Kevin Hong
Lead Product Engineer at Upwork
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Hong is a staff-level full stack engineer and leader with 11 years of experience building web applications, AI-powered search, and evaluation platforms that drive measurable business outcomes. Currently Lead Product Engineer at Upwork, he architected and scaled MSG, an LLM-as-a-Judge offline evaluation platform now required for Search & Recommendations A/B tests and responsible for millions of evaluations. He has a track record of shipping self-serve AI search products, improving operational metrics (including a 70% reduction in support resolution time and 400% uplift in warehouse pick capacity), and establishing engineering processes and CI/CD pipelines across startups and enterprise teams. Comfortable across React, TypeScript, Node, Python, Kubernetes, and AWS, Kevin blends product-minded engineering with hands-on implementation. Based in Bellevue, WA, he balances technical leadership with creative pursuits—he’s a weekend woodworker and musician—bringing pragmatic craftsmanship to software design.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Ohlone CollegeMaster of Science (MS) Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
react-hooks7
higher-order-component7
react7
chord6
forms6
to-do6
react-native6
npm-package4
css4
transpose4
formik3
angular3
npm3
javascript3
chord-diagram3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
KevinHong913/ng2-chord-transposer
Apr 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 3 PRs in 8 months
transposenpm-packagechordangular2angular
KevinHong913/BandMan
May 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 release, 51 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
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