Summary
Kevin Hong is a Group Tech Lead at Asana with a decade of engineering experience building growth and adoption experiences and leading teams through product-first scalability challenges. With dual degrees in Computer Science and Statistics from UIUC, he blends algorithmic rigor and machine learning intuition with practical backend and data science expertise. Kevin rose through Asana from intern to tech lead, shipping First Experience initiatives that optimize new-user conversion and onboarding at scale. He has hands-on experience across platform and shipment systems from internships at Flexport, Jump Trading, and RetailMeNot, indicating comfort with both low-latency systems and applied ML/NLP. Based in San Francisco, he pairs mentorship and cross-functional collaboration with a track record of turning research-oriented CS foundations into production-ready features.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Statistics, Bachelor's degree Statistics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign