Grant Gollier

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

• Architected and implemented a serverless service on native AWS to reduce development dependencies on third parties for the Alexa Communications Account Linking team
• Extended integration tests to be more robust, reducing service deployment times from hours to minutes

AWS LambdaDynamoDBCloudFormationCodeDeploy

FanThreeSixty

Software Engineering Intern

• Stood up new API service for interacting with a complex Elasticsearch document layout
• Improved and extended system for linking individual customer records from disparate sources into one unified profile
• Created graphical tool for improving technical and non-technical users' understanding of complex linking structure of customer documents

JavaJavaScriptElasticsearchReactPostgreSQL

Research Funding Network

Full Stack Web Developer

• Developed web app to facilitate funding of research projects and exchange platform for token trading
• Integrated web app with Ethereum blockchain smart contracts

TypeScriptJavaScriptAngularNode.jsPostgreSQLInfluxDB

KU Department of Mathematics

Teaching Assistant

• Instructed over 120 students on a weekly basis during office hours
• Graded homework and exams in a timely, consistent manner

TeachingDifferential Equations

KU Department of Physics and Astronomy

C++ Programmer

• Analyzed data from CMS experiment at CERN to solve Hierarchy Problem using ROOT Data Analysis Framework
• Coordinated with global team members to achieve consistent coding standards and models

C++ROOTData Analysis

Argus

Homelab Status Monitoring

Created service for monitoring server status and events and reporting alerts to Slack
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Image Classification Tool

Tool for dataset creation

Built tool for creating image classification datasets after being unable to find a similar tool when creating datasets
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Events Everywhere | Best Use of Twilio

HackMidwest

Built the message parser and state control flow for a SMS based, multi-user event scheduler, winning best use of the Twilio Platform
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Sipmson's Diversity Index as a Heuristic for Constrained Optimization

Research Project

Independently discovered the use of Simpson’s Diversity Index as a combinatorial optimization heuristic for generating groupings. Deployed solution at Bishop Seabury Academy using Simulated Annealing. This discovery is especially useful when applied to groupings of people in teams or items in a portfolio where diversity is crucial
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