Dallas Klein

Software Engineer | Entrepreneur | Finance

A passionate software engineer and entrepreneur with an academic background in finance and actuarial science. Based in the United States, originally from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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About Dallas

Born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1998, Dallas Klein has built a diverse career spanning finance, technology, and entrepreneurship.

After earning degrees in Finance and Actuarial Science from Mount Mercy University, he moved to Denmark where he completed a Master of Finance.

His professional experience includes roles at JP Morgan as a software Engineer, and entrepreneurial ventures building a Sports Trading Exchange, Local Advent-style Christmas Calendar, and AI-driven prototype applications.

When not coding or building businesses, Dallas enjoys running marathons, fishing, reading biographies, traveling around the world, or getting 5-star reviews for dog boarding on the Rover app in Manhattan.

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Recent Projects

Check out my latest work and experiments. These projects showcase my interests in AI, finance, and software development.

Slack Clone

ReactReal-timeAIChat

GauntletAI Submission #2 - Day 5

Demo-ing file uploads and real-time messaging

Got a bit sloppy with my code structure while letting Cursor go at it

So adding features got a bit slow

Did a big refactor to clean it up and understand my architecture better- gonna definitely… pic.twitter.com/uAkD1cfvsJ
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) January 10, 2025

Slack Clone

ReactReal-timeAIChat

Week 2 GauntletAI Demo - Putting AI in my messaging app

1. AI Workplace search
2. Create clones that have specific context based on uploaded docs, and then mention them in channels to hear their perspective or get info from the docs pic.twitter.com/ofy0jYkhnM
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) January 17, 2025

Group User Testing

UXTestingAICollaboration

Today's update on my Group User Testing App

Much more of an MVP today than yesterday

Students/Engineers have a full overview of their features and any of the testing data around it

Testers have simple tools to upload video examples of them trying out the features with a queue… pic.twitter.com/by2vot4DVA
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) January 23, 2025

Group User Testing

UXTestingAICollaboration

Put an AI Assistant in my Group User Testing app that can do quite a bit of the functionality of the website through chat

Here's my take on AI Agents:
- Give them a bunch of tools (access to your apis basically)
- Get them the right context from your data
- Create clear prompts… pic.twitter.com/sXcSWMtfte
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) January 31, 2025

CuteFootball

GameSportsAnimationInteractive

🎶 Swifties - this one's for you 🫵🏻

Find the cutest🔥 player in the Super Bowl and get your Super Match! https://t.co/BFrGOkwLhG pic.twitter.com/xfwIGEuGEB
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) February 9, 2025

HomeYum

FoodAICookingMobile

HomeYum 🥘📱

Helping turn those bookmarked tiktok recipe videos into meals on your plate! 🍲

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I go through the purpose, vision, and goals of my app, along with some of the core user stories

and a demo showcasing the features

then finishing with the plan to integrate AI… pic.twitter.com/oapREoWtVE
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) February 8, 2025

HomeYum

FoodAICookingMobile

Check out how my AI features work on HomeYum 🥗

- OpenAI GPT-4o
- OpenAI's Whisper for audio transcription
- Flux Schnell through Replicate for image gen pic.twitter.com/oWWszj1oPx
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) February 15, 2025

Siddhi

WellnessMindfulnessHealthMobile

Siddhi has been helping me go from 'wanting' to actually meditating

She does this through a simple reminder email each morning with a helpful insight

and following up if she doesn't hear back.

Kobe Bryant said, "I meditate every day. It's like having an anchor."

Try it out ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/ocZogfJ1s4
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) February 26, 2025

QuikShortz

VideoSocialCreativeMobile

Working on automating the process from topic input to short clip generation with a customizable amount of control over the process

This video started with 'Kobe Bryant'

was refined to:

"Search for long-form interviews featuring Kobe Bryant post-retirement, focusing on his… pic.twitter.com/Ptbv7yy5iR
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) February 20, 2025

QuikShortz

VideoSocialCreativeMobile

QuikShortz [WIP]

Generate Short Form Videos from any topic

1. Refine your topic
2. Select YouTube videos to create your shorts from
3. Receive your shorts pic.twitter.com/LWTwRFqTwL
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) February 22, 2025

Juni

EducationLearningInteractiveWeb

Autobiography agent aka Social Media for old folks pic.twitter.com/HqPQudmCEx
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) March 1, 2025

Daily Kinnections

GamePuzzleWordsDaily

First version of a Connections clone that I've been working on

Daily Kinnections

Excited to keep improving this. Started a few hours ago so definitely more optimizations to make.

Check it out here: https://t.co/KdE97fJJU0 pic.twitter.com/DP5cRyGP0u
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) October 29, 2024

Local Christmas Calendar

SeasonalLocalInteractiveCommunity

🎄 Made a fun little Christmas advent calendar to support local businesses in your community

Add the website you want to highlight on a specific day and share the link with your friends pic.twitter.com/w1HdWZfCRO
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) November 20, 2024

Mindy Meal Planner

AIFoodPlanningHealth

My small but lovely community of users who I've been cooking for seems to be growing

Just crossed 200 active users who love the daily meal plans

This is just a side project but I'm having a blast with it pic.twitter.com/b8MwvvZFkG
— Dallas Klein (@bydallasklein) December 16, 2024