Kevin Kwon
Software Engineer at Stripe
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Kwon is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable systems across fintech and cloud platforms, currently contributing to Stripe's engineering efforts from Vancouver. A UBC graduate with a combined Computer Science and Physics degree, he has a background that spans high-throughput data systems at Amazon (handling billions of transactions daily) to security-focused work at Imperva and cloud services at AWS. He brings full-stack fluency—having shipped React front-ends, Scala and Java back-ends, and integrated services with AWS infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. Kevin pairs rigorous, physics-trained problem solving with practical production experience, evidenced by a research internship that improved STM measurement SNR and by shipping video and content platform features in industry internships. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex analytics needs into observable, maintainable systems and to bridge research-grade thinking with production constraints.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS Physics, Associate of Science - AS Physics at Kwantlen Polytechnic UniversityBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics and Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, Korean
Github Skills (6)
react5
css5
javascript4
viewer3
backend3
nodejs2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kkwon1/portfolio
Dec 2019 - Oct 2022
Personal portfolio
Contributions:78 commits, 18 PRs, 63 pushes in 2 years 10 months
cssjavascriptreactreactjs
kkwon1/APODViewerService
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
Backend service for APOD Viewer
Contributions:37 PRs, 60 pushes, 40 branches in 2 years 7 months
backendnodejsapodbackend-serviceviewer
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