Kai Chen
Angel Investor at First Row Partners
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Chen is an engineering executive, entrepreneur, and angel investor with deep roots in cloud infrastructure—he was a founding engineer on Microsoft Azure and later co-founded and served as CTO of Alauda.io, bringing over two decades of experience building hyper-scale, enterprise-grade cloud platforms. Now based in Bellevue, he advises and invests across cloud, AI, and health-tech startups, participating in prominent groups like Alliance of Angels and serving as a resident expert at AI2 Incubator. Kai combines rigorous academic training in CS and mathematics (Caltech, UW, Williams) with hands-on systems design, having early research experience in DNA computation and complexity theory that informs his pragmatic approach to scalable systems. Known among founders as "the most helpful and least annoying person on your cap table," he frequently bridges technical strategy and go-to-market execution for early-stage teams.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science & Engineering, M.S., Computer Science & Engineering at University of WashingtonCalifornia Institute of TechnologyB.A., Computer Science & Mathematics, B.A., Computer Science & Mathematics at Williams College
English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Spanish, French
Github Skills (44)
kubernetes10
mesos10
docker10
sdn10
kubernetes-monitoring10
charts10
networking10
scheduling10
go10
sdk10
helm10
network10
openvswitch10
k8s10
testing9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cimomo/website
Jan 2018 - Jul 2018
Kubernetes website and documentation repo:
Contributions:53 pushes, 87 branches in 6 months
kuberneteskubernetes-dashboard
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