Kevin Grafstrom | Software Developer

An Artistic Approach to Software Development

My name is Kevin Grafstrom. I combine my experience studying computer engineering at the University of Toronto and working as a software developer with the creativity I developed in a rock band.

👇🏻Recent Projects👇🏻

Projects

Job Application Copilot

I wrote a Python program using Selenium to automatically fill out job application forms. I still choose the jobs I apply to very carefully, verify everything, and enter the creative parts manually.

Personal Finance Analyzer

I wrote a program to parse transaction csv files from CIBC using Pandas. I exported the Pandas data frames into a PostgreSQL database. Then I created views to group the transactions into categories and calculate a total for each category.

This Portfolio Website

Other than the stock images, which I got from stockphotos.com and have a license to use, I created this website entirely by myself using Next.js, React, Tailwind CSS, TypeScript, and NGINX.

Music Trends Prediction Database

A friend and I queried the Spotify API to transfer data for the most popular artists into a PostgreSQL database. We used linear regression to determine the fastest growing artists and genres.

FPGA Processor in Verilog

In a computer hardware course I took at U of T, there was a competition that involved implementing a processor on an FPGA using Verilog. Designs were ranked by the number of assembly instructions they completed per second. My teammate and I scored second place, which gave us a bonus 4.5% on each of our final grades.

👇🏻Work Experience👇🏻

Work Exp.

Work

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FORMA.AI

Software Engineer

May 2022 - Aug. 2023

I replicated a client's data pipeline from Danube into an Oracle implementation with PostgreSQL. I also reduced load times for the calculations table by 80% with React, TypeScript, and Django. When one of our clients transitioned from a data warehouse to a data lake, I adapted our internal ETL pipeline so that our results remained accurate and consistent. During this process, I built and debugged Docker containers running on Amazon Web Services EC2 and ECS. I also implemented a user interface for adding manual adjustments to commissions paid. For other clients, I wrote Spark data transformations to run on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.

Junior QA Developer

July 2017 - Aug. 2018

I wrote more than 30 automated tests for the Indigo website using Java and Selenium. I collaborated with other developers to choose the best test cases. I also performed A/B testing on internal search ordering, increasing the search click through rate 15%. During this time, I wrote more than 20 articles on Confluence explaining our testing methodology.

👇🏻Education👇🏻

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Engineering

Graduated June 2022

My favourite course was "Communication and Design" because we made a Google Maps clone and wrote documents explaining our design choices. This allowed us to develop our technical and writing skills in the same course. I also found " Computer Networks" very useful for understanding server and client communication in web development.