Kevin Lange
Senior Software Engineer, Self-Serve at Indeed
Chiyoda, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Lange is a Tokyo-based senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building backend systems, infrastructure, and internationalization features across companies like Indeed, Yelp, and MUJIN. He blends low-level systems work in C/C++—including device drivers and motion-planning support for industrial robotics—with high-scale backend architecture for advertising and self-serve platforms. Kevin has led cross-border launches and i18n efforts, shipped Japan-specific mobile features, and moved between hands-on engineering and team leadership roles. An active tinkerer, he also contributes playful open-source projects such as a terminal-rendered nyancat with color modes and uptime reporting, showing a taste for polished tooling as well as production-grade systems. Based in Chiyoda, he pairs practical release engineering and deployment experience with a long history of solving text, data ingestion, and internationalization challenges.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Hiroshima Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Japanese, Spanish, American Sign Language
Github Skills (6)
c1710
c1110
animation10
terminal-emulator8
telnet8
terminal-application8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
klange/nyancat
Nov 2011 - Jan 2020
Nyancat in your terminal, rendered through ANSI escape sequences. This is the source for the Debian package `nyancat`.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:122 commits, 12 PRs, 19 pushes in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily worked on enhancing the `nyancat` project, a terminal-based animation. They added a color mode selection feature, allowing users to choose between different color schemes for the animation. The user also implemented and improved the text displayed during the start sequence. They also added the functionality to display the amount of time that the program has been running.
nyancatnyan-catescape-sequencesansi-escapelinux
kuroko-lang/kuroko-wasm-repl
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:57 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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