Kai Song
Staff Software Engineer at Uber
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKai Song is a Staff Software Engineer in Berkeley with 15 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across research labs and large-scale cloud services. Currently leading Core Services Production Engineering at Uber, he drives reliability initiatives, incident response, and has productized fault-injection and traffic-replay platforms to prevent change-related outages. His background blends deep systems and HPC experience—CUDA-accelerated C++ libraries, cluster ops, and scientific web portals—with broad language fluency in Python, C++, PHP, Java and MPI. Kai’s career spans national labs and industry, where he pairs stakeholder-facing technical leadership with hands-on engineering to reduce outages and improve service resilience. Notably, he has repeatedly translated research tooling into production web and API services, demonstrating a talent for turning experimental code into safe, scalable platforms.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (6)
vagrant-plugin7
droplet5
vagrant2
virtualbox2
devops2
digitalocean1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ksong/invokebinder
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:193 pushes in 16 days
bindingdslmethodjava-dsljava
maronesy/gather
Jan 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:192 commits in 3 months
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