Summary
Kieran Kaempen is a software engineer with a Master’s in Computer Science from UIUC and eight years of hands-on experience across internships and a current role at Coalition. He brings full-stack fluency—Python, Django, React, D3/Plotly, GraphQL, MongoDB and Scala/Akka—coupled with strong mathematical problem-solving skills honed through competitive coding and puzzles. His internship projects include building a Microsoft Teams integration for Sentry, optimizing interactive visualizations at Databricks, and creating data ingestion pipelines and dev-tooling bots at Rally Health, demonstrating both backend systems and user-facing product sensibilities. Comfortable moving between languages and paradigms, he focuses on pragmatic design decisions that improve scalability and user experience. Based in Windermere, Florida, he’s eager to learn new technologies and contribute to impactful engineering teams.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign