Karston Kuciemba

Software Engineer III · FullBloom / CharacterStrong

• Designed a modernized authentication system (credentials, SSO, SAML, rostering) with unified MFA and session handling; wrote the sequence, flow and entity diagrams and the Jira initiative to lead the build.
• Led multi-organization user management across the platform, so administrators can add, remove, restore and manage users across entire districts.
• Made the rostering pipeline more scalable and reliable with distributed processing and locking, and fixed import and sync issues.
• Built an AWS Step Functions ETL pipeline for Clever, SFTP and ClassLink that syncs rosters nightly for hundreds of districts, processing millions of user and class records.
• Secured 26 legacy endpoints with user-based middleware, separate business-logic and data-access layers, and standard request validation.
• As an intern, built 23 pages and 88 components from Figma designs in React and TypeScript, and led the upgrade from Mantine v5 to v6.

TypeScript · React · Node.js · SQL · DynamoDB · AWS Step Functions

Software Engineering Intern · Kyndryl

• Built an internal full-stack app that computes risk profiles and investment opportunities for seller proposals, saving 1,350 hours and $200,000 a year.
• Automated billing for a client with over 6,000 servers, saving 120+ hours per quarter.
• Built an API that streams IoT telemetry in real time, plus a front end with login that opens a digital twin for live warehouse analytics and device location.

Payroll/Processing Assistant · University of Colorado

• Collected and organized hundreds of payroll documents (PDW, SSA-1945, I-9) a week, keeping them compliant with state and university rules.
• Did daily data entry for a range of clients and found ways to improve accuracy and efficiency with software.

Algorithmic Trading Platform · Solo

Signals, backtests and live trading in one place. An end-to-end platform that combines historical and real-time market data, technical indicators and SEC Form 4 insider transactions to generate systematic equity and options trading signals.

Python · Pandas · React · TypeScript · Alpaca · Schwab API · SEC EDGAR · Parquet

Spec to Tickets · Solo, used at work

From a product brief to a sized backlog. Large projects stall when nobody has broken them down. Writing the spec, drawing the system and slicing the work used to take days.

LLM tooling · Jira · Diagrams

Dog Shelter Database · Team project, Georgia Tech

From written requirements to a working shelter app. Design and build a working application for a dog shelter, starting from written requirements.

SQL · EER modeling · Normalization

HTTP Proxy · Solo

A multi-threaded proxy server for any browser. A proxy server that handles many browser requests at the same time, over both HTTP and HTTPS.

Python · Sockets · Threading

This desk · Solo

A portfolio you can poke at. Most portfolios are a list. I wanted one that shows how I build, and still lets a recruiter get the facts in 30 seconds.

You are looking at it. Try typing `help`.

TypeScript · Three.js · Vite · Web Audio

M.S. Computer Science · Georgia Tech

Part-time while working full-time.

B.S. Economics · The University of Texas at Austin