Summary
Kelan I is a software engineer based in Mountain View with eight years of experience building performance-sensitive systems in C++, Java, JavaScript, and Python, and currently expanding into Rust. He has shipped reliability and scaling improvements at YouTube’s Trust & Safety team and previously implemented high-throughput, real-world solutions at Provisur and Google—where he parallelized binaries and improved cache strategies to prevent crashes. His cloud and automation work at Amazon reduced onboarding from weeks to minutes using AWS Step Functions and CDK, reflecting strengths in both systems design and operational automation. A self-taught programmer with a longstanding interest in game programming, he pairs low-level engineering chops with a habit of documenting interfaces and processes to cut technical debt and speed delivery.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Punahou School
Master of Science - MS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science - MS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering at University of Hawaii at Manoa
English, Japanese