Kevin Du
Tech Lead Manager at TikTok
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Du is a seasoned tech leader with 9 years of experience building and scaling distributed fulfillment and warehouse management systems across high-growth e-commerce environments. He has led teams at TikTok, Flexe, and Amazon to launch production fulfillment networks, decompose monoliths into microservices, and cut operational overhead (e.g., halving on-call tickets and reducing warehouse setup to 10 days). Technically versatile from Java/J2EE to C#, Python-adjacent infrastructures, and ML-driven experimentation pipelines, he blends hands-on engineering with strong product and hiring instincts. Based in Seattle, he excels at translating complex fulfillment workflows into reliable, scalable services and mentoring engineers through career growth. A detail worth noting: he’s delivered both low-level protocol integrations and high-level orchestration features, which gives him a rare end-to-end view of supply-chain software systems.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Concordia UniversityBachelor of Engineering (BEng) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Software Engineering at McGill University
English, French, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
kafka10
self-healing10
apache-kafka10
workload10
apache10
operation10
kafka-cluster10
java10
kafka-consumer10
scala10
single-page3
web-application3
large-scale2
scale2
frontend2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kidkun/cruise-control
May 2018 - May 2020
Cruise-control is the first of its kind to fully automate the dynamic workload rebalance and self-healing of a kafka cluster. It provides great value to Kafka users by simplifying the operation of Kafka clusters.
Contributions:4 PRs, 634 pushes, 142 branches in 1 year 11 months
operationcruise-controlclusterskafka-clusterrebalance
kidkun/kafka
Jun 2019 - May 2020
Mirror of Apache Kafka
Contributions:31 pushes, 15 branches in 10 months
kafka-streamsapache-kafkaapachekafkajava
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