biography
Hello! My full name is Kristopher Thomas Rollert, but most people call me Kris. I was born in Pasadena, but my parents moved my brother and me to South Pasadena right before I entered Kindergarten. I joined Boy Scouts in sixth grade and eventually became an Eagle Scout in twelfth grade. I have been hooked on computer science since sophomore year of high school when I took my first computer science class. I am currently a third year at University of California, Santa Cruz and have declared majors in both Computer Science and Computational Mathematics. In my free time, I am always trying to improve myself. Right now that means learning server side coding and teaching myself how to play the guitar. To relax, I play ultimate frisbee or challenge a friend in a game of chess. Back in South Pasadena, I help my brother run the Los Angeles Chess Social and spend lots of time with my dog. Want to find out more about me? Send me an email in the contact section below!
projects
- all
- programming
- web development
graph-based dynamic route planning ...
july to september, 2018
While working for the University of Southern California as a research assistant, I worked with a post graduate who had gotten a research grant from Huawei. We were tasked with researching and developing a way to quickly and optimally match drivers to multi-restaurant food delivery orders. I co-authored the paper titled “Graph-based Dynamic Route Planning for Collective Customer Matching”. My time at USC was spent tackling conceptual problems with my advisor and programing the experiments in python.
aqustic
april to june, 2017
My Introduction to Software Engineering class tasked our team of four with developing a project using Scrum development practices. I took on the role of project leader on our team and came up with the idea for aqusitc. Aqustic is a web application that allowed party-goers to collaboratively select music by adding songs to queue and liking/disliking songs so that everyone has a say in choice of music. We developed our web app using Node.js, express, and the Spotify API.
kyphs
march, 2017
During the hackathon ‘Hacktech’, my team and I created a 3D printed set of sensors placed that was made to line the spine of the user. From the device, we could gather data that would be transmitted onto a web application. This device was intended to give information to people who have poor posture and could be used for correctional and medical use. Half the team worked on created the device and getting data where the other half of the team worked on the web application. My teammate and I used Node.js, HTML, and CSS to create a site that displayed the data from the device in a clear, user-friendly manner.
student media
september 2016 - present
I have been working at UC Santa Cruz’s Student Media as their web developer since the end of 2016. This means working on and managing more than fifteen newspaper and magazine’s websites along with Student Media’s. Though I focus more on backend, I do often have to work with the front end of all of these sites. All of them use WordPress and SquareSpace which is fairly simple, but occasionally I am tasked with going beyond the drag and drop features and have to implement my own plugins or styling using JavaScript and PHP.
chess social
may 2017 - present
My brother and I have created and are co-presidents of the Los Angeles Chess Social. The Chess Social is a weekly event hosted at various swanky bars all across Los Angeles. There is live music, good company, and plenty of chess sets. Because I have some experience in it, I have also taken on the role of webmaster. The site is created from scratch, using on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The site is still a work in progress as we decide we would like to take the site. Make sure to drop by the Chess Social on Tuesday nights! Find out more information on the Chess Social site.