Kevin Jin
Founder, CMO at Stealth Startup
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Jin is a founder and product-minded technologist based in Atlanta with eight years of experience building full-stack .NET systems and go-to-market products. He cofounded Circo to streamline offline lead capture for field marketers and sales teams, and now leads a stealth startup as Founder and CMO, blending product, growth, and technical execution. Kevin has hands-on backend systems experience—his open-source contributions include performance and stability improvements to the widely used OpenZFS project, highlighting expertise in storage internals and low-level optimization. His background spans finance and investing internships at Truist, Icarus Fund, and Marubeni, giving him a rare combination of engineering fluency and capital-markets sensibility. Comfortable moving from databases to web apps, he focuses on shipping pragmatic solutions that bridge technical depth with commercial impact. Colleagues would describe him as a builder who quickly turns complex operational problems into scalable, productized workflows.
8 years of coding experience
Highschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Saint James SchoolBachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General at Emory University
Github Skills (13)
c1710
system10
systemd10
concurrent-programming10
filesystem10
openzfs10
concurrent10
c1110
sys10
performance-optimization10
concurrency10
debug8
debugging8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openzfs/zfs
Jul 2021 - May 2022
OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 5 commits, 20 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to optimizing the ZFS file system's internal processes. Their work included modifying the txg_kick process to use a per-txg dirty data tracking system and introducing parameters related to write log data size limits. Additionally, the user addressed performance issues by fixing inflated quiesce times during zil_commit() and autotrim operations. These changes indicate a focus on improving ZFS's efficiency and stability.
openzfstarballlinuxfreebsdsystem-software
jxdking/ADOExt
Nov 2019 - Oct 2023
A simple object mapping library. An extension for IDbConnection and IDbTransaction.
Contributions:2 PRs, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
objectmappermappingsmappingcsharpmapper
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