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Wilson Overfield looking down while wearing a navy cap and Italia jacket

NOW

Working on side projects and improving my video and content creation skills.

STUDYING

WORKED WITH

I'm Wilson. I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and my family's roots are in Kenya. For as long as I can remember I've liked making things, and these days that covers a lot of ground: apps, tools, events, videos, and whatever else an idea turns into.

A lot of it has been software. I co-founded , an app that helps students figure out where to go to college. Building it taught me more than any class has: how to talk to the people you're building for, how to ship something rough and keep making it better, and how to work closely with a co-founder. [A line about what FindU did or where it ended up.]

I've also worked at and , and through UNL's I've done capstone projects with and, this year, . [A sentence on what you worked on or took away from one of them.]

The rest doesn't fit neatly on a resume. I put on events, make videos, and [play the occasional set]. Lately I've been putting more time into video and content, mostly because I like the craft of it. To me it's all the same thing: an idea I can't stop thinking about, and figuring out how to make it real.

Whatever it is, I like when the things I make end up helping someone, or are just fun to share. [A closing line on what you're looking for or open to right now.]

  1. [Year]Growing up in Omaha[A line about home, family, and Kenyan roots.]
  2. [Year][First thing you made][The project that got you hooked.]
  3. [2024]Co-founded FindUA college-decision app, built with a co-founder.
  4. 2025Summer SWE internship[Where, and what you worked on.]
  5. [2026]mkrs[What mkrs is and this night.]
  6. Summer 2026A summer in San FranciscoGoing to events until I make it.
  7. 2026Friend DJ setShot and cut a set video for a friend.
  8. Oct 2026Halloween partyMade the teaser for our Halloween party.
  9. 2026–27Hudl capstone[What the capstone is about.]

Raikes School

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Class of 2027 · Lincoln, NE

The Raikes School of Computer Science and Management is an honors program at UNL that pairs computer science with business, and has students build software for real companies along the way.

  • Design Studio capstones with Allstate and Hudl
  • FindU went through Raikes Startup Studio

FindU

Co-founder, Head of Engineering

Jan 2024 to 2026 · Lincoln, NE

I co-founded FindU, an app that helps students figure out where to go to college, and led engineering: the iOS app, the recommendation engine behind it, and a dashboard schools used to reach the students they matched with.

  • $120K+ raised, team of 3 engineers
  • 700+ students on the iOS app
  • Piloted with 3 schools
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Capital One

Software Engineer Intern

Summer 2025 · McLean, VA

I spent the summer on a team building a new way for business clients to approve wire transfers. I worked on the backend in Go on AWS and on the React screens clients use to send wires.

  • Event-driven approvals on Lambda, Fargate, and SQS
  • Raised test coverage from 40% to 95% so it could ship

Kiewit

Software Engineer Intern

Summer 2024 · Omaha, NE

My first internship. I worked on a mobile app used across the company, built with React and Ionic, and on the themes for three of Kiewit’s websites.

  • A mobile app with 10K+ downloads
  • Core Web Vitals up 25% across 3 sites

Hudl

Capstone project

2026 to 2027 · Lincoln, NE

[What the capstone is, and what you’re building with Hudl’s team this year.]

Allstate

Capstone project

Fall 2024 · Lincoln, NE

A capstone with Allstate’s team. We built a dashboard for exploring the output of a fine-tuned language model, in Dash and Plotly.

  • Load times down 70%+ on datasets of 5M+ rows