Calvin Kong
Director Of Engineering at NIO
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCalvin Kong is a Director of Engineering with 15+ years building highly scalable distributed systems and data pipelines for both startups and large tech companies. He has led global engineering organizations of 80+ engineers across the US, China, and India, driving product-focused architecture and execution that enabled 400% traffic growth and successful post-acquisition integrations. Calvin has a track record of creating platforms from the ground up—from a PaaS that reached 2 billion API calls/day and a successful startup exit to enterprise-grade DevSecOps and toolchains for EV software at NIO. He combines hands-on systems design (cloud services, CI/CD, data pipelines) with strategic consolidation of toolchains to improve developer productivity and modularize large codebases. Comfortable in both early-stage startups and $100M+ SaaS products, he pairs technical depth with rapid operational turnarounds that restore customer confidence. An engineer at heart, he often surfaces developer-facing tooling as the lever for large-scale software agility and cross-region delivery.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Penn State University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (57)
proxy9
playfab9
iphone9
unity3d8
api8
windows8
minecraft8
mineflayer7
csharp7
json7
xray7
xamarin7
v2ray7
android7
sdk7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hungwunfai/bedrock-server-update
Mar 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
hungwunfai/v2ray_auto_ip_allocator
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 push, 3 branches in 1 month
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