About Me

My name is Kwame Ampadu-Boateng, I am a Software Engineer that likes sharing the things I create in my free time and writing about different things that cross my mind.

Education

Vanderbilt University

I graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2023 with a major in Computer Science as a QuestBridge Scholar.

Favorite Classes: Intermediate Software Design (I was a TA for this class), Foundations of Machine Learning, Database Management Systems, and Economic Growth

Experience

Stripe - Software Engineering Intern

May 2022 - Jul 2022

Decreased likelihood of compliances incidents at Stripe by comprehensively reassigning SOX compliance tickets to respective parties in different situations

Decreased toil for engineers when collecting evidence for compliance audits by adding ability to connect compliance evidence to controls after creation

Languages/Technologies: Go, Git, Bazel

Google - Software Engineering Intern

May 2021 - Aug 2021

Saved up to 5 hours of engineering time per incident needed to manually recover databases that had been accidentally deleted by creating an API for database owners and managers to prevent accidental deletion of their databases

Languages/Technologies used: C++, SQL, Google Cloud Platform, Mercurial

Google - Student Training in Engineering Program (STEP) Intern

May 2020 - Aug 2020

Deployed fully responsive web application with two other interns that allows users to create accounts using Google Single Sign-On, create and share flashcards for a University in the United States, and search for any set of flashcards that is stored by the database

Languages/Technologies: Java Servlets, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud Datastore, HTML, JavaScript, CSS (Materialize framework), Maven, Google Cloud Platform, Google Cloud Shell