Summary
CS student at LSU building full-stack applications, cloud infrastructure, and quant research pipelines. Interested in software and finance. More work and writing at cadenlund.com.
Experience
Safety Alert Patrol, Nonprofit — volunteer and job matching platform serving organizations, schools, and retired veterans, Remote
- Designed and built a full single-page application including an interactive map-based matching system, real-time messaging, application workflows, and in-app notifications.
- Implemented OAuth 2.0 and multi-factor authentication (MFA) for secure volunteer and administrator access.
- Architected the backend with distinct HTTP, service, and storage layers; wrote tests across all layers with thorough input validation and meticulous error handling.
- Provisioned all AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible; built a CI/CD pipeline to automatically build, test, and deploy via Ansible on each release.
- Maintained separate production and staging environments, coordinating with stakeholders to demo features and gather feedback before release.
- Delivered the complete platform as the primary developer, from architecture design through production launch.
Self-Employed, Remote
- Designed and shipped 4 client websites including e-commerce storefronts and business landing pages using Next.js, Tailwind CSS, and shadcn/ui.
- Managed client relationships end to end: scoping, delivery, and post-launch support across multiple simultaneous engagements.
Frock Candy — Baton Rouge, LA
- Managed Google Ads campaigns, conducted keyword research, and performed on-page SEO optimization to improve organic search rankings and drive traffic.
Projects
- Built an end-to-end quant pipeline ingesting 5 years of OHLCV data for 12,000+ US equities from Polygon.io via AWS S3 into a TimescaleDB/PostgreSQL database.
- Engineered a custom alpha factor ("Price Compression") evaluated with Alphalens; long-short portfolio achieved a 2.5 Sharpe ratio in backtesting.
- GitHub-driven deployment platform on a K3s cluster provisioned on Hetzner Cloud, with containerized workloads, metered billing, log aggregation, automatic SSL, and a developer-facing dashboard.
Skills
Languages: Go, TypeScript, Python, C++, SQL ·
Frameworks: Next.js, React ·
Data/ML: NumPy, pandas, PyTorch ·
Infrastructure: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL ·
Other: CI/CD, OAuth 2.0, TimescaleDB, Git
Education
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science · Minor in Applied Statistics
LSU Asset Management Academy · Dean's List