Summary
Kevin Pho is a Full-Stack DevSecOps Software Engineer and System Administrator with 11 years of hands-on experience building secure, production-ready systems for startups and research labs. Trained at MIT with dual BS degrees in EECS and Music, he blends rigorous engineering—containerized microservices, Kubernetes CI/CD, AWS, TimescaleDB/MongoDB, GraphQL auth flows—with creative problem solving from music and AV production. At his current remote startup he rebuilt a decade of legacy systems into a modular, version-controlled architecture, handled sensitive DoD-bound data via Tailscale+nginx+EC2, and drives frontend feature delivery in React/TypeScript while owning deployments and automation. He’s equally comfortable prototyping distributed ML/secure MPC research as he is tuning RAID layouts, and he enjoys exploring exotic musical tunings (31EDO) and audio signal processing in parallel with systems work. Persistent about learning and teaching, Kevin mentors students, contributes to campus research projects, and thrives in small teams where cross-disciplinary skills accelerate impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Engineering, High School Diploma Engineering at California Academy of Mathematics and Science
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bret Harte Elementary
Gompers K-8
English, Spanish, Vietnamese