Kyle Coon

Projects

How's The Market

Website visuals

Full-stack web application made to track trends in the computer science job market. LinkedIn webscraper made with Python, website made with React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Express. Hosted on AWS.

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The Story of Draden

Release trailer

Resource Management, Real Time Strategy game made in 7 weeks on a 4 person team. I implemented player movment and abilities, upgrade shop, farming mechanics, and sound design.

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Keep Your Composer

Gameplay highlights

2D Puzzle Platformer where you compose the levels! The notes become your platforms as well as the soundtrack for that level. Made in 3 days for the 2024 Game Maker's Tool Kit Game Jam.

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Zelda10

Gameplay highlights

Legend of Zelda mod made in three weeks. Allows Link to transform into defeated bosses and use their abilities. I implemented enemy AI, player movement and abilites, and custom level design.

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Chess Digitizer

Conversion of image to digital representation

Computer vision project that digitizes the layout of a real chess board to be analyzed or played on lichess.com. This was achieved with a corner-recognition algorithm and neural network written in Python.

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Terminle

Gameplay with randomly generated word

Recreation of the popular New York Times web-based word game "Wordle" that can be played locally in a computer terminal with two gameplay options. The program was written in C++ with a text-coloring library.

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Scalable Search Engine

Search query and results

Search engine similar to Google/Bing that ranks page results with an inverted index that was constructed by web-crawling about 3,000 webpages. The inverted index was made with a MapReduce program written in Python and the website was constructed with standard web app framework.

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This Website!

Landing page for this website

Instead of using a website builder, this entire website was hand-written. While there's room for improvement, I was able to learn many important principals of responsive web design.

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Education

School: University of Michigan -
College of Literature, Science,
and the Arts

Graduation May 2024

GPA: 3.651

Degrees: B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Film, Television, and Media

Skills

Software Engineering:
C++, Python, Java, Git, Unit Testing

Web Development:
HTML, CSS, React, AWS, APIs

Video Game Development:
Unity, C#, UI Design, Audio Design, Play Testing

Notable

Classes

  Computer Game
  Development: Design
  and development of
  several Unity-made
  computer games as well
      as understanding of the
                  video game
                      industry

    UI Development:
    Concepts and techniques
    for designing computer
    system user interface
    to be user-friendly

Web Systems: Practical
implementations of both
front-end and back-
end web systems and
technologies

    Computer Security:
   Assessement, prevention,
   and exploitation of
   modern web security
     designs and their
        faults

Computer Vision:
Solving of visual
problems with the use of computers by means of machine learning and
deep learning

Leadership Experience

U of M Men's Glee Club

Vice President

Head of social team for the second oldest collegiate choir in the country. Responsibilities include organizing all social events for a 100+ person organization, leading orientation for new members, and tracking attendance.

The Friars

President

Leader of the oldest acappella group on the University of Michigan campus. Responsibilities include scheduling concerts and gigs, coordinating collaborations, and arranging vocal scores.