Kevin Niechen
Principal at 8VC
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Niechen is a Principal based in San Francisco with a decade of experience building and evaluating sophisticated software and AI systems across startups and large tech firms. He blends hands-on engineering—working on search ranking at Neeva, model training at Airbnb AI Labs, and distributed consensus in Azure Security—with investing and operator support for AI/software companies at 8VC. His background spans production ML, infrastructure, and systems design, with a CS honors degree from the University of Maryland. Kevin has a track record of moving research-grade models and distributed protocols into reliable production services, and now leverages that operational expertise to advise and scale portfolio companies. Notably, his career arc crosses deep platform work and early-stage product formation, giving him a rare perspective of both building and backing technical founders. He is motivated by systems-level problems and enjoys digging into algorithms that make large-scale systems robust and efficient.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science (honors), B.S., Computer Science (honors) at University of Maryland
Github Skills (68)
gymnasium10
algolia10
q-learning10
gitbook10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
markdown9
ruler9
utterances9
campus9
bioinformatics9
algolia-search9
reinforcement-learning9
github-pages9
knn9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kevchn/fivethree-spa
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
kevinniechen/go-concurrency-patterns
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Golang concurrency patterns from Rob Pike's 2012 Google I/O talk
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
golangconcurrencypatternsconcurrency-patterns
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