Kevin Kristensen
PhD Candidate
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Kristensen is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at UW–Madison focused on databases, combining two years of industry experience as a software developer and data engineer at Epic with strong mathematical foundations from an MA in Mathematics. He builds reliable data-intensive systems and brings practical production experience from a large healthcare software environment to his research. Comfortable bridging theory and implementation, Kevin leverages real-world data engineering constraints to inform research questions and prototypes. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, he blends rigorous academic training with hands-on software delivery, positioning him to translate database research into deployable solutions.
2 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (19)
hashmap9
hashset9
cpp8
cuda8
hashtable8
pydata7
dataframe7
rapids7
gpu7
pandas7
python7
data-analysis6
dask6
opencl6
data-science6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kevkrist/warpcore
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
A Library for fast Hash Tables on GPUs (modifications for easier BF operations and support for GROUP BY logic)
Contributions:27 pushes in 27 days
kevkrist/ca_p3
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 6 days
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