Kevin Lu
Software Engineer at PayPal
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Lu is an infrastructure software engineer with eight years at PayPal, focused on building reliable, scalable systems in Java and Scala. He contributed to Apache Kafka (including KIP-351) and has hands-on experience integrating Kafka, Couchbase, and Elasticsearch into production pipelines. Early work includes extending PayPal’s web crawler and delivering a Node.js UI that exposed RESTful services, demonstrating full-stack fluency beyond core backend systems. A UC Berkeley CS graduate and former CS lab assistant, he pairs strong academic foundations with practical mentorship experience. Based in San Jose, he brings a pragmatic approach to distributed systems and data messaging, often working where platform reliability meets developer tooling. Notably, his career shows a consistent trajectory from classroom helper to contributor on widely used open-source infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at Lynbrook High School
Github Skills (11)
react9
typescript8
ui-components7
react-components6
antd6
ui-design5
visuals5
language-design4
api3
npm-package2
microsoft1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bliu5379/PayPal-PowerBI-Custom-Visuals
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 13 pushes in 1 month
NoanHu/paypal-kpi-donut-chart
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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