Kevin Kao
Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolKevin Kao is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience building large-scale backend, search, and ML infrastructure for LinkedIn Jobs and Talent Solutions. He leads cross-functional technical initiatives—designing systems that serve 100M+ daily requests—while reducing operational cost and improving scalability through platform-level solutions like real-time feature generation and ML model validation. Comfortable wearing engineering, product, and management hats, he has a track record of unifying multiple orgs around single high-performance search clusters and automating data ingestion for search and ranking. A Berkeley EECS alumnus, he combines rigorous academic grounding with hands-on production engineering, and he’s open to robotics opportunities that leverage his systems and ML infrastructure expertise.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyPiedmont Hills High School
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Github Skills (41)
rest-api8
api8
discovery8
rest8
jax-rs8
json8
asynchronous8
restful-api7
swagger7
restful7
scalable7
architectures6
semantics4
document-processing4
classification3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kk415kk/moocRP
Mar 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:290 commits, 87 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 4 months
kk415kk/kk415kk.github.io
Aug 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:22 pushes in 3 years 10 months
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