Welcome to my portfolio, styled after the Steam client. I enjoy software engineering mostly
in backend, but I do full-stack — my interests are machine/deep learning, artificial
intelligence, and networking. I also love to play games, hence the Steam theme. Browse my
Library to see what I've shipped, or check the Store for my resume.
SENIOR · CS · N.C. A&T
Expected graduation: May 2027
Achievement Showcase
Recent Activity
Working on my Senior Capstone Project — AggieGPT In progress
In Phase 3 of the OilfieldSim project In progress
Continuing undergraduate research in deep learning — discovering and implementing pipelines for class-level localization and object detection Ongoing
Building PrivacyGuardAI for a class project in the cybersecurity space In progress
Currently Learning
Agentic WorkflowsLangGraphMCP ServersA2AOpenXR
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Kirsten Hefney — Software Engineer Edition
Available for full-time & new grad roles
About This Developer
I'm from Charlotte, North Carolina. Analyzing problems and building solutions is what
makes me tick. Outside of code, I like getting exercise, being outdoors, and cycling.
I love playing video games — my favorite of all time is Minecraft — and I love working
on side projects for anything I find interesting.
Partnered with a co-intern to build the full-stack architecture for two apps now deployed to production. Designed agentic pipelines and orchestration workflows, including RAG agents over vector databases, custom MCP servers, REST APIs, and Angular front-ends backed by SQL Server and Kafka. Took on team-lead duties: ran meetings and FDE sessions, and led knowledge-transfer and documentation efforts.
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Research Assistant — N.C. A&T State University
May 2025 – Present · Greensboro, NC
Conduct interdisciplinary research under faculty supervision: literature review, dataset development, and building/evaluating ML and deep learning models. Leading a cross-device VR/wearable system for biometric emotion detection, and a prompt-based multimodal privacy-detection pipeline using SAM 3.1 for segmentation.
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B.S. Computer Science — N.C. A&T State University
Expected Graduation: May 2027
Chancellor's List (Fall 2024, Spring 2026) and Dean's List (Spring 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025). Completed the Machine Learning Specialization on Coursera (DeepLearning.AI).
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Undergraduate Teaching Assistant & ACM Mentor
Aug 2024 – Present · Greensboro, NC
TA'd intro Python programming (Aug 2024 – Jan 2026) and mentor peers through ACM, helping plan and run CS-focused events. Also won 1st Place at the Capital One Black and Hispanic Tech Summit Hackathon (1 of 40 selected students) with Project Emotifin.
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Guides & Links
The best way to reach me is email. I'm also active on GitHub and LinkedIn — feel free to browse my repos or connect.
