SELECT * FROM developers WHERE name = "Kevin Durand" AND skills LIKE '%all%';
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Currently a student studying Computer Science at Columbia University.
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Student Teaching Assistant
Columbia Computer Science Department | Fall 2025
  • Assisted in teaching Advanced Programming in the C programming language
  • Held weekly office hours to support students in understanding the course material
  • Collaborated with professor and other TA to grade and review coursework
Research Software Engineer Intern
Voloridge Investment Management | Summer 2025
  • Optimize existing C++ algorithms in through performance analysis and benchmarking to improve runtime performance
  • Develop new features and enhanced legacy functionality of the existing quantitative finance algorithms
  • Researched new algorithms to refactor existing codebase features to improve scalability and reduce tech debt
Columbia History Lab
StartupDB | Sept. 2024 - May 2025
  • Created graph based database from 127 years of US diplomatic relations, extracting relationship triplets and linking metadata
  • Implemented user interface for access to AI model pipeline.
  • Implemented RAG model to retrieve information from knowledge graph implemented in Neo4j and Python
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Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Columbia University: The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science | 2022 - 2026
  • Relevant Coursework: Advanced Database Systems, Cloud Computing, Parallel functional programming, Computer Science Theory, Programming Language/Translator, Artifical Intelligence
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  • Implemented database level forking mechanism in Postgres to allow for virtual copies of a live database
  • Extended SQL interface for managing database forks for driver agnostic usage
  • Developed light-weight Copy-on-Write storage model for forked databases, allowing full read/write semantics
Project Lead
  • Created open-source embedded relational database following standard SQL specification
  • Implemented database built for concurrency and ease of use from scratch in golang
  • Interactive web interface for query analysis and visualization
  • Led project, organizing team meetings, and distributed tasks for contributors to work on
Robotics Competition
  • Training pacman agents using Deep Q-learning and NEAT-ai for neural network agents
  • Optimized AI model to play game of Pacman efficiently with respect to time and points acquired
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Relational Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL SQLite

NoSQL Databases

MongoDB Redis Neo4j

Tools & Technologies

Docker Git FastAPI

Programming Languages

Golang Python JavaScript C/C++ SQL Dart Java