Major: Bachelors of Science in Computer Science
School: University of Colorado at Boulder
Graduated: May 2023

My name is Kevin Loaiza, I am the first generation in my family line to be able to go to university. I come from a long line of farmers and it has been a great blessing in order to be able to get an education. I hope to be able to present to you a visual colorful presentation of my digital portfolio so that you get a better understanding of who I am. Along with it will be a list of projects that I am proud of and enjoyed working on over the years while attending the university. Paired with my project will be programs that I have used and I am comfortable utilizing. There will also be a pdf of my resume and links to my social media platforms that give a better perspective of who I am in a public space.

Linux and AWS

I used to volunteer a lot at my middle school and elementary school. I was a teacher's assistant and I found it pleasant teaching others. I mainly worked with students who were in the process of learning English and would grade their work or help translate school work. I still keep in contact with some of the teachers and it has been fulfilling even going back and seeing familiar faces.

A academic project that was completed during my senior year for my capstone involved working with NASA and JPL. The goal of the project is to model our solar system while projecting a travel path of a spacecraft through our solar system. I mainly worked with SPICE which helped extract data from kernels and assisted in the creation of the API that would do the calculations of the spacecraft and planets.
Front-End Github Repo
Back-End Github Repo

Using a messaging platform called Discord we made a bot which is an extension of the application's capabilities. Now this bot integrated our very own gacha game and tracked the crypto Dogecoin with an API. All of these functions are called through commands called in a text-channel. This project completed in a team setting of 4 people. My job was to mainly work on the front-end of project which involved creating a website for our bot and making AJAX calls to pull images of the cards one could collect.
Discord Bot Github Repo

Another project that I have worked on this year was with a partner for object oriented programming. We made a snakes and ladders game that was made in intelliJ where we used Java. The purpose of the game is to reach tile 100 in a 10x10 grid where there are various obstacles that could increase the number of tiles you go up, which are stairs or go back if you land on the head of a snake. Each players takes turn rolling a die until they reach the final tile.
Snakes and Ladders Project Repo