Summary
Kent Tam is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building elegant full-stack solutions, currently contributing to core products at Snapchat in Los Angeles. He has a strong backend and frontend skill set honed through prior roles at Facebook and earlier software development work, grounded in a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UCLA. Kent favors thoughtful, maintainable designs that simplify complex problems and scale in production environments. His career spans large consumer platforms where performance, reliability, and user-facing polish matter equally. Based in LA, he brings both startup agility from early-career roles and the discipline of operating at hyperscale. Outside of work, he enjoys approaching problems with concise, creative algorithms rather than brute-force engineering.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering - Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering - Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles