Summary
Kevin Lam is a software developer based in Vancouver with eight years of hands-on experience building full-stack and front-end web applications for government, healthcare, and enterprise SaaS. He has shipped user-facing features at scale at Shopify—shaping frontend architecture, React/TypeScript interfaces, and GraphQL integrations used by tens of thousands of merchants—and has production experience with deployment and monitoring practices. Kevin pairs web UI expertise (React, Vue, Angular) with backend skills (FastAPI, PostgreSQL) and cloud deployments on GCP and AWS, having built ML pipeline tooling and public-facing platforms in regulated domains. His background in microbiology and biotechnology gives him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective that informs careful, data-driven engineering for health and science applications. Currently contributing to consultancy-style projects at Tetra Tech after a Full Stack role at Porton Health, he’s comfortable moving between prototyping in Figma and delivering robust, accessible production software. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic, detail-oriented, and adept at translating complex domain requirements into maintainable code.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - B.Sc., Combined Major in Computer Science and Microbiology and Immunology, Bachelor of Science - B.Sc., Combined Major in Computer Science and Microbiology and Immunology at The University of British Columbia
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Dogwood Diploma, Dogwood Diploma at Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School
English, Chinese, French