, containers, networking, storage, security, and SaaS services.

  • Resolved hundreds of production incidents and service requests using platform logs and restricted support tools.
  • Supported capacity expansions and version upgrades through planning, validation, maintenance execution, and post-change stabilization.
  • Helped restore a critical public-facing service during a WAF-capacity incident using emergency filtering and an off-peak architecture upgrade.
Huawei Cloud StackLinuxVPC / VPNWAFIncident response
03 / EMBEDDED SYSTEMSPHYSICAL BUILD

Custom Vehicle Controller PCB

Designed, fabricated, assembled, and brought up a compact controller board for an autonomous ground vehicle.

KiCadMicroPythonPCBMotor control

Additional software work

Software breadth without competing with the main story.

Biometric Authentication APIDjango REST, React, MySQL, Python face recognition · five-person capstone
Knowledge-Grounded RAG PrototypePython, LangChain, Llama, embeddings, vector database · training prototype at iCog

Experience

Production scale. Research depth.

Current work is hands-on autonomous-systems research; prior work was customer-facing enterprise cloud delivery and operations.

JAN 2026 — PRESENTGreensboro, NC

North Carolina A&T State University

Graduate Research Assistant · Autonomous Robotic Systems Laboratory

Build and validate an NSF-funded autonomous transportation testbed spanning motion capture, real-time software, network communication, embedded control, multi-agent coordination, and physical experiments.

JUN 2024 — NOV 2025Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Huawei Technologies Ethiopia PLC

Cloud Delivery Engineer · Cloud Operations & Maintenance

Delivered and supported enterprise cloud infrastructure, SaaS projects, platform upgrades, capacity expansions, technical troubleshooting, incident response, and customer escalations in a 24/7 environment.

JUL 2024 — SEP 2024Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

iCog Labs

Software Engineering / AI Intern

Built a knowledge-grounded RAG training prototype, implemented Svelte UI pages from Figma, and wrote Playwright tests across core application flows.

Core expertise

What I can contribute.

A focused view of the technical areas supported by my work history—not an exhaustive keyword inventory.

01

Cloud Infrastructure

Huawei Cloud Stack, AWS fundamentals, compute, containers, storage, SaaS delivery, upgrades, capacity expansion.

02

Networking & Security

Linux, TCP/IP, DNS, routing, VPC, VPN, WAF, Cloud Firewall, IAM, incident response, root-cause analysis.

03

Real-Time & Autonomous

MATLAB, NatNet, localization, path following, PID control, multi-agent coordination, UDP/TCP command paths.

04

Embedded & Software

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, MicroPython, KiCad, Python, JavaScript, REST APIs, Git/GitHub, hardware/software integration.

EducationM.S. Electrical EngineeringNorth Carolina A&T State University · Expected May 2027
FoundationB.S. Electrical & Computer EngineeringAddis Ababa Science and Technology University · GPA 3.54/4.00
CertificationAWS Certified Cloud PractitionerIssued August 2024

Resume

One resume. One story.

A single portfolio resume covering enterprise cloud, autonomous-systems research, embedded engineering, and software experience.

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Contact

Interested in working together?

I’m exploring 2027 roles where systems thinking, infrastructure, networking, real-time software, or autonomous systems matter.

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