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Cole Killian

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Highlights

Jump Trading May. 2023 - Present
Quant Developer #full-time
Finding opportunities and executing on them.
  • Asking why and doing the obvious thing.
Jump Crypto June. 2022 - August. 2022
Software Engineer #internship
Built new crypto trading infrastructure.
  • Golang and Geth became close friends of mine :)
Glow Savings Oct. 2021 - May. 2022
Founding Engineer #startup
Glow Savings is a defi prize-linked savings account that combines the best elements of a regular savings account and prizes to make saving effective, fun, and potentially life-changing. It offers an effective APY of 20%, and distributes 1000 prizes up to $1M+ to its depositors for free once per week. Reached 1.5M in deposits.
  • Product.
  • Smart contracts.
Lunar Assistant Oct. 2021
Software Engineer #project
Lunar Assistant is a Discord bot that helps with the community management of NFT communities on the Terra blockchain. Quickly set up NFT community voting, private channels for those with certain types of NFTs, and public whitelists for mints. Live in 100+ Discord servers with 10000+ users. Won the $10k NFTerra first place prize.
  • Designed and built the discord bot for managing Discord roles based on Terra wallet holdings (Discord.js, Terra.js, Firestore).
  • Built the web app for linking discord accounts with Terra wallet addresses (Nextjs, Firestore, Vercel).
  • Wrote the docs for onboarding users and admins to the Lunar Assistant (Gitbook).
Moon Paper Scissors Sept. 2021 - Oct. 2021
Software Engineer #project #game
A rock paper scissors pvp cryptocurrency gambling website built on the Terra blockchain.
  • Developed the smart contracts for facilitating the game mechanics (Rust, Cosmwasm).
  • Built the frontend for playing Moon Paper Scissors (React, Nextjs, TailwindCSS, Terra.js).
  • Developed some pixel art for the game assets.
Perkify July. 2021 - Dec. 2021
Co-creator #startup #project
A b2b saas that makes it easy for businesses to offer subscription services like Spotify, Netflix, etc to their employees as a company benefit. Helps businesses with hiring, employee satisfaction, and employee retention at a low cost.
  • Demo
  • Coded the backend for managing business stripe subscriptions and perk groups (Nodejs, Express, Firebase Functions, Stripe).
  • Build the admin dashboard through which admins manage their employees and their benefits (React, Material-UI).
Study Together Jan. 2021 - May. 2021
Tech Lead #startup #project
Offering focused study sessions to the largest student community on Discord.
  • Coded the api for interacting with user profiles and statistics data (Quart, SQLAlchemy, Aioredis, Discord.py).
  • Built the dashboard used by 1000 users per day for checking their study statistics.
Sweater Planet Jan. 2021 - March. 2021
Software Engineer #startup
Building custom product lines for your team.
  • Architected and deployed a kubernetes cluster to serve the backend microservices (Kubernetes, Kustomize, Google Kubernetes Engine).
  • Deployed the frontend applications (Google Cloud Run).
  • Dockerized the frontend and all the backend microservices (Docker, Docker Compose).
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for the backend/frontend to build and deploy docker images automatically (Github Actions).
Artifai Mar. 2020 - Feb. 2021
Co-creator #project
Making it easy for anybody to create art with neural‐style and have it printed on a poster/canvas. Users created 10,000 artifaications.
  • Demo
  • Architected the backend for performing neural-style (Google Cloud Computing and Firebase Functions).
  • Developed the user authentication and social databases (Firebase, Firestore, and Node.js).
  • Built the user interface.

Completed

Novospace January 2023
Co-creator #project
Novo Space brings peace and mind to a chain near you with reversible ERC20s.
Chira Protect November 2022
Co-creator #project
Chira Protect offers tooling for NFT communities to defend themselves from mercenaries. Won the $4k worldcoin best overall prize.
McGill AI August. 2021 - Feb. 2022
Podcast Cohost #project
The McGill AI Podcast hosts exciting conversations about artificial intelligence and its interdisciplinary applications.
  • Cohosted episodes.
Cisco May. 2021 - Sept. 2021
Software Engineer #internship
Writing software on the Cisco CX Cloud team.
  • Earned intern of the month for his positive team-player attitude, leadership skills, and outstanding performance.
  • Designed, built, and deployed an internal dashboard for accessing split feature flags that removed confusion surrounding feature flags and became a part of the Cisco CX Cloud team’s workflow (Angular, Split, Express, AWS, Circle CI).
  • Configured OpenAPI generator to generate api clients that saves frontend engineers time and energy when interacting with backend apis (OpenAPI Generator, bash, jq).
Gamma School May. 2021 - Sept. 2021
Co-organizer #project
Co-organized a group home in the bay area that hosted 10 people for the summer.
  • Organized for daily group dinners.
  • Interviewed candidates for the group house.
  • Managed room assignments and finances.
Crypto Ponies Oct. 2021
Software Engineer #project #hackathon
Built a crypto kitties clone called crypto ponies as a way of learning about ethereum, solidity, and nfts.
  • Constructed the web interface for viewing and buying crypto ponies (Nextjs, TailwindCSS, Vercel, solidity, web3.js).
NeuroTech Feb. 2020 - Nov. 2020
Software Engineer #research #project
Creating a non-invasive forearm band that can predict which keys a user is typing without the need for a keyboard. Applications include augmented reality.
  • Constructed a dashboard for visualizing realtime ML model predictions and signal data (React).
  • Developed a pipeline for interfacing between ML model predictions and frontend applications (SocketIO, Python).
Trumperator Oct. 2020
Software Engineer #project #hackathon
Generated a bunch of fake Trump tweets using his Twitter tweets as training data. Built a web interface which presents you with real and fake Trump tweets, you try to figure out which is which!
  • Constructed a web interface for displaying real and fake Trump tweets and keeping score of how many you can guess correctly (React, Material-UI, Github Pages).
Harvard High Performance Computing Jun. 2020 - September. 2020
Software Engineer #internship
Writing software for helping users interact with the Harvard super computer.
  • Refactored the user account creation pipeline, increasing processing speed by 15 times (Python, Bash). View final presentation.
  • Coded performance tests which exposed high load averages on web server hosts. Identified a way to reduce it by 70% (Locust).
  • Built a dashboard that enables non technical users to understand the complex Harvard super computer status (React, Passenger, Node).
McGill oneCard Dashboard Sept. 2019 - Dec. 2019
Software Engineer #project
Scraping McGill oneCard transaction history and showing more analytics than on the official McGill oneCard dashboard.
  • Constructed an API for extracting student information from the official McGill oneCard dashboard using HTML request mimicking (Python, HTML Mimicking).
  • Built the dashboard (React, Material-UI).
Epigenosys Sept. 2019 - Dec. 2019
Software Engineer #research #project
Predicting a human’s age based on the methylation data extrated from their blood.
  • Achieved 100% accuracy plus or minus 10 years and >90% accuracy plus or minus 5 years (Keras).
  • Deployed a web interface that enables clients to interact with the machine learning model. Users can tune each of the 25 features and see how predicted age changes (Django).
  • Presented research at McGill Science and Synergy. Made the front page of Hacker News with over 100 upvotes.
Harvard High Performance Computing May. 2019- August. 2019
Software Engineer #internship
Writing software for helping users interact with the Harvard super computer.
  • Deployed a web interface that enables hundreds of clients to view, request, or terminate their storage allocations (Django).
  • Designed a mysql database model for tracking storage allocations and storage transactions (MySQL).
Facebook To Instagram Bot Jan. 2019 - June. 2019
Software Engineer #project
Bot that automatically copies posts posted on Facebook to Instagram.
  • Built the bot to automate my job of copying posts from Facebook to Instsagram (Facebook Graph API, Instagram API, Python).
Aspine Jan. 2019 - June. 2019
Co-creator #project
Open Source project that updates the user interface for Aspen, a grade checking service, with many new features and improved aesthetics. Preferred by 50% of students.
  • Built the dashboard (Tabulator, jquery).
  • Constructed an API for extracting student information from Aspen using HTML request mimicking (Node, HTML Mimicking).

Unfinished

Bookpod July. 2021
Co-creator #project #startup
Bookpod aimed to solve the problem of meaningful connection and reading accountability at the same time. It provides a service for matching people who want to read the same book and would experience meaningful connection with one another; then Bookpod facilitates a mini bookclub for these people to get to know one another over the course of a couple weeks. Similar in some aspects to lunchclub.
  • Built the typeform for conducting user research.
  • Performed live cold approach interviews on Stanford campus.
  • Developed the product vision.
Libravos Sept. 2019 - Feb. 2020
Co-creator #project #startup
Lemonade for phone insurance. Instead relying on a flat payment model for phone insurance, build an AI actuary which calculates insurance premiums on an individualized basis.
  • Dobson Cup Submission
  • Built a basic NLP chatbot as a proof of concept for helping users understand their insurance policies (Rasa, Python, Docker, AWS)