Carson Kempf

At Charter Communications, I implement monitoring and research and patch security vulnerabilities on systems supporting 120+ TB of data. I also architect and maintain high-availability PostgreSQL clusters with Patroni for internal applications.

As a Database Administrator Intern at Charter Communications, I built Python and Bash automation that reduced server maintenance time by 70%. I was also a finalist in a company-wide innovation competition for a custom data visualization application.

At RootsInn LLC, I solo-engineered modular Django applications with end-to-end infrastructure for payment processing and booking. I cut AWS cloud costs by 31.8% through database optimization, schema refinement, and server scheduling.

I also architected a serverless backend platform with authentication, secrets management, and user dashboards at $0 infrastructure cost, and published two npm packages for AI agents to initialize and manage projects. For a chess AI engine, I designed a graph-based board representation using minimax search, alpha-beta pruning, and weighted evaluation heuristics.