Kalen Wallin

Web Developer 👨‍💻

Problem Solver, Solution Automator 🛠️

Year	Description
2025	- Gave a talk at NebraskaJS’s Lightning Talk meetup in Omaha, NE in March.
2024	- Finished freelance graphic design contract for Mystic Rhoads Productions in April. Stuck around for a bit then left in November.
2023	- Graduated with honors and highest distinction from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics in August. View UNL Diploma or View UNL Transcript. - Started graphic designing for Mystic Rhoads Productions part-time in June. - Started designing and developing a harvest reporting and inventory management website for Wallin Farms part-time in August. - Started software development internship at Sandhills Global full-time in October. Promoted to junior position in December.
2022	- Studied abroad at Reykjavik University in Iceland from January to June. View RU Transcript - Worked remotely as a Django web developer for FarmAfield full-time from July to August.
2021	- Worked remotely as a Django web developer intern at FarmAfield full-time from June to August and in-office part-time from August to November. - Worked as a Teaching Assistant in Software Engineering (CSCE 361) from August to December.
2020	- Joined University of Nebraska Honors in January.
2019	- Started studying at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in August. - Graduated from Chase County High School as the valedictorian in May. View CCHS Transcript

Featured Experiences 👀

From high school until now I’ve worked on some cool projects that you can find below 😎

Posts

Talk: Notion as a CMS with React-Notion-X

Lightning Talk at NebraskaJS meetup in Omaha, NE.

Software Developer - Sandhills Global

Maintaining various existing internal and external facing Web Apps and APIs.

Software Engineer - Wallin Farms

Creating automated harvest reporting and inventory management tools for Wallin Farms.

My team’s video game for UNL Game Development Club in Spring 2021

Web Developer Intern - FarmAfield

FarmAfield connects retail investors with agricultural producers.

May 24, 2021 → Aug 12, 2022

Godot Game Level Demo

Game Engine Architecture midterm project at Reykjavik University

Teaching Assistant - University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Software Engineering (CSCE 361) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Aug 23, 2021 → Dec 19, 2021

Career

Web Dev

School

Leveraging Generative AI

How I leverage generative artificial intelligence in my projects

Mar 25, 2023

Generative AI

baldorf

Developed this mobile game for my Senior Design project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for our client: Mystic Rhoads Productions

Aug 22, 2022 → May 9, 2023

Game Dev

Unity

School

Game Design: Competitive Mobile Games

My undergraduate honors and highest distinction thesis

May 16, 2023

School

Document

Working 💼

In 2014, I started working for my parents on their farm during the summers when I wasn’t in school 🚜 In 2017, I switched to Lifeguarding at the Imperial City Pool 🌊 Throughout my university career from 2019 to 2023, I had a series of internships and part-time jobs as a web developer at FarmAfield, a teaching assistant in a software engineering course, and a graphic designer at Mystic Rhoads Productions 👨‍💼 Once I graduated from university, I started freelance developing for Wallin Farms and freelance graphic designing at Mystic Rhoads Productions. 🌽 After 2 months of job search, I was hired by Sandhills Global as a Software Developer Intern where I trained for 2 months to be a full-time Software Developer.

Posts

Software Developer - Sandhills Global

Maintaining various existing internal and external facing Web Apps and APIs.

Software Engineer - Wallin Farms

Creating automated harvest reporting and inventory management tools for Wallin Farms.

Graphic Designer - Mystic Rhoads Productions

Designed Pigout Bucket game cards and Dirt Nap Dip recipe cards.

Teaching Assistant - University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Software Engineering (CSCE 361) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Aug 23, 2021 → Dec 19, 2021

Career

Web Dev

School

Web Developer Intern - FarmAfield

FarmAfield connects retail investors with agricultural producers.

May 24, 2021 → Aug 12, 2022

Lifeguard - Imperial Pool

Imperial Pool

May 22, 2017 → Aug 9, 2019

Career

Farmhand - Wallin Farms

At Wallin Farms during the summers and the Covid pandemic

May 1, 2014 → Jan 1, 2021

Career

Pet Projects 🎨

If you know me as a developer, you know I’ve spent a ton of time on portfolios I’ll never get back. A place I call portfolio hell. Learn more in the posts below 👇 I also made a glorified spreadsheet for a weightlifting routine 💪

Posts

I Rewrote My First Portfolio in Astro

And the performance gains were, dare I say, astronomical!

Weight Lifting Calculator

A glorified spreadsheet for the workout Built for Battle

Fun School Projects 🎓

Fun and school usually don’t go together, but somehow I’ve managed to connect gaming with school and games are a lot of fun 🎮😃

Posts

Game Design: Competitive Mobile Games

My undergraduate honors and highest distinction thesis

Developed this mobile game for my Senior Design project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for our client: Mystic Rhoads Productions

Aug 22, 2022 → May 9, 2023

Game Dev

Unity

School

Godot Game Level Demo

Game Engine Architecture midterm project at Reykjavik University

My team’s video game for UNL Game Development Club in Spring 2021

Talks

In the Fall of 2023, I started going to the following meetups: Lincoln AI, Lincoln.code(), and NebraskaJS. In Spring of 2025, I gave my first meetup talk at NebraskaJS as part of their Lightning round where there are several talks ranging from 5-15 minutes.

Posts

Talk: Notion as a CMS with React-Notion-X

Lightning Talk at NebraskaJS meetup in Omaha, NE.