Kevin Kao
Wayland, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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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
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Double Major: Biochemistry and Psychology, B.S. Double Major: Biochemistry and Psychology at University of Massachusetts AmherstMaster of Science (M.S.) Post Graduate Courses Biomedical Sciences, Master of Science (M.S.) Post Graduate Courses Biomedical Sciences at Barry University
Chinese
Github Skills (14)
asynchronous8
micro-framework5
machine-learning3
information-extraction3
simulation3
java3
clustering3
analytics2
natural-language-processing2
document-classification2
topic-modeling2
simulator2
visualization1
visualizations1
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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