Kaden Weber
Education
BS in Computer Science, with Arabic Minor
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
September 2016 – April 2020, GPA: 3.6
Selected Coursework:
- Deep Learning
- Software Engineering
- Web Programming
- Technical Communication
- Image Processing
- System Programming
- User Experience
- Computer Security
Professional Experience
Contract Software Engineer
San Diego Association of Governments
Remote, February 2020 – Present
- Built a python framework from scratch for a real estate supply allocation model tailored specifically for a client county’s data
- Managed geo-datasets with Pandas and ArcPy
- Created cross platform builds for new and old modeling packages
Co-Founder and CTO
Canary Safety
Provo, UT, January 2020 – Present
- Interviewed potential customers to continually tailor business model and user experience
- Designed MVP enterprise software product offering
- Audited possible application architectures
- Designed and developed a secure web app with Vue.js and AWS Amplify (GraphQL, Lambda, Cognito and DynamoDB)
- Awarded $16,000 as a Miller New Venture Challenge winner
Research Assistant
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT, January 2019 – April 2020
- Developed a prototype Android app to detect figure skating jumps with a simple algorithm using real-time data from an IMU
- Created a WearOS app for exporting smartwatch motion sensor data to use for ML training data
- Evaluated machine learning algorithms best suited to detect and differentiate figure skating jumps
Engineering Intern
Showpad
Chicago, IL, May 2019 – August 2019
- Wrote and tested production swift and Objective-C code for an enterprise iOS application
- Implemented an experimental microservice in Kotlin’s Ktor framework and deployed it with Docker and Kubernetes
WordCruncher MacOS Developer
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT, January 2018 – January 2019
- Caught up an industry-specific solution to a modern MVC architecture in Swift by translating thousands of lines of C++
Projects
BYU Mars Rover Team — University Rover Challenge
September 2019 – April 2020
- Developed and tested a rover for a world-wide competition with 30 of the best prepared students from Brigham Young University
- Maintained a mid-sized codebase, implemented source control standards and best practices, performed code reviews, wrote unit tests
- Automated networking and rover setup using bash and python scripts, used ROS messaging to connect Cameras, GPS, and other sensors
- Improved autonomous search algorithms for finding waypoints and recognizing markers
Ascendant Anxiety Tracker
January 2020 – April 2020
- Working to quickly bring iOS app to market, wrote production quality code using newest frameworks like SwiftUI and Combine
- Implemented local datastore using GRDB
Crocker Innovation Fellow
January 2019 – December 2019
- Chosen as one of five juniors to represent the CS major at BYU and created innovative products as part of a cross-disciplinary entrepreneurship program
- In a two week sprint, wrote a remote control app for a scale model 3-wheeled omni wheelchair that sends wheel commands to an arduino over bluetooth and reports RFID tags to a server
Personal
- Brigham Young University Heritage Scholarship Recipient
- Stanford HSSC alumni
- Second-degree black-belt - helped teach younger kids for five years
- Fluent in German, conversational in Arabic