Kyle M. Niewiada

Education

BS, Computer Science; Grand Valley State University

• GPA: 3.503

Experience

Full Stack Developer at Gordon Food Service

• Augment support by building a machine learning model to correctly detect chat sentiment and react accordingly
• Manage and upgrade older Terraform/Helm configurations for transient workloads in Kubernetes clusters
• Design and build an asynchronous live chat solution inside of an app to work with a non-asynchronous chat provider
• Build multilingual functionality with Gordon Now Chat to serve customers across the US and Canada

Associate Software Engineer at Gordon Food Service

• Architected and built a chatbot that switches seamlessly between AI and a human when necessary
• Provided unique digital dialogue opportunities for customers to place orders with an AI agent using only their voice
  • Product Overview
  • Testimonial #1
  • Testimonial #2
• Captured customers’ interests with a recipe tool enabling food organization and reducing food waste
• Created custom integration jobs between different company platforms

Consultant at Hepfer & Associates, PLLC

• Import and investigate raw data from company databases
• Search for behavioral anomalies and trends
• Present data in a meaningful way

Coach for Grandville RoboDawgs Weather Balloon Program

• Assisted underclassmen RoboDawg students transitioning to leadership positions in the robotics program
• Directed students to program Python on Raspberry Pi units and collect data from their weather balloon launches

AP Computer Science Tutor

• 1 on 1 tutoring in preparation for the AP Computer Science Exam

Software Developer Intern at Blue Medora, LLC

• Developed Oracle Enterprise Manager plugins

Supervisor for RoboDawgs community camps

• Instructed up to 40 campers during the busiest week
• Delegated jobs between nine employees
• Conducted new building renovations/repairs

Technical skills

Jekyll

• Setup, modify, and maintain this Jekyll website
• Source code

Experience with:

• Java, Angular, React Native, Kotlin, SQL, HTML, CSS

Familiar with:

• Ruby, C, C++, C#, Python, Liquid, Markdown, TI-Basic

Honors

Eagle Scout

• Received silver, gold, and bronze palms
  • Requires an additional five merit badges (beyond the required 21 for Eagle) for each palm, and a three-month observance between each palm. This must occur before a scout’s 18th birthday to be eligible.

Recipient of Grand Valley Music Department Scholarship

Projects

Monitoring Electric Dryer State Using a CT Clamp

• How I now monitor my aging 240V electric dryer with a CT clamp to send a notification when the cycle is complete
• Blog post

Fixed Controller Input on Xbox Emulator Project

• Traced through machine instructions to discover a compiler was padding an extra byte into memory causing many games to reject controller input
• Blog post
• GitHub PR

Enhanced the Jekyll SEO Tag Plugin

• Contributed to the open source Jekyll SEO Tag plugin introducing new functionality with SEO tags
• GitHub PR

Rebuilt Zelda Save File

• Rebuilt a Zelda Ocarina of Time save file after discovering the checksum algorithm
• Used a GameShark with a parallel port to interface with the N64 cartridge, dump the ram, and recalculate the checksum
• Open source checksum calculator
• Blog post

Restoration with 3D Printing

• Restored a vintage amplifier using 3D printing
• An old piece for my 1970s amplifier broke and I used 3D printing to complement my restoration project
• Blog post

Reverse Engineered my Desk Remote

• Reverse engineered remote codes to my Steelcase electric desk
• Discovered and documented the remote codes with explanations to each setting
• Blog post

Activities

University Arts Chorale & Cantate Chamber Ensemble

Grand Valley Computing Club

Piano

Volunteer at Festival of the Arts Screen Printing

Updated August, 2022