Summary
Donovan Kitten is a pragmatic software analyst with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack .NET applications, machine learning pipelines, and embedded electronics projects. He has delivered production systems for flight simulators, developed a WPF audio mixer for simulation sound tuning, and engineered an OCR + GCN ensemble for receipt extraction using AWS Textract. Comfortable across SQL Server, Django/React, and low-level hardware, he bridges software, data science, and physical design—often prototyping features end-to-end from PCB and Arduino-driven LED displays to backend services. A proven mentor and instructor, he focuses on modular, testable code and enjoys translating complex requirements into reliable, field-ready solutions. Outside work he channels the same curiosity into audio processing, 3D design, and competitive soccer.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Computer Science, High School Diploma Computer Science at Lake Land College
Bachelor's degree Statistics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Statistics and Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign