Kai K
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKai K is a Software Development Engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience, currently building optimization tooling at AWS Insights & Optimization. A Johns Hopkins computer science graduate now based in New York, Kai has progressed through multiple AWS internships into a full-time SDE role while also contributing as a course assistant in human-computer interaction and mobile UI courses. Outside core engineering, Kai has a strong mentoring streak—supporting high-achieving, low-income students through Matriculate and facilitating MIT’s MITES program—bringing empathy and communication to technical teams. He combines product-minded engineering (product owner and scrum-style team leadership on a disease modeling web project) with practical cloud monetization and optimization experience, making him adept at turning research and user needs into production systems.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityNorth Point High School
Chinese, English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
rendering10
haxe10
blender10
aws-lambda9
3d9
aws9
gdscript9
3d-engine9
top-down8
multiplayer8
game-engine8
wikipedia7
game-development7
spring-cloud-task6
amazon-kinesis6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ssreed/Network-Management-System-through-Web-Services
Nov 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:48 commits in 1 month
danilko/android_pos_system
Jan 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:5 commits in 9 months
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