Kevin Qiu
Senior Software Engineer at Spotify
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Qiu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of full-stack and backend experience, currently leading API development at Spotify and shaping client applications and parts of the supply chain. He brings a strong site reliability and DevSecOps background—practicing infrastructure as code with Terraform, Packer, Docker, and Jenkins—and has production experience running video platforms, data pipelines, and orchestration tools like Airflow and Databricks. Kevin has owned large codebases and shipped scalable services at companies from Stem to Disney, and contributed to real-time peer-to-peer video streaming tooling (nile.js) integrating getUserMedia, MediaRecorder, and WebTorrent. Based in Los Angeles, he enjoys system-level work and is focused on deepening expertise in DevOps, resource optimization, and data pipeline engineering.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
html10
mediarecorder10
webtorrent10
javascript10
webrtc10
nodejs8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
gitsummore/nile.js
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Scalable peer to peer live video streaming built on torrents and webRTC
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:167 commits, 44 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on implementing features for live video streaming. They developed components for capturing and uploading video using getUserMedia, MediaRecorder, and WebTorrent. Additionally, they worked on the frontend interface by creating HTML elements and JavaScript functionality for starting and stopping video streams. Their work also involved posting webm videos to a node server using POST requests.
scalabletorrentsp2pwebrtcstreaming
derekmiranda/nile-is-landing
May 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:9 commits in 1 day
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