Hi, I'm Eden

I'm a software engineer turned cybersecurity researcher, currently based in Berlin. This site is where I put the things I make, write, and learn.

The short version

I have a bachelor's in software engineering from Addis Ababa University and an MSc in Applied Cybersecurity from the Erasmus Mundus CyberMACS programme — Year 1 at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Year 2 at SRH Berlin. My thesis focused on software supply chain security: how you detect attacks that sneak into your code before it ever reaches production.

Before the MSc, I worked as a research assistant at TÜBİTAK in Istanbul and as a junior full-stack developer at Aquila ICT Solution in Addis Ababa. I also co-founded Jama Software Solutions.

What I'm focused on right now

Job-hunting in software supply chain security across Berlin and remote, with a soft spot for the companies that made me fall in love with the field — Chainguard, Snyk, Endor Labs. I'm also open to broader cybersecurity, IT, and software engineering roles.

On the side, I'm building a deliberately vulnerable package registry as a teaching tool, working through the PortSwigger Web Security Academy, publishing writeups, and learning German (A2.1 at VHS Treptow-Köpenick).

Why "digital garden"

A blog rewards you for publishing finished things on a schedule. A garden rewards you for tending. Most of what I know about this field is still forming — some notes here are seedlings, some are growing, and a few are evergreen. All of them get revisited when I learn more.

Elsewhere

Videos on YouTube, shorter thoughts on TikTok and Instagram, longer essays cross-posted to Substack, and code on GitHub. All under @edensdigitalgarden.