Kenny La
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Kenny
La.

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About me

I'm a Computer Science student at Florida State University.

Outside of code, I enjoy skateboarding, drawing, playing guitar, piano, and chess. I believe the best engineers are endlessly curious people first.

I'm actively looking for career opportunities where I can work on meaningful problems and grow fast alongside sharp people.

SchoolFlorida State University
DegreeB.A. Computer Science, 2026
LocationTallahassee, FL
StatusOpen to opportunities

Projects

01 —
Real-Time Data Telemetry & Stream Analytics Platform

A distributed microservices platform built with Java and Spring Boot that ingests and processes live financial telemetry with low latency. Employs Apache Kafka for event-driven asynchronous streaming, dynamically computes in-memory rolling metrics (SMA, VWAP, Min/Max), and exposes REST APIs and WebSockets to stream updates directly to an interactive Chart.js dashboard.

Java Spring Boot Apache Kafka WebSockets REST API
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02 —
Autonomous Security Log Analytics Engine

A high-performance SIEM log analytics platform built with Java 17 and Spring Boot 3 to ingest, process, and aggregate 100,000+ raw network security log entries in real time. Integrates embedded DuckDB via JDBC to execute in-memory columnar OLAP SQL queries with sub-second latency, and features an interactive SIEM dashboard built with React 18, Vite, and Recharts.

Java 17 Spring Boot 3 DuckDB React 18 Vite Recharts REST API
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03 —
Linux Kernel Elevator Scheduler

A concurrent elevator scheduling algorithm implemented as a Linux kernel module, with three custom system calls added to a self-compiled Linux 6.16 kernel. Uses kthreads, mutexes, and kernel linked lists to manage concurrent passenger requests, and exposes real-time elevator state and statistics to user-space through a /proc interface.

C Linux Kernel Concurrency
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04 —
Medical Practice Management Charting System

A full-stack medical charting application built with .NET MAUI, supporting CRUD operations for patients, physicians, and appointments. Includes sorting algorithms, validation logic, and color-coded UI elements, structured with the MVVM pattern and AppShell navigation.

C# .NET MAUI MVVM
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05 —
Chess

A C# WPF chess application implementing standard chess rules, legal move validation, and game-state management, with a clean separation between game logic and UI. Handles check, checkmate, stalemate, castling, promotion, and piece movement logic.

C# WPF XAML
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Skills

Languages
Java
JavaScript / JSX
C++
C#
C
Python
SQL
Bash
HTML / CSS
MIPS
Relevant Coursework
Data Structures, Algorithms and Generic Programming I & II
Discrete Math I
Computer Organization
Full-Stack App Dev with C#
Web Apps Dev
Software Engineering
Operating Systems
Programming Secure, Parallel and Distributed Applications
Machine Learning in Biological Problems
Computer Security Fundamentals
Tools & Tech
Spring Boot 3
DuckDB
React 18 & Vite
Apache Kafka
Docker
Git & GitHub
SSH / linprog
Linux
Virtual Machines
Concepts
In-Memory OLAP Analytics
Event-Driven Microservices
REST APIs & WebSockets
CPU scheduling
Virtual memory & paging
Concurrency & sync
Kernel modules & syscalls
Networking protocols
Relational databases

Contact

Let's build
something.
Open to work.