Summary
Doug Kang is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building highly distributed, data-intensive systems across major tech firms and startups. He currently contributes to engineering at Apple while advising web applications at SimInsights, blending production-grade backend expertise with hands-on data science skills. His background includes leading machine teaching efforts at Uber ATG and architecting ad-serving platforms at Yahoo and AdBrite that handled billions of impressions, giving him deep operational knowledge of scale, performance and security. Doug pairs a UCLA CS degree with an MIDS from UC Berkeley, and brings a knack for reverse-engineering complex systems and turning them into more efficient, auditable pipelines. Based in Saratoga, CA, he is comfortable moving between low-level systems work (C++, Java, Netty) and modern data stacks, making him a pragmatic bridge between engineering and analytics.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Information and Data Science, 3.87, Master of Information and Data Science, 3.87 at UC Berkeley School of Information
High School, High School at Leland High School
B.S., Computer Science and Engineering, B.S., Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles