Career Profile

I am a Software Engineer with a passion for backend development and cloud computing. I have experience working with Java, Python, and JavaScript, and I am currently learning AWS and Google Cloud. I am looking for a full time position where I can continue to grow my skills and contribute to a team.

Experiences

Full Stack Developer Intern

2025 - Present
All Classical Radio, Portland, OR

Part time internship working on the website and backend systems for a non-profit classical music radio station.

  • Developed a Python script to automate the process of updating the website’s playlist feeds, reducing manual data entry time by approximately 65 hours annually
  • Implemented a web scraper to find broken links on an internal research website, reducing the number of intern clicks by 95%

Computer Science Teaching Assistant

2024 - Present
Oregon State University, Remote

Part time position assisting students in the Web Development course at Oregon State University.

  • Supported over 800 students in Web Development by providing structured guidance resulting in 15% increased grades
  • Led weekly lab sessions and facilitated learning through code reviews and constructive feedback on JavaScript, React, and Assembly assignments, helping students meet key project deadlines and goals

Coding Instructor

2023 - 2024
Coding with Kids, Portland, OR

In person instructor for a coding course for kids aged 8-12.

  • Taught foundational computer science concepts to students, achieving a 100% course completion rate by setting defined projecmilestones and regularly assessing progress
  • Established a collaborative learning environment, clearly communicating course goals and tracking each student’s advancemenensuring that all participants met project commitments and successfully graduated from the program

Projects

Here are some of the projects I have worked on. Click on the link to view the projects on GitHub.

kenziegains - Java Spring Boot application with AWS CI/CD Pipeline that allows users to create and sign up for fitness courses. AWS Elastic Beanstalk, DynamoDB, Lambda, API Gateway, S3. Final project for Southern New Hampshire University's SWE Backend Development Certificate.
Portfolio Website - A full stack MERN application built as a final project for CS 290 Web Development.
Card Shop Manager - Python, Flask, Jinja2, and SQL application built as a final project for CS 340 Intr to Databases

OSS Contributions

Open Source projects that I have contributed to. I would love to contribute to more projects in the future.

Scrapy - A fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.

Skills & Proficiency

Python

Javascript

SQL

Java

Google Cloud

Amazon Web Services

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