Kam Leung
Founder at AI Trade Arena
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKam Leung is a founder and full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-friendly web products and open-source tooling from San Francisco. He co-founded Papercups, an open-source live customer chat used by thousands, and led front-end, email integration, and file upload efforts while also shaping routes and invite flows. At Linen he’s focused on making Slack/Discord communities searchable and LLM-friendly, bridging UX work with search and data accessibility. His background spans backend and DevOps at scale—contributing to Cloud Foundry BOSH with access control, integration tests, and logging improvements—and hands-on roles at Amazon, Pivotal, and startups. Comfortable shipping across iOS, Java/Python, Ruby on Rails, Go, and cloud platforms, he blends product intuition with implementation speed. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to move between UI polish and platform reliability, enabling developer-focused products that scale.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Code and talk to users, Code and talk to users at Y Combinator
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (30)
bosh10
javascript10
back-end-development10
css10
authentication10
typescript10
nextjs10
ruby10
api10
authorization10
typescript-types10
test-integration10
typescripts10
backend10
react10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/bosh
Jun 2015 - May 2016
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:210 commits, 8 PRs, 156 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kam primarily contributed to improving the codebase by defining read scopes, adding integration tests, and refactoring code to enhance performance and security. They made changes to the API controllers for deployments, releases, stemcells, and cloud configurations, with a focus on access control and authorization. Additionally, the user worked on the UAA (User Account and Authentication) identity provider and added logging for better debugging, thus contributing to both backend functionality and system reliability.
foundryboshpcfchainengineering
papercups-io/papercups
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Open-source live customer chat
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 208 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Kam primarily contributed to the front-end development of the open-source live customer chat application. Their work includes making UI improvements by adjusting message box sizes, fixing login redirection issues, and implementing features for adding and displaying company names during user registration. Furthermore, they were involved in setting up account invites and modifying the application's routes. They also worked on email integration and file upload for the platform.
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