Kalen Wallin

Software Engineer 👨‍💻

I like to build products that improve people’s lives 🛠️

Year	Description
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. View UNL Diploma or View UNL Transcript. - Started freelance designing and developing a harvest reporting and inventory management website for Wallin Farms. - Started freelance graphic designing for Mystic Rhoads Productions.
2022	- Studied abroad at Reykjavik University in Iceland during the Spring semester. 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 during the summer and in-office part-time during the Fall semester. - Worked as a Teaching Assistant in Software Engineering (CSCE 361) in the Fall.
2020	- Joined University of Nebraska Honors.
2019	- Started studying at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Fall - Graduated from Chase County High School as the valedictorian in the Spring. View CCHS Transcript

Featured Experiences 👀

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

Posts

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. 🌽

Posts

Web Developer - Sandhills Global

Training for full-time web dev role

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

Computer Science Curriculum Developer - Initialize RSO

Initialize

Jan 1, 2020 → May 1, 2020

Career

School

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 you can call portfolio hell. Learn more in the posts below 👇 I also made a glorified spreadsheet for a weightlifting routine 💪

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