Hey! I'm Kirsten
I work as a software quality engineer at Red Hat on the Telco verification team. Previously I was a full stack software engineer at SwitchFrame.
I also recently graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a bachelor's in mathematics.
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Projects
These are some of my side projects. I'm pretty bad about finishing them though.

Nombrilo
Generate block distributions for Minecraft worlds. Uses custom serde support for SIMD-accelerated NBT parsing.
- 2024 ·
- Rust
- serde
- SIMD

kirsten.pl
This website! Built using Astro and Tailwind CSS, hosted on Cloudflare Pages.
- 2024 ·
- Astro
- Tailwind CSS
- Cloudflare Pages

serve
Simple file server with firewalld integration.
- 2023 ·
- Go
- firewalld

agent-sim
An agent-based simulation of disease spread. I used this mostly as an opportunity to explore a dynamic quadtree to handle collision detection between agents.
- 2022 ·
- Rust

smath-classes
Unofficial course catalog for the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics.
- 2022 ·
- JavaScript
- Python

Research in ML-based Translation
Modified transformer model to show improvement in machine translation by using joint part of speech tagging.
- 2021 ·
- Tensorflow
- NumPy
- Python

Covid Wave Predictor
Made for the 2021 UniHacks hackathon, this project predicts the likelihood of a Covid wave in a given area using a custom neural network.
- 2021 ·
- Tensorflow
- Python
- d3.js
- TopoJSON