Danny Le Kim
Senior Software Engineer at Lyft
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDanny Le Kim is a Senior Software Engineer based in Montreal with nine years of experience building reliable, high-performance backend systems and shipping product-focused features at companies like Lyft and Zola. He has a track record of measurable impact—improving solver serialization (10x speed, 5x compression), reducing p99 latency by 55%, and integrating open-source tooling to automate image rendering and cut costs. Comfortable across the stack, Danny has led architecture and integration work on large-scale payment systems, improved caching and platform throughput, and owned on-call responsibilities to maintain service quality. He pairs pragmatic engineering with mentorship, having guided interns and led cross-functional product roadmaps and employee resource initiatives. Trained in physiology with a CS minor from McGill, he brings an analytical, systems-minded approach that surfaces efficient, data-driven solutions. Colleagues describe him as a curious problem-solver who seeks continuous learning and practical optimizations that scale.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Health Sciences, Associate's degree, Health Sciences at Marianopolis CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Physiology, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physiology, General at McGill University
Vietnamese, French, English
Github Skills (4)
laravel4
php3
frontend2
react2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dannylekim/billsnap
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
BillSnap: The Bill Splitting and Roommate Management System
Contributions:48 PRs, 68 pushes, 50 branches in 2 months
management-systemphproommate-managementbill-splittingsplitting
dannylekim/kantaskyReact
Mar 2018 - Aug 2019
React Front-End for Kantasky
Contributions:34 PRs, 69 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 5 months
frontendreact
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